ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: THE COLONIAL WORLD
HIS3AAH
2016
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
This subject examines the histories that Aboriginal Australians made following British colonization. It offers students an overview of the long colonial relationship between Australian settlers and Aboriginal peoples, from violence and friendship on rural and urban frontiers, to museums, missions and contemporary unease over the meaning of 'Aboriginality' in Australian national identity. Subject material introduces students to the independent interactions of Aboriginal peoples across the South, as well as the controversial concepts of 'discovery' and 'first contact'. Students will trace the increasingly international reach of Aboriginal agency, resistance and political activism from the 1840s onwards.
School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Nadia Rhook
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: 30 credit points of second-year History and/or Art History
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: HIS2AAH
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Identify some ways historians show continuity and change in the contexts of the pastEnter text
- Activities:
- 1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point ; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Writing(Writing)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
02. In a team and individually investigate aspects of the histiography of a historical problem and frame a response in any one of a variety of historical genres
- Activities:
- 1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation; 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Speaking(Speaking)
- Writing(Writing)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
03. In a team and individually, assimilate historians' lines of argument and use of sources in relation to a particular historian problem placing all in their time and context
- Activities:
- 1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Speaking(Speaking)
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
04. In a team create a properly referenced talk using primary and secondary sources to frame an argument about the past
- Activities:
- 1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Speaking(Speaking)
05. In a team present a properly reference power point presentation using primary and secondary sources to frame a line of argument about an apect of the past
- Activities:
- 1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Teamwork(Teamwork)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Speaking(Speaking)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
06. Individually identify schools of thought in historical inquiry, and apply and analyse them in a particular historical inquiry
- Activities:
- 1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Writing(Writing)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
07. Write properly referenced individual essays using primary and secondary sources to frame a line of argument about an aspect of the past
- Activities:
- 1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Writing(Writing)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Melbourne, 2016, 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 element | Comments | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 x 2500 word self-directed individual research essay [abstracts/ annotated bibliography MANDATORY] | 50 | 01, 02, 03, 06, 07 | |
| one 10 minute team power point presentation | Equivalent to 200 words of assessment | 20 | 02, 03, 04 |
| one 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point | 25 | 01, 02, 06, 07 | |
| one 2 minute oral presentation as part of a 10 minute team power point presentation | equivalent to 50 words of assessment | 5 | 02, 03, 04, 05 |