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HIST28003 Predicting the Past: Approaches to History and Historiography

Predicting the Past: Approaches to History and Historiography

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Overview

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

Career Level: Postgraduate

Unit Level: Level 8

Credit Points: 6

Student Contribution Band: 10

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).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

Online

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).