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HSTY2700: What Do We Want? Protest in Australia
2022 unit information
The unit follows Australian protest movements across the last century. We will examine struggles over labour rights and working conditions in the 1900s, womens suffrage, Aboriginal land rights, race relations and the White Australia Policy, homelessness during the Great Depression, freedom of speech during the Cold War, the Vietnam Moratorium and sexual liberation in the 1970s, the environmental movement, refugees and asylum seekers, and LGBT rights today. In the process we will explore changing ideas about government, community and identity while conducting individual research projects through local archives.
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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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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. introduce you to some of the aspects of the national past that remain contested ground in contemporary scholarly and political debates
- LO2. gain from this unit a body of knowledge about Australian history and an in depth study of the principles, practices and boundaries of history as a discipline
- LO3. strengthen your oral and written communication skills and your ability to acquire and evaluate new knowledge through independent research
- LO4. learn how to identify, investigate and solve problems, to locate, access and use information using appropriate media, tools and methodologies
- LO5. have developed your ability to participate in discussion and argument and to work collaboratively with others
- LO6. develop the skills you need to read written primary sources such as letters, legal documentation, literature and newsprint, but also visual and oral, including silent film, art, architecture, photography and oral history
- LO7. gain an understanding of how the historiographical catagories of 'immigrant', 'indigenous,' 'citizen' and 'other' emerged and are debated in Australian society
- LO8. you will have developed your ability to assess historiographical questions and develop historiographical arguments using primary and secondary sources
- LO9. you will be able to conduct an original research project, strengthening your skills as an independent learner and researcher
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