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Urban Legends: The History of Sydney - AUST3103
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ugoutlines.html
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at Level 2 in Australian Studies
 
 
Equivalent: AUST2022, HIST2100, HIST3103
 
 
Excluded: AUST2022
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Explores Sydney's dramatic transformation from a tiny preindustrial penal settlement to a sprawling city of over four million people by examining the interplay of natural, cultural and spatial histories in the broader context of urban history and historiography. Themes include Sydney's environmental, Aboriginal, immigrant and gendered histories, 'slums' and suburbs, communities and sub-cultures, heritage and modernity, sex and food, the creation and impact of urban images.

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