HIST211 Modern China
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Asian Studies or History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Total of 36 hours of lectures and tutorials.
This unit will provide students with an understanding of the Chinese past over the last 200 years and will build upon the introductory units. It aims to provide a specific China focus within the discipline of History.
HIST212 Modern Japan
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Asian Studies or History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Total of 36 hours of lectures and tutorials.
This unit will provide students with an understanding of the Japanese past over the last 300 years. Beginning at the Tokugawa shogunate, the unit will trace the transformation of Japan through the Meiji restoration and up to the Second World War and the post-war Japanese “economic miracle” and social change.
HIST213 Pacific History
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours of lectures, tutorials and seminars per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit covers the history of the peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. It surveys the origins of Pacific peoples, pre-colonial societies, European intrusion, indigenous responses to strangers, trade and religious interactions, labour recruiting and indenture, patterns of colonial rule, responses to colonialism and change in Pacific island societies, pathways to independence, and the economic, social, ethnic political and environmental issues facing independent Pacific nations.
HIST214 Immigrants in Australian History
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Australian Studies unit at introductory 100-level or 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours of lectures and tutorials per week.
Explores some of the background contexts both overseas and in Australia which stimulated different phases and stages of migration history. A framework is built for studying patterns of interaction and change which developed in different regions of Australia from the impact of immigrants. Case studies are established for the variety of patterns which developed at different stages of Australia’s history of migration. Sources and forms of argument in historical inquiry are examined.
HIST215 Later Modern Europe
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours of lectures and tutorials per week
This unit will study Europe between 1789 and 1945. It will include a critical understanding of the development of European liberalism and the movements for parliamentary democracy in Europe and the development of the “German problem” in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The development and impact of the Industrial Revolution in the Nineteenth Century and the significance of the secularisation of the European Mind in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries will also be considered. The causes of the Two World Wars and the rise Fascism will also be covered.
HIST216 Medieval Europe
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week of lectures and tutorials.
This unit involves the study and analysis of the period generally known as the ‘Middle Ages’; that is, from the breakdown of the Roman Empire to the early Renaissance. It examines the social, economic, cultural, political and religious developments and tensions within an emerging Europe from the end of the Roman Empire around 450 AD to the eve of the Renaissance around 1450 AD.
HIST218 Women in Australian History
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Australian Studies, History or Gender Studies unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours of lectures and tutorials per week.
This unit involves the study of the establishment of a broad historical sense of the changing experience and status of women in Aboriginal Australia before European settlement, and through colonial and modern times in a variety of cultural and ethnic contexts. It builds a sense of women's experience in both Aboriginal and white Australia. Specific case studies in different cultural, social, economic and other settings in Australia are used, and students will draw together a comparative feminist critique from these specific case studies. The unit also explores issues of historical sources approaches, including oral history and ways of interpretation.
HIST219 History and Cultures of Southeast Asia
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Asian Studies or History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Total of 36 hours of lectures and tutorials.
This unit builds upon the foundation of the introductory units with the aim of providing more detailed case studies of the specific experience of Southeast Asian nations from the colonial to the post-colonial era. It will consider cultural, social, economic and political change.
HIST222 Ancient Greece 750BC – 404BC
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours of lectures and tutorials per week.
This unit involves a survey of the history of Athens and Sparta, examining their early independent affairs and their subsequent inter–dependence that culminated in the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 BC. Subject areas to be studied include the development of social and political systems in Sparta and Athens in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, the Persian Wars, the growth of Athenian influence through the Delian league, and the Peloponnesian War and its repercussions.
HIST224 Rise of the United States
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation A combination of 2 one-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial.
This unit traces the development of the United States from a small world power at the end of the Civil War until its emergence as a modern superpower. Studies include the changing nature of federal/state power relations, the emergence of the modern presidency and the roles of gender and race in shaping modern American society.
HIST225 US Foreign Policy Since 1945
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation A combination of 2 one-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial.
This unit traces the development of the foreign policy of the United States from the end of World War II through the Cold War and into the post-11 September 2001 era.
HIST226 Contemporary World History
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Total of 36 hours of lectures and tutorials.
This unit will survey of the ethnic, social, political, religious, economic and technological forces which have shaped the contemporary world, with particular emphasis on the post-Second World war period. Students will examine such issues as the technological and “green” revolutions, the rise of nationalism and the break-up of European colonial empires in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the emergence of the developing countries, urbanisation patterns throughout the world, ethnic and religious conflict, the rise of militant Islam and globalisation. Case studies will be used, such as Indo-China and the Middle East.
HIST227 Human Rights in History
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials and/or workshops.
This unit examines the historical significance of the global search for social justice and human rights. Debates about Human Rights now play vital roles in the international conversations on trade, diplomacy, and peace. The search for social justice is recognised as impinging on the economic, social and political development of every nation. While focussing primarily on questions raised by events in the last 100 years, the unit will explore the evolution of notions of equality and the search for human dignity since the eighteenth century.
HIST228 Australian Popular Culture
10 cp
Prerequisites 1 History or Australian Studies unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, weekly seminars, films, videos, visits.
This unit raises fundamental questions and analysing aspects of popular culture in Australia, examining such matters as sport, leisure, “popular” arts, media and entertainment, humour and social rituals. It is designed to examine how general principles of popular cultural formation are manifested within Australia and analyses the production and maintenance of such cultures. The focus is on the ‘ordinary’, the sum of practices as well as the ideas constituting a people’s way of life.
HIST308 Historiography
10 cp
Prerequisites At least 2 History units at advanced 200/300-level
Teaching Organisation A combination of a one-hour lecture and a two-hour seminar.
This unit covers the development of Western historiography, examines various approaches to the writing of history, and discusses the assumptions about the nature of history in contemporary society.
