Australia 1788-1900: Invasion to White Australia - ARTS2270
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1; or 24 units of credit and enrolment in an Australian Studies minor in Arts/Law (4782) or a History extended minor in Arts/Education (4053)
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: History
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Australian Studies
Controversies regularly erupt in Australia over issues where identity and justice intersect: who should be granted asylum? how can the rights of Indigenous peoples be fully respected? how should Australia relate to Asia? In this course you will explore how these issues were fostered by the major themes of Australia’s 19th century history: the settler revolution, Indigenous dispossession and resistance, and the rise of scientific racism on the one hand; movements towards democracy, universal education and better living standards on the other. Tensions arising from these themes are common to all settler societies but Australia’s location at the edge of Asia means they were played out here with a distinctive sense of urgency whose reverberations persist.