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HSTY1003: Birth of the Present: The World Since 1750
2025 unit information
Enlightenment and oppression, colonisation and decolonisation, the making and unmaking of nation states and the forging and unravelling of global relationships: the history of the modern world is a history of contradiction, crisis, despair and optimism. Linking social, cultural, political, environmental and economic histories in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this unit poses the question: what, in these different places, did it mean to be modern
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of historical developments in various parts of the world from roughly 1700 to the present
- LO2. demonstrate critical reading skills of secondary source material
- LO3. analyse primary sources in relation to other accumulated knowledge
- LO4. articulate responses to unit readings in the company of other students
- LO5. search for primary and secondary sources in response to a guided research question
- LO6. write a research essay proposal
- LO7. complete a research essay using primary source materials.
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Intensive June - July 2024
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Intensive June - July 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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