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HISTORY HONOURS SPECIAL SUBJECT 2

HIS4SS2

2020

Credit points: 30

Subject outline

Students undertake an intensive, specialised study of history and/or methodology in a weekly seminar. The emphasis is on understanding primary sources through advanced conceptual frameworks and on developing individual research questions. Assessment is variable, but may include historiographical reviews, seminar presentations and research essay(s).

School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 30

Subject Co-ordinator:

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Enrolment in AHA -Bachelor of Arts Honours degree

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Collaborate to reflect critically and explicitly on the use of primary sources in a student's inquiry and/or to contrast historians' lines of arguments and use of sources on a historical problem, placing them in their contexts.
02. Present orally or in multimedia an aspect of the past which offers a sustained line of argument or narrative, referenced in accomplished ways, that assimilates a wide variety of primary and secondary sources.
03. When constructing their own historical account, find and reflect explicitly on the strengths and weaknesses of other historians' accounts.
04. When constructing their own historical account, find primary sources (visual and/or textual and reflect explicitly on their use.
05. Write a sustained historical argument or narrative based on primary sources (visual and/or textual which also engages with scholarly debates in the field.

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 2, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator:

Class requirements

SeminarWeek: 31 - 43
One 2.00 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via video conference.
2 hour seminar on specialised subject which forms 25% of coursework mark. While most special subjects are run from Bundoora, one special subject per year is normally held in Bendigo.

Assessments

Assessment elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

Historiographical review essay (1000 words)

N/AN/AN/ANo20SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO5

Research essay (6000 words)

N/AN/AN/ANo70SILO3, SILO4, SILO5

Seminar presentation (1000 words)

N/AN/AN/ANo10SILO1, SILO2