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Inventing Australia: Race, Nation, Identity, 1901-1949 - HIST2027
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History
 
 
Contact: Balint,Ruth
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: AUST2019
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 

Description

Examines the changing myths, ideas, visions, prejudices and debates through which Australians experienced themselves, others and the world during the first half of the twentieth century. Themes include the making of a White Australia, ideas of nationhood, invasion fears, the experience of Indigenous Australians, sex, disease, housewives, new forms of cinema, slums, cities and work.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this course, students will:
  • be more reflective about the Australian past, and importantly the legacy of this past in Australian society and politics
  • interrogate the society around them from an historical perspective and engage in current debates about contemporary issues in an historically informed way
  • develop a greater sensitivity about the diversity of the Australian experience
  • develop skills of critical analysis in terms of both academic and popular constructions of the Australian past
  • build new approaches to writing, reading and interpreting history
  • develop an historical imagination and have fun with history.

Assessment

  • Weekly reading evaluation - 20%
  • Research Essay (3000 words) - 40%
  • Tutorial participation - 20%
  • In-class test - 20%

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