LAW5493 · Law and history

Overview

This unit explores the interactions between law and history. In this unit you will explore approaches to the study of law and history, and be asked to think critically about the law’s impact on history and history’s impact on law.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply advanced knowledge and demonstrated understanding of issues and topics in law and history.
2. Critically analyse and persuasively evaluate key concepts in law and history, contextualised within a broad range of practice, policy and theoretical perspectives.
3. Undertake research in order to analyse and synthesise complex information in response to complex issues relating to law and history.
4. Demonstrate engaging, detailed, and persuasive communication across a range of topics in law and history.

Workload

24 contact hours per teaching period (either intensive, semi-intensive or semester long, depending on the Faculty resources, timetabling and requirements). You will be expected to do reading set for class, and to undertake additional research and reading applicable to a 6 credit point unit.

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