SETTLERS AND ABORIGINES

ABS2SAB

2015

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject students will analyse the relationship between settler Australians and Aboriginal people in the light of historical knowledge and through the lens of critical whiteness studies. Life writing, oral history and documentary sources will expose students to settler Australian and Aboriginal perspectives on interactions between these communities over time. Case studies in education, health, housing, justice and employment will enable students to evaluate how acts of government reflected theories of race and had differential impact upon settler Australian and Aboriginal communities, with emphasis upon rural and regional experience.

School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Jennifer Jones

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 2 - UG

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Completion of either a first year Aboriginal Studies or History subject

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: ABS3SAB, HIS2AAH, HIS3AAH

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Identify and reflect on the use of primary sources, the student's own, and other historians'

Activities:
One 1000 tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1000 word reading journal on set reading content

02. Identify the balance of continuity and change in a past, and show how present contexts, including their own, can alter views of a past.

Activities:
One 1000 tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1000 word reading journal on set reading content

03. Reflect on strengths and weaknesses of other historians' accounts or of the historiography when constructing their own historical account.

Activities:
One 1000 tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1000 word reading journal on set reading content

04. Review disciplinary skills in the context of a history inquiry directed to a specific audience.

Activities:
One 1000 tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1000 word reading journal on set reading content

05. Write responses to an aspect of the past which offer a sustained line of argument or narrative, referenced in an accomplished manner, which respond to many secondary and primary sources.

Activities:
One 1000 tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1000 word reading journal on set reading content

Bendigo, 2015, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Jennifer Jones

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%ILO*
1000 word equivalent in-class test2001, 02, 04, 05
One 1000 word tutorial paper3003, 05
One 2000 word essay5001, 02, 03, 04, 05

Shepparton, 2015, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Jennifer Jones

Class requirements

TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%ILO*
1000 word equivalent in-class test2001, 02, 04, 05
One 1000 word tutorial paper3003, 05
One 2000 word essay5001, 02, 03, 04, 05