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HSTY2630: Panics and Pandemics
2021 unit information
What is a panic and how does it spread? This unit explores contagious fears and fear of contagion through the ages. From Black Death to Covid-19, the spread of infectious diseases has tapped deeper fears and paralleled earlier panics, whether of apocalypse and eternal punishment, foreign invasion or domestic subversion, disaster or vice. This unit places outbreaks of feverish fear into historical context, exploring dubious cures, measured responses and drastic reactions that fall unevenly on vulnerable populations.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in the History major or 6 credit points at 1000 level from the History major and 6 credit points at 1000 level from the (Sociology or Social Policy or Gender Studies or Cultural Studies or International Relations or English or Art History or Studies in Religion or History and Philosophy of Science) majors |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an understanding of the global history of pandemics from the eighteenth century to the present
- LO2. Demonstrate an understanding of the range of interpretive frameworks with which pandemic disease may be understood
- LO3. Demonstrate familiarity with identifying and interpreting written, oral, visual, digital and material primary sources and secondary materials such as monographs, scholarly articles, podcasts, websites and documentaries
- LO4. Examine historical subjects by undertaking research that begins with a problem, establishes context, and uses effective methodologies to prosecute a sound argument
- LO5. Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative within a range of genres and contexts
- LO6. Develop the capacity to deploy historical reasoning to present experience
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