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History 1
Enrolment code: HTA100
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: Students who wish to enrol in this unit on a semester basis
should use enrolment codes HTA103 (sem 1) and HTA104 (sem 2)
Unit description: Provides an introduction to history focusing on key themes
in the making of the modern world. Students complete ‘The Impact of Europe c.
1640–1780’ in semester 1 and one of modules (a) or (b) in semester 2.
Semester 1 – The Impact of Europe c. 1640–1780 considers developments in
Europe from the late 17th to the late 18th century and their role in the making
of the modern world. Topics include: the rise of the major European powers;
war, politics and state-building; imperial expansion and rivalry; social change
in Britain and France; the Enlightenment; and the dawn of the Age of
Revolution.
Semester 2 – (a) Age of Revolution and Empire c.1780–1815 focuses on
‘revolutionary’ change in Britain and France in the late 18th and early 19th
century, and its impact on the wider world. It considers the French Revolution;
radicalism and reaction in Britain; Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars; French
and British imperialism; the Industrial Revolution and social change; the ‘birth
of the modern’.
(b) The Modern World in Australia to 1860 traces the evolution of the
rudimentary penal settlement founded by Arthur Philip in 1788, and self
governing colonies in the mid-nineteenth century. Attention is given to the
nature of convictism and the forces which increasingly challenged a ‘convict
society’; the crisis in Aboriginal–European relations resulting from the impact
of British colonisation on Australia’s Indigenous people; and the movement for
self government and democracy in the era of the Gold Rushes and the Eureka
Stockade, when both new opportunities and daunting challenges are opened to
the Australian people as Australia moves into the modern age in the 1850s.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett, Dr M Lindley, Dr J Whiteman, Mr GP Chapman
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA101, HTA102, HTA103, HTA104, HTA105, HTA106
Assess: written work 3,000 words each semester (45%), tutorial participation
(5%), 2-hr exam in June, 2-hr exam in Nov (50%)
Required texts, etc:
sem 1
[p/b] Bennett MJ (ed), The Impact of Europe: Selected Readings, School of History
& Classics, UTas
[p/b] Williams EN, The Ancien Regime in Europe, Penguin
[p/b] Woloch I, Eighteenth-Century Europe. Tradition and Progress,
1715-1789, Norton
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Sem 2
(a) [p/b] Bennett MJ (ed) The Age of Revolution and Empire 1780–1820: Selected
Readings, School of History & Classics, UTas
[p/b] Breunig C The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789–1850, Norton
[p/b] Hobsbawm EH, The Age of Revolution 1789–1848, Abacus
(b) There will be a specially prepared book of readings
[p/b] Clark M, A Short History of Australia, Mentor
[p/b] Daniels K, Convict Women
[p/b] McQueen H, A New Britannia, Penguin
Robson LL, The Convict Settlers of Australia, Melb UP
[p/b] Reynolds H, The Law of the Land, Penguin.
Courses: R3A R3K S3G S3T
History 1
Enrolment code: HTA101
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; NWC, sem 1&2
Special note: Module (b) is for Launceston students only. Distance and NWC
students complete module (a) only. Students who wish to enrol in this unit on a
semester basis should use the enrolment codes HTA105 (sem 1) and HTA106
(sem 2)
Unit description: Provides an introduction to history focusing on key themes
in the making of the modern world. Students complete ‘The History of Europe
from c. 1620 to 1789’ in semester 1 and one of (a) or (b) in semester 2.
Semester 1 –The History of Europe from c 1620 to 1789 introduces European
history focusing on the 1620 to 1789 period. Topics include the English Civil
War, France’s impact on western Europe during Louis XIV’s reign; the Scientific
and Intellectual Revolutions; European overseas expansion, including the
American Revolution; the emergence of Russia and Prussia as major powers; an
analysis of the Ancient Regime in France and the outbreak of the French
Revolution.
Semester 2 – (a) The Impact of Europe from the French Revolution to the
American Civil War focuses on the emergence of modernity within both the
European metropole and peripheral European societies, especially the United
States. The reciprocal influences of the European centre and the periphery on
each other are emphasised. Among the topics to be studied are the nature and
influence of both the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution; the rise
of modern nationalism; and the impact of total war. Particular attention is paid
to the ways in which these factors intertwined to begin the creation of our
‘modern’ world. (b) The Modern World in Australia to 1860 traces the
evolution of the rudimentary penal settlement founded by Arthur Phillip in
1788, and self governing colonies in the mid-19th century. Attention is given to
the nature of convictism and the forces which increasingly challenged a ‘convict
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society’; the crisis in Aboriginal-European relations resulting from the impact of
British colonisation on Australia’s Indigenous people; and the movement for
self government and democracy in the era of Gold Rushes and the Eureka
Stockade, when both new opportunities and daunting challenges are opened to
the Australian people as Australia moves into the modern age in the 1850s.
Staff: Mr DJ Overton, Dr TP Dunning, Dr H Maxwell-Stewart
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA102, HTA103, HTA104, HTA105, HTA106
Assess: 3,000 words written work ea sem (45%), tutorial participation (5%), 2-hr
exam in June and Nov (50%)
Required texts, etc:
sem 2
Hobsbawm E, The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848, Abacus.
Courses: R3A R3K S3T
The Impact of Europe c. 1640–1780
Enrolment code: HTA103
Offered: Hbt, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: For description and reading list, see Semester 1 of HTA100.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett, Dr M Lindley
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA105, HTA106
Assess: written work 3,000 words (45%), tutorial participation (5%), 2-hr exam
in June (50%)
Courses: R3A R3K
History 1A
Enrolment code: HTA104
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: For description and reading list, see Semester 2 of HTA100.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett, Dr M Lindley, Mr GP Chapman
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA106
Assess: written work 3,000 words (45%), tutorial participation (5%), 2-hr exam
in Nov (50%)
Courses: R3A R3K
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(b) The Modern World in Australia to 1860
Enrolment code: HTA104
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Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: For description and reading list, see Semester 2 of HTA100.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett, Dr M Lindley, Mr GP Chapman
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA106
Assess: written work 3,000 words (45%), tutorial participation (5%), 2-hr exam
in Nov (50%)
Courses: R3A R3K
The History of Europe from c.<space>1620 to
1789
Enrolment code: HTA105
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; NWC, sem 1
Unit description: For description, see Semester 1 of HTA101.
Staff: Mr DJ Overton, Dr TP Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA103
Assess: 3,000 words written work (45%), tutorial participation (5%), 2-hr exam
in June (50%)
Courses: R3A R3K
History 1B
Enrolment code: HTA106
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; NWC, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: For description, see Semester 2 modules (a) and (b) of
HTA101. Note, however that Module (b) is for Launceston students only.
Distance and NWC students complete module (a) only.
Staff: Dr TP Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
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Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA104
Assess: 2.500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam in Nov
(50%)
Courses: R3A R3J R3K
(b) The Modern World in Australia to 1860
Enrolment code: HTA106
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Offered: Ltn, sem 2; NWC, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: For description, see Semester 2 modules (a) and (b) of
HTA101. Note, however that Module (b) is for Launceston students only.
Distance and NWC students complete module (a) only.
Staff: Dr TP Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Mutual excl: HTA100, HTA101, HTA102, HTA104
Assess: 2.500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam in Nov
(50%)
Courses: R3A R3J R3K
The Early Middle Ages: From Rome to the
Millennium AD 410–1000
Enrolment code: HTA201/301
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Unit description: From the end of the Roman empire to the tumultuous
‘barbarian’ invasions of the 10th century, the early Middle Ages saw Europe,
east and west, undergo fundamental cultural, religious and political change.
This unit examines the many histories of eastern and western Europe from AD
410–1000. Topics include the myths and memories of the barbarian invasions:
Christian colonisation of Europe; the Carolingian ‘renaissance’; the rise of Islam;
the empires of Charlemagne and Byzantium; Arthurian and Anglo-Saxon
Britain; the legends of the Vikings. On completing this unit, students should
have an understanding of the main changes to Europe from 410–1000; have a
grasp of the ways in which modern historians have shaped our ideas about the
medieval world; and be familiar with the main sources for the period from
Rome to the Millennium.
Staff: Dr M Cassidy-Welch
Unit weight: 25%
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Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2x2,500-word essays (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 3-hr exam in
Nov (50%)
Majors: History, Ancient Civilisations
Courses: R3A R3K
Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Enrolment code: HTA202/302
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Unit description: On the eve of the Black Death in 1348, Europe was still a
backward corner of the world. The following two centuries were an age of war
and upheaval, but also of creativity and development. The topics covered
include: the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and popular revolt;
Renaissance humanism and art; state-building and politics in the age of
Machiavelli; the late medieval Church, and the origins of the Reformation.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2,500-word essay (25%), 2,000-word essay (15%), tutorial participation
(10%), 3-hr exam in Nov (50%)
Required texts, etc:
tba
Majors: History, Ancient Civilisations
Courses: R3A R3K
Modern Europe 1815–1914
Enrolment code: HTA203/303
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: The years from the final defeat of Napoleon to the outbreak
of the First World War saw the development of the ideas and social forces
which still shape and colour our world. These are the years of the rise of
modern social classes, of socialism and feminism, of nationalism and racism.
They are years of revolt and of nation-building, of enormous technological
advances and of artistic and intellectual revolutions. Europe and the world
were transformed in the process. The unit examines these dramatic
developments across Europe, from Great Britain to Russia.
Staff: Dr M Lindley
Unit weight: 25%
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Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 1000-word tutorial paper (10%), 3,000-word essay (40%), tutorial
participation (10%), 3-hr exam (40%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Australia from the 1850s to 1918
Enrolment code: HTA204/304
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Explores what it was like to live and work in Australia from
the establishment of responsible government until the end of the First World
War, from the assertion of independence from Britain until the assertion of
national pride on the international stage. Within the framework of the making
of a nation and of a distinctively Australian identity, the unit takes a thematic
approach and examines broad political, economic, social, cultural and
environmental issues. The role of the working class, women, Aborigines, and
immigrants receive due consideration. Other subjects dealt with include leisure,
culture, sport, work, education, and religion. The themes are illustrated by
examples from all colonies, including Tasmania, as appropriate. The unit ends
by asking the questions: What kind of nation was Australia in 1918? Was the
war the key turning point or the last, if most important, stage in building the
nation and a distinctive Australian identity? Was there, in fact, anything
distinctive about Australians and the society they had created? Students
develop a familiarity with primary documents as well as major histriographical
debates.
Staff: Dr S Petrow
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HTA240/340
Assess: 2x2,500-word essays (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 3-hr exam
(50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Gender in European Thought
Enrolment code: HTA205/305
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
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Unit description: Europeans have expressed their ideas and beliefs about
gender and sexuality in a variety of ways which have differed over time. Those
beliefs have had an enormous effect on the way we live our lives. What beliefs
were held, at what times, and by whom? How were notions of gender and
sexuality shaped? The unit examines these issues in the context of persecutions
of women as witches and the policing of sexual preference.
Staff: Dr M Lindley
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HAF203/303
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Australia from 1918 to 1975
Enrolment code: HTA207/307
Offered: Hbt, sem 1; Ltn, sem 1
Unit description: Examines patterns of change and continuity, and conflict
and consensus in Australia from the end of World War I to the end of the
Whitlam years. Topics include, progressivism in the 1920s; Australia and the
world depression in the 1930s; the second world war and its implications for
Australia; economic and social transformations of the late 1940s and 50s,
especially the impact of Menzies and migration; exploration of how far the
1960s saw a social and cultural revolution in Australia; the impact of the
Whitlam government and social movements involving women, Aborigines, and
the greens.
Staff: Dr S Petrow, Dr H Maxwell-Stewart
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HTA240/340
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Europe in an Age of Crisis 1560–1640
Enrolment code: HTA209/309
Offered: dist.ed, sem 2
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Unit description: The late 16th and early 17th centuries were an age of crisis
in Europe. Population growth, price rises, taxation and war were creating social
unrest and political division, while religious division and cultural ferment were
undermining old certainties and values. This unit considers Spain under Philip
II, Elizabethan England, the French Wars of Religion, the Dutch revolt, and the
Thirty Years War, and focuses on changing social conditions and world views
as well as power politics.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Cold War Europe, 1945–1989
Enrolment code: HTA210/310
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: A political, social and economic study of Europe in the era
of the Cold War, from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin
Wall in 1989. Topics include: post-war reconstruction and the Marshall Plan; the
emergence of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe;
popular culture, social developments and rising prosperity in the West; the
nature and policies of the respective Western European and Eastern-Bloc
governments; the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the role of
espionage and subversion; popular dissent and governmental responses in the
East and West (eg Hungary 1956, the Prague Spring, and Paris 1968); the issue
of nuclear arms and their deployment; diplomacy within and between the
Western and Eastern States; efforts at European Integration through such
institutions as the European Community; the collapse of communism in Eastern
Europe and the ending of the Cold War.
Staff: Dr J Whiteman
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History or Political Science
Assess: 3,000-word essay (50%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
tba
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Europe at War 1914–1945
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Enrolment code: HTA211/311
Offered: Hbt, sem 1; Ltn, sem 1
Unit description: Between 1914 and 1945 Europe experienced two devastating
wars, a revolution of epic proportions and significance and a great depression.
The unit examines the forces of conflict within Europe from World War 1 to the
collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. It is concerned with the impact of the
Russian Revolution, the rise of European dictatorships and the crushing of the
Nazi regime.
Staff: Dr M Lindley
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Europe in the High Middle Ages, AD 1000–1300
Enrolment code: HTA212/312
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Studies the general history of Europe during the formative
period from the recovery after the last Barbarian invasions to the end of the
13th-century expansion. Special attention is given to the ‘Twelfth-Century
Renaissance’, with emphasis on such topics as the early development of the
modern nation state, growth of papal government, the Crusades and the origin
of universities.
Staff: Dr M Cassidy
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2x2,500-word essays (40%), tutorial performance (10%), 3-hr exam
(50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Revolution and Dissent
Enrolment code: HTA216/316
Offered: Not offered in 2001
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Unit description: Historical events both drive and are driven by powerful
beliefs. The unit considers some of the great historical dramas of European
societies and their colonies as expressions of power relations, of the enactment
of authority and rebellion, dissidence and reaction. It examines the millenarian
revolts and peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; the English,
American, French and Russian Revolutions; and the expression in political
action of anti-semitism, fascism and imperialism, with particular emphasis on
the Dreyfus Affair and today’s neo-fascism. What forms of activity do
particular beliefs take? How are beliefs practised?
Staff: Dr M Lindley
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HSA229/329
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Crime and the Law in Historical Perspective
Enrolment code: HTA218/318
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Examines the relations between crime and the law in
England and Australia from the middle ages to the present. The unit discusses
the origins of the criminal law system, the changing roles of state and
community in the regulation of conduct, and the changing nature and
definition of crime and criminal activity. It considers the history of the courts,
the police and the prison system, and the ways they define and deal with a
range of crimes and social problems over a broad period of time. The
assumption of the unit is that a knowledge of history fosters both an
understanding of, and a critical engagement with, the criminal justice system as
it operates today. Emphasis will be given to topics that bear on contemporary
issues, and, where appropriate and possible, to Tasmanian case studies.
Interested students will have the opportunity to conduct primary research on
aspects of the Tasmanian criminal justice system.
Staff: Prof MJ Bennett, Dr S Petrow, Ms J Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History or BLA101
Mutual excl: BLA618, HSP210/310
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
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Historiographical Studies
Enrolment code: HTA220/320
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Discourses methodological and philosophical issues in
historical research and writing. Issues of method will be approached through
study of the work of some historians who have given an account of what they
hoped to achieve in their research. Philosophical issues related to history are
approached in a preliminary and non-technical way, and it is not necessary for
students to have previously studied philosophy.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2-hr lecture-seminar weekly, 1-hr lecture fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2x1,000-word essays (30%), tutorial participation (20%), 2-hr exam
(50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Modern India till Independence
Enrolment code: HTA221/321
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Focuses on the formidable problems besetting India’s
emergence as a modern nation. It explores the formation of India’s national
identity during the colonial period, ending with its independence in 1947. It
also explores the growth of religious nationalism and ethnicity, challenging the
basis of the emerging nation. Many of these problems and challenges persisted
and plagued India’s critical nation-building efforts following independence.
HTA222/322 India since Independence is a natural extension of this unit and is
strongly recommended to students of HTA221/321.
Staff: Dr A Roy
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HMA204/304
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial performance (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
India since Independence
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Enrolment code: HTA222/322
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Though India’s national liberation movement is one of the
oldest and most experienced in colonial Asia and Africa, it shares with other
newly liberated countries the formidable problems and challenges of national
reconstruction. Perhaps the world’s oldest continuous civilisation, forming a
complex mosaic of enormous social and cultural diversities, and comprising the
world’s second largest population, facing serious problems of economic
development, India chose a democratic path to nation building and has
astonishingly earned the reputation of being the developing world’s ‘most
shining example’ of parliamentary democracy. What made this possible? Can
India, with her gigantic demographic, ethnic, social and economic pressures,
continue to maintain her democratic system, stability and global aspirations?
Issues such as these should remain the central concerns of this unit.
HTA221/321 Modern India till Independence is a direct antecedent of this unit,
and is strongly recommended to students of HTA222/322.
Staff: Dr A Roy
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HMA207/307
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial performance (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Asian Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Islam, Law and Women – Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives
Enrolment code: HTA223/323
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Explores the historical and contemporary situation of
Muslim women in the specific context of the interplay of religion and law in
Islam, with special reference to the vast Muslim world of South Asia. The
region provides an excellent comparative framework to explore the problems of
Muslim women, law and religion in the varying contexts of their secular and
Islamic constitutions on the one hand, and democratic and authoritarian
governments on the other. The explication of the general and theoretical issues
concerning religion, law and women in Islam will be grounded on historical
and empirical illustrations drawn largely from the three countries in this
region – India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The raging controversies surrounding
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Muslim Personal Law and the issue of Uniform Civil Code in relation to
women, including its underlying politics, will receive particular attention.
Staff: Dr A Roy
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HMA244/344, HAF260/360
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial performance (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Asian Studies, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Heresy and Inquisition in Medieval Europe AD
1100–1500
Enrolment code: HTA225/325
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: From 1100–1500, major forms of heresy and dissent emerged
in European society. During this period, there was a concomitant expansion of
institutions designed to deal with unorthodox beliefs. The unit traces the
growth of heretical movements in Europe, and explores the development of the
Inquisition – the most notorious means by which orthodox belief was asserted:
the Cathars, Waldensians and Albigensians and the rise of the mendicant
orders; the construction and demonisation of Jews, witches and lepers; the
influence of the Lollards and Hussites; and the Spanish Inquisition. Students
should develop an awareness of the religious and social structures that defined
‘mainstream’ and ‘heretical’ beliefs during the period 1100–1500, gain a critical
understanding of the ways in which ‘popular’ movements can challenge
orthodoxies, and identify the means by which medieval societies sought to deal
with dissent.
Staff: Dr M Cassidy, Prof MJ Bennett
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HAC252/353, FST263/363
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Cultural Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Spreading the Word: A History of Image and Text
Enrolment code: HTA226/326
Offered: Hbt, s-sch
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Unit description: The unit explores the history of communications – oral,
visual and written – in the western world from ancient to modern times. It
considers the print revolution and its consequences, and such forms of
communications as the pamphlet, the poster, the photograph, the newspaper
and the film. It is concerned, too, with media depictions of heroes and heroines,
wars and crimes, villains and saints, in increasingly complex societies.
Staff: Dr M Lindley, Prof MJ Bennett, Dr M Cassidy-Welch
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HEJ216/316, HAC210/310, FST291/391
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Journalism and Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Van Diemen’s Land 1642–1850
Enrolment code: HTA229/329
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Studies: the history of the colony of Van Diemen’s Land
from its discovery to self-government, relating interpretation of the historical
process to available sources; the evolution of the colony from a penal station
into a free society, paying close attention to the ‘fatal clash’ with the Aborigines,
and issues of crime, punishment and reform; the economic, cultural and
political development of the colony, culminating in the anti-transportation
movement and the achievement of self-government, relating the colony’s
history to the pattern of British control and management of her other colonies
during the period; and the historiography of the period, using contemporary
documents and other source material (particularly the rich colonial office
documents on microfilm) to analyse how historical accounts of the colony
developed.
Staff: Mr P Chapman
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 500-word survey paper (10%), 2,000-word research essay (35%), tutorial
participation (5%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History, Economics
Courses: R3A R3J R3K
Australian History 1788–1990s
Enrolment code: HTA240/340
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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Offered: dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: Explores some major themes in Australian history: the
founding of British Australia; convicts and convictism; Aboriginal responses to
European settlement; the gold rushes; the rise of the Labor Parties; Federation;
women; the Anzac Legend; the Great Depression; post-war immigration; the
Menzies era; the Whitlam Government; and Australia in the 1960s.
Staff: Dr S Petrow
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorials fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HTA204/304, HTA207/307
Assess: essay (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
History of the USA
Enrolment code: HTA241/341
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Provides an introduction to the social, cultural and political
history of the United States. Major themes include: initial culture contact among
Europeans, Africans and Amerindians; the development of colonial American
communities; an explanation of the American Revolution; an examination of the
economic and social re-ordering of 19th-century America; and a study of the
20th-century American West. Special attention is paid to the methodological
and conceptual problems confronting the historian seeking to reconstruct the
American past.
Staff: Dr TP Dunning
Unit weight: 25%
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HTA210/310
Assess: introductory exercise (20%), methodological assignment (20%), essay
(20%), 3-hr exam in Nov (40%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
African History
Enrolment code: HTA250/350
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Unit description: Is an introduction to African history. Topics include:
European initial contacts with and penetration into sub-Saharan Africa, the
Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades; European colonialism, racism, the rise
of African nationalism, and the struggle for independence from European
political and economic domination. Some concentration is placed on the
histories of South Africa and Kenya to illustrate various aspects of the unit.
Staff: Mr DJ Overton
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly (26 wks); dist.ed 3x1-day study
schools
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2x3,000-word essays (50%), tutorial participation (10%), exam in Nov
(40%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
Third World Issues
Enrolment code: HTA251/351
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Focuses on selected historic issues in Third World regions
including Vietnam, from French colonial territory to Cold War battleground;
the protracted Arab-Israeli Crisis; the transition of Japan from a feudal state to
an emerging Pacific power; and Cuba, America’s communist neighbour.
Staff: Mr DJ Overton
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly (26 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 2x3,000-word essays (25% ea), tutorial participation (10%), end-of-yr
exam (40%)
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
African–American History
Enrolment code: HTA252/352
Offered: Ltn, sem 2
Special note: may be offered at NWC
Unit description: Provides an introduction to the historical experiences of
various people of African descent in the Americas using both the work of
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historians and the writings of Africans. Emphasis is given to the institution of
chattel slavery and to the perceptions of African–Americans.
Staff: Dr TP Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: 3,000-word essay (50%), tutorial attendance and participation (10%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
Berlin I, Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America,
Levine L, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: From Slavery to Freedom
Gilroy P, The Black Atlantic.
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
War and Peace in the Pacific
Enrolment code: HTA255/355
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Concentrates on selected historical events in the Pacific
region during the first six decades of the 20th century, including: Japan’s
emergence as a significant military power around the time of the
Russo–Japanese War, 1904–1905, its subsequent expansion into Korea,
Manchuria and China, and its involvement in the Second World War. Other
topics include Australia’s and the United States’ roles in the Pacific War, the
communist rise to power in China, the early years of the Cold War in the
Asia-Pacific region, the Korean War, and the European colonial withdrawal
from Pacific Asia.
Staff: Mr DJ Overton, Dr T Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 x1-hr lectures weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HMA250/350
Assess: 3,000-word essay (45%), tutorial performance (10%), 2-hr exam in Nov
(45%)
Majors: History, Asian Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Environmental History
Enrolment code: HTA271/371
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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Unit description: Focuses on how the discipline of history can provide a
useful perspective on ecological issues implicating society and economy over
the past 200 years. With the New World lands of Australia and the United
States as comparative case studies and Tasmania as a special focus, the unit
appraises the industrial–urban revolution as an ecological revolution and the
environmental impact of cities and environmental pollution; discusses
historical and contemporary western ideas about Nature including the Gaia
hypothesis; traces the rise of national parks and of ideas about wilderness,
conservation and preservation; explores contemporary environmental history
since the advent of the environmental crisis in the late 1960s; examines the
history and varieties of environmentalism and the debate and conflicting
meanings of ecological sustainability; appraises the contributions of
evolutionary biology to environmental history.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History (S3T: 25% from Schedule B)
Assess: 2x2,500-word essays (30% ea), 3-hr exam in Nov (40
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3K
History of the Indigenous Peoples of North
America
Enrolment code: HTA275/375
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: Introduces the historical experiences of various indigenous
peoples of North America using both the work of non-indigenous historians
and the writings of Indigenous peoples. Emphasis is given to the large
literature concerning Native American peoples. Some attention is also paid to
the Inuit and Aleut. Themes include: the nature of historical indigenousness;
the varieties of inter-cultural relations; the problems of re-capturing and
understanding the worlds of past peoples: the uses of the past by indigenous
peoples to sustain and regain identities, including the issues of the ownership
of that past; and the challenges to everyone of writing histories of these people.
Staff: Dr T Dunning
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Mutual excl: HAB254/354
Assess: 3,000-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (20%), 2-hr exam in June
(40%)
Majors: History, Aboriginal Studies
Courses: R3A R3K
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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History and Heritage
Enrolment code: HTA290/390
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: Explores ways of knowing and relating to the past, what
historians can learn from related disciplines, how historians communicate
historical knowledge beyond academe to the wider community, and the way
the wider community identifies with history. The unit examines a range of
popular contemporary practices such as oral history, social history, and local
history; photographs as record and reminder; the history of buildings and
landscapes; archives and the preservation of documents; heritage places,
including convict sites; collecting historical artefacts; museums and their
exhibitions; historical re-enactments and commemorations; media histories; and
the writing of commissioned histories. The themes are explored with Australian
and Tasmanian examples and some field trips are arranged to examine
buildings and landscapes at first hand.
Staff: Dr S Petrow, Dr H Maxwell-Stewart
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures weekly, tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 History
Assess: int: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr exam
(50%); dist.ed essay (50%), 2-hr exam (50%).
Majors: History
Courses: R3A R3J R3K
Special Topic in History
Enrolment code: HTA399
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2; Ltn, sem 1&2
Special note: enrolment requires specific approval by the Head of School, and
is normally restricted to students who have the potential for honours level work
and are doing more than a basic major in History
Unit description: Students select a Special Topic taught at honours level and
prepare, under supervision, a research essay.
Staff: various
Unit weight: 25%
Prereq: at least 25% at level 200 History
Coreq: at least 25% at level 300 History
Assess: 1,500-word essay (20%), 4,000-word essay (40%), 3-hr exam (40%)
Majors: History
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Courses:
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R3A
History 4 (Honours)
Enrolment code: HTA498/499
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt, Ltn
Special note: full-time students enrol in HTA498 (100%), part-time students in
HTA499 (50%); individual units have notional weight, but for HECS purposes
must be weighted at 0%
Unit description: Students choose two Special Topics in History from the list
of offerings available in the School of History and Classics for 2001. Each unit
will comprise 20 hours of class contact. Each elective requires written work
(5–6,000 words); class participation; and a 3-hr examination. Each is weighted at
20%.
The Practice of History A & B (20%). These modules deal with the work of
historians both by displaying a wide range of concerns, approaches and
controversies, and by an introduction to professional employment. Each
module requires written work (2,500 words) and class participation. Each is
weighted at 10%.
Thesis (40%). In addition, students develop a research proposal, and prepare,
under supervision, a thesis of between 12,000 and 15,000 words in length. The
thesis constitutes 40% of the assessment.
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: Major, with Grade-Point Average of higher than 6.5
Assess: listed above
Courses: R4A