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Urban Legends: The History of Sydney - HIST3103
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the HIST2000 level;
 
 
Equivalent: AUST2022, AUST3103, HIST2100
 
 
Excluded: HIST2100
 
 
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.

Note: Includes excursions to key historic Sydney areas.


Learning Outcomes

Students who actively participate in and successfully complete the course will:
  • Gain an overall understanding of the development of Sydney and where it fits into the history of cities worldwide
  • Grasp the relationships between broad environmental, economic, social and cultural factors (including race, class, gender, popular and respectable culture, media, technology) and urban development, both physical and social
  • Be critically conversant with a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches and their application to urban studies - including neo-Marxist, feminist, cultural history and post-modernist approaches; architecture and planning, historical archaeology, oral history, environmental history and art history
  • Gain skills in primary and secondary research, analysis and writing
  • Develop an appreciation of the wonders, difficulties, benefits and inequities of urban life and city growth
  • Know that most phases of city making leave a material legacy, which can be visited and learned from.

Assessment

  • Major project (3000-3500 words) - 45%
  • Major project precis and bibliography - 5%
  • Seminar paper (1000-1500 words) - 25%
  • Seminar participation - 25%

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