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HSTY3804: American History
2025 unit information
American history is as contested as contemporary American culture and politics. This seminar will explore a key theme or debate drawn from more than four centuries of American history. In a setting that may be local or regional, inward- or outward-looking, you will develop advanced research skills to investigate critical relationships between the past and the present.
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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 2000 level in 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. Demonstrate expert knowledge of period, place or culture in American history
- LO2. Demonstrate expert understanding of a variety of approaches to interpreting American history, and skilfully employ and manipulate such approaches in their own work
- LO3. Skilfully analyse and interpret both primary evidence and secondary literature
- LO4. Work both independently and collaboratively to develop and refine historical understanding and awareness
- LO5. Demonstrate capacity to integrate Indigenous and non-Western perspectives on the past and understand how axes of inequality (such as gender and racial inequalities) have been historically constructed
- LO6. Demonstrate the skills needed to construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in written, oral, visual, or digital form
- LO7. Demonstrate sophisticated information and digital literacy in research
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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