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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr D Garden.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should: demonstrate an historical overview of the impact of Europeans on the Australian natural environment since 1788; show an appreciation of the main intellectual, philosophical, cultural and aesthetic influences on the attitudes of Europeans, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the Australian landscape, flora and fauna, and how these attitudes influenced treatment of the land and its indigenous inhabitants; demonstrate an awareness of the principal elements in public debate over environmental exploitation and assertions of conservation principles.
Content:
To trace British/European attitudes towards lands they 'discovered' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the consequent treatment of the Australian land mass, its flora and fauna. The impact of exploitation of the environment by European means of production and environmental impact of urban growth. Responses to the landscape as reflected in the arts, and the desire to transform the landscape to conform to European perceptions. Debate over optimum population size. The emergence of environmental consciousness in Australia.
Assessment:
Assessment will consist of an oral class presentation (10%) plus either 5,000 words of written work consisting of a 3,000 word research essay (60%) and a 2,000 word reflective essay (30%) OR a 5,000 word research essay (90%).
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p104) : Next:131-281 | Prev:131-278
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p130) : Next:131-281 | Prev:131-278
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr D Garden.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students completing this course should: demonstrate an historical overview of the impact of Europeans on the Australian natural environment since 1788; show an appreciation of the main intellectual, philosophical, cultural and aesthetic influences on the attitudes of Europeans, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the Australian landscape, flora and fauna, and how these attitudes influenced treatment of the land and its indigenous inhabitants; demonstrate an awareness of the principal elements in public debate over environmental exploitation and assertions of conservation principles.
Content:
To trace British/European attitudes towards lands they 'discovered' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the consequent treatment of the Australian land mass, its flora and fauna. The impact of exploitation of the environment by European means of production and environmental impact of urban growth. Responses to the landscape as reflected in the arts, and the desire to transform the landscape to conform to European perceptions. Debate over optimum population size. The emergence of environmental consciousness in Australia.
Assessment:
An oral class presentation (10 per cent) plus either 5,000 words of written work consisting of a 3000 word research essay (60 per cent) and a 2000 word reflective essay (30 per cent) OR a 5000 word research essay (90 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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