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Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.
Contact: Three hours' instruction and discussion per week, structured as one block of 2 hours, and another of 1 hour
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:- demonstrate a general knowledge of the genre of slumland representation in 19th & 20th century Britain, the US, and Australia, and an appreciation of the historical contexts in which it arose; understand the interplay between these representations, public knowledge, and public policy; relate these understandings to recent historiographical debate within social and cultural history; apply these skills in the analysis of primary documentary, oral, and material data.
Content:
This subject will examine the social, cultural, and spatial construction of 'slums' in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain, the United States, and Australia. It will explore inner-city neighbourhood life, the fashioning of distorting slumland stereotypes about those neighbourhoods, and the influence of these slumland myths upon public policy.
Assessment:
Two essays, one a synthesising exercise of 2,000 words (40%), the other a research paper of 3,000 words (60%).
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p105) : Next:131-285 | Prev:131-282
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-285 | Prev:131-282
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.
Contact: Three hours' instruction and discussion per week, structured as one block of 2 hours, and another of 1 hour
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:- demonstrate a general knowledge of the genre of slumland representation in 19th & 20th century Britain, the US, and Australia, and an appreciation of the historical contexts in which it arose; understand the interplay between these representations, public knowledge, and public policy; relate these understandings to recent historiographical debate within social and cultural history; apply these skills in the analysis of primary documentary, oral, and material data.
Content:
This subject will examine the social, cultural, and spatial construction of 'slums' in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain, the United States, and Australia. It will explore inner-city neighbourhood life, the fashioning of distorting slumland stereotypes about those neighbourhoods, and the influence of these slumland myths upon public policy.
Assessment:
Two essays, one a synthesising exercise of 2,000 words (40 per cent); the other a research paper of 3,000 words (60 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-285 | Prev:131-282
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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