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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the HIST2000 level
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Excluded: HIST2070
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Description
Examines how European contact with the Pacific transformed the lives of its inhabitants and raised fundamental questions about the nature of humankind. Concentrating on the period of the Spanish conquistadors to Australian pre-war colonial rule in Papua New Guinea especially the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on insights from both anthropologists and historians, the course explores the nature of the 'contact' experience and the Pacific response to the arrival of the Europeans.
Learning Outcomes
Students will develop a greater appreciation of:
- Global issues viewed from a Pacific perspective and will be encouraged to consider the ways in which different peoples seek to understand each other together with the problems of evidence and method associated with such perspectives (The course will thus promote an appreciation of, and respect for, diversity together with a capacity to contribute to, and work within, the international community)
- The techniques required to interrogate a variety of source materials to explain the problems and advantages of working with each, and to describe their role in the process of historical explanation (By so doing the course will promote the skills required to locate, evaluate and use relevant information)
- The need to distinguish narrative from interpretation, and to demonstrate the function of each (Linked to this will be the promotion of a greater independence of judgement in dealing with conflicting interpretations on major issues and the ability to engage in independent and reflective learning)
- Ways of demonstrating critical and analytical skills in the handling of both primary and secondary sources, and of deploying such sources to sustain clear and valid arguments both in writing and in discussion.
Assessment
- Research essay (3000 words) - 30%
- Tutorial exercises - 40%
- Class participation - 10%
- In-class test - 20%
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