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HIST13019 - The Lucky Country? The Political Economy of Australian History

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Unit Synopsis

Is Australia a lucky country and has that luck run out? In this unit you will examine the political and economic history of Australia from before colonisation to the present day. The topics that you will explore include health, education, housing, work, and transport. Key episodes to be studied include First Nations' economies, the gold rushes, Federation debates, the impact of the Depression, and the Whitlam reforms. As a political and economic history, your investigation engages with current frontiers of Indigenous historiography and ongoing political and economic debates. At the completion of this unit, you will have a firm grounding in Australia's political and economic history and an understanding of the essential literature.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: Minimum of 18 credit points

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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Attendance Requirements

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate 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. Annotated bibliography 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. Collect and critically evaluate relevant scholarly texts and published scholarly criticism using initiative and judgement
  2. Offer critical syntheses of contending positions in Australian historiography dealing with topics of health, housing, work, transport and education
  3. Discern qualitative shifts in the drivers of historical change across discrete periods of Australian history
  4. Engage in immanent critique of the extant scholarship on the intersection of politics and economy in Australian history.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Annotated bibliography • •
2 - Presentation • • • •
3 - Essay • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • •
8 - Ethical practice •
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
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