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HIST19036 - Local History & Heritage

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Local History & Heritage introduces students to a popular, specialised area of the History discipline in the study of local history in an Australian context. The course examines the emergence of this genre of historical investigation, its nature and methodology and explores how local history is shaped by the physical, economic, socio-cultural and political contexts of a particular geographical setting as well as reflecting themes of national history. The course also provides an introduction to heritage studies in considering the meaning of ?heritage? and providing some basic skills for researching, reading and documenting the historical significance of a local building, cultural site or landscape in such contexts as a heritage listing application or an environmental planning assessment. Students will be required to visit local archives and undertake some fieldwork associated with their chosen research project.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level Not Applicable
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 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 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. Written Assessment 70%
2. Written Assessment 30%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2013 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 61.54% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Moodle
Feedback
A few students would prefer their assignments marked using track changes rather than hand written feed back.
Recommendation
I can mark essays using track changes.
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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. demonstrate an understanding of the concepts and methodology of local history and heritage study as practiced in Australia
  2. demonstrate an understanding of how local history and heritage reflects the physical, economic, socio-cultural and political context of a particular setting and how it relates to broader Australian history
  3. research, interpret and document the history of a local group, organisation, community, event, building, cultural site or landscape, and to recognise possible contested cultural significance
  4. prepare a heritage report, with reference to the relevant legislation.
  5. demonstrate ways in which local history and heritage assessment may pose questions of ethical action and social responsibility
  6. demonstrate the following generic skills:

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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