History is a discipline rooted in ancient intellectual traditions and responsive to scholarly innovations in method and approach. This course will expose students to a wide range of methods, themes and approaches in current historical research practice (which may include biographical, cultural, environmental, gender, indigenous, international, intellectual, legal, military, oral, political, popular, post-colonial, public, social, and technological history) and address questions of method and theory. It will focus, as well, on relevant interdisciplinary approaches, such as historical memory studies and ethnohistory. Central to all historical practice is the archive. Through critical readings and workshops, the course will provide opportunities for students to engage with the question of how to construct an archive for their own research projects.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- enhance their understanding and appreciation of historical approaches both within and beyond their fields of specialisation;
- develop their capacity to formulate historiographical questions and to contribute to scholarly discussions;
- develop a clearer sense of the historiographical schools and scholarly debates to which their own work will contribute;
- develop a critical understanding of debates about historical archives and evidence;
- articulate in writing their critical understandings of a range of historiographical schools, scholarly debates, and methodological issues, and explicate how it relates to their own research project; and
- construct an annotated listing or database of archival and other original materials for their research project, and explicate in writing key interpretative methods and challenges.
Indicative Assessment
- Participation in seminars (assessed by the course convenor) (20) [LO 1,2,3]
- Historiographical essay - 5000 words (assessed by student's primary HDR supervisor) (50) [LO 3,5]
- Archives/sources essay - 2500 words (assessed by student's primary HDR supervisor) (30) [LO 4,6]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) Compulsory attendance at a week-long intensive involving 8 x 2-hour seminars (16 hours)
b) Compulsory attendance at two short workshops (8 hours)
c) Contribution to online forums, including posing discussion questions, based on assigned readings (6 hours)
d) Independent student reading, research, and writing (100 hours)
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
No prescribed texts
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2020 | $4800 |
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First Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4455 | 01 Jan 2020 | 01 Jan 2020 | 31 Mar 2020 | 30 Jun 2020 | In Person | N/A |
