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131-216/316 Making Melbourne Marvellous (C) - the Rise of the Suburbs

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.

Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.

Contact: Two hours of lecture-workshops and a one-hour tutorial per week

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate a detailed historical knowledge of Melbourne's outer suburbs; demonstrate a general comparative understanding of the history of urbanisation in the New World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; understand the epistemological strengths of marrying the genres of social history and cultural history in urban studies; apply historical skills to the assessment of cultural significance in conserving Melbourne's past.

Content:

The building and peopling of suburban homes, workplaces, and neighbourhoods in Australia, North America, and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Assessment:

One research essay (60%) and one end-of-semester reflective paper (40%), totalling 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p99) : Next:131-219 | Prev:131-215


2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-219 | Prev:131-215

131-216/316 Making Melbourne Marvellous (C) - the Rise of the Suburbs

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.

Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.

Contact: Two hours of lecture-workshops and a one-hour tutorial each week.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate a detailed historical knowledge of Melbourne's outer suburbs; demonstrate a general comparative understanding of the history of urbanisation in the New World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; understand the epistemological strengths of marrying the genres of social history and cultural history in urban studies; apply historical skills to the assessment of cultural significance in conserving Melbourne's past.

Content:

The building and peopling of suburban homes, workplaces, and neighbourhoods in Australia, North America, and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Assessment:

One research essay (60 per cent) and one end-of-semester reflective paper (40 per cent); totalling 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-219 | Prev:131-215


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