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HIST28003 - Predicting the Past: Approaches to History and Historiography

General Information

Unit Synopsis

What is history? How do historians know what is? This unit will equip you with the knowledge required to offer responses to these questions by surveying critical perspectives in historical inquiry through the lens of strategic debates in historiography – the history of histories. Key orientations in historical inquiry to be surveyed include liberal, conservative, historical materialist, feminist, structuralist/post-structuralist and decolonial/post-colonial approaches. Each orientation in historical inquiry will be interrogated in relation to strategic debates between and within these contending approaches, meaning that students first consider how and why the questions informing historical inquiry are derived, before reflecting on the consequences for the present differing interpretations of history. By successfully completing the advanced coursework in this unit, you will gain the requisite analytical foundations of historical inquiry for professional practice or further tertiary study.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Admission to CC10 or completion of 90 credit points in CA10, CB94, CC13, CG85, CC24 or CC43.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Presentation 30%
3. Essay 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify key methodological orientations that inform dominant approaches in historical inquiry
  2. Offer an immanent critique of one or more approaches to historical inquiry as demonstrated by one or more interlocutors in historiography
  3. Critically evaluate contending methodological approaches to historical inquiry
  4. Demonstrate the ability to deploy rigorously one or more approaches to historical inquiry.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
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4 - Research •
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
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