mds3hoh history of histories
A HISTORY OF HISTORIES
MDS3HOH
2017
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject, students focus on the forms of histories as they emerged in the ancient Greek and Roman eras, and/or in medieval-to-early-modern eras (whether Pagan, Catholic, Orthodox or Islamic). The historians you choose to study might include Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Eusebius, Procopius, Gregory of Monmouth, Froissart, Commynes, Bruni, Ibn Khaldun, Valla and Guiccardini. After an overview, students will choose to focus (across any two eras) on change either in the genres of histories of states and empires at war, or of annals or chronicles, or of biography and memoir, or of ethnography. Whatever the two eras chosen, students conclude their study with an in-depth analysis of change in genre, agendas, audience, tropes and sources, or of contrast in how histories compared to forms of biography, ethnography, art, religious rites or values, or architecture evident then.
SchoolSchool of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorAdrian Jones
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites Any second-year subject in either Archaeology, Mediterranean Studies or History.
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | A History of Histories | Prescribed | John Burrow | Allen Lane/Penguin or Knopf |
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Demonstrate an understanding of at least one period or culture of the past.
- Activities:
- Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
02. Show how history and historians shape the present and can contribute to envisaging new futures.
- Activities:
- Lectures, Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
03. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of conceptual approaches to interpreting the past.
- Activities:
- Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
04. Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.
- Activities:
- Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
05. Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
- Activities:
- Lectures, Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
06. Identify and reflect critically upon the knowledge and skills developed in their study of history.
- Activities:
- Lectures, Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Critical Thinking,Inquiry/Research)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
Subject options
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Melbourne, 2017, Semester 2, Blended
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Enrolment information
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorAdrian Jones
Class requirements
Lecture/SeminarWeek: 31 - 35
Five 2.0 hours lecture/seminar per study period on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 35 and delivered via face-to-face.
TutorialWeek: 36 - 43
Seven 1.0 hours tutorial per study period on weekdays during the day from week 36 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
Scheduled Online ClassWeek: 31 - 43
Twelve 1.0 hours scheduled online class per study period on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via online.
Assessments
| Assessment element | Comments | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four suites of weekly in-class task responses (1,000-word equivalent) | 20 | 01, 03, 05, 06 | |
| Written or multimedia reading of a single passage in a historian's work (1,000-word equivalent) | 30 | 01, 03, 04, 05 | |
| Major research essay on an historian or genre of historiography (2,000-word equivalent) | 50 | 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 |