ATS2884 · Changing history

Overview

What is the purpose of studying History, and how has the academic discipline of History changed over time? In this unit, you will examine the professional practice of History and the different approaches, theoretical preoccupations and philosophical debates that shape the discipline. You will engage with examples drawn from Monash historians’ expertise in the histories of Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe, in a range of periods. You will explore the influence of social, intellectual and political developments, e.g., decolonisation, feminism, and the linguistic, spatial and material turns in social and cultural history, global history and environmental history. By engaging with different perspectives on the past, including Indigenous and First Nations approaches to history-making, you will deepen your understanding of what it means to decolonise historical inquiry.

Areas of study: History

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessments: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Identify and analyse critically the methods employed by different historians in the past and present;
2. identify and analyse critically influential historiographical trends and theoretical frameworks for the research and writing of history;
3. construct and sustain arguments in oral and written form;
4. work collaboratively with peers.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours for a 6 credit point unit per teaching period typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.