Course

History and Ethnology: Native Peoples of the Americas - ARTS3151

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities

Course Outline: School of Humanities Course Outlines

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in either the History or Americas Studies streams

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: Americas Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: History

This course focuses on the experiences of indigenous people of the Americas in the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian periods. Topics include the origins of the First Nations, modes of production pre-European contact (hunter gatherers, early agriculturalists), the formation of class societies, cities and empires (including the Maya, Aztecs and Incas), belief systems, responses to the European invasions (flight, resistance, adaption) both in the colonial and post colonial periods, up until contemporary political and social movements. Case studies are used from many areas of the Western hemisphere including North America, Mesoamerica and South America. In particular, the course addresses the methodological and theoretical difficulties of writing the histories of First Nations. To this end, special emphasis is placed on the analysis of First Nations' texts.


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