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.