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1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p106) : Next:131-302 | Prev:131-290
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year
Coordinator: Associate Professor D Philips.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first year history.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to: grasp the main issues in the history of South Africa under apartheid 1948-1994 understand the main components of apartheid as a racial ideology and as a legal system; understand the main criticisms of, and forms of resistance to, apartheid while it was in force; analyse the interplay of racial, national, class and gender factors in both the enforcement of apartheid and the resistance to it; analyse the main reasons for the eventual downfall of apartheid
Content:
A history of apartheid from 1948; the systematic enforcement of a racial ideology; life under apartheid for most South Africans; resistance to the apartheid state, especially by Black mass movements; the eventual end of the apartheid state.
Assessment:
One research essay (3,000 words 50%); one reflective essay (2,000 words 40%); tutorial participation (10%).
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p106) : Next:131-302 | Prev:131-290
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p132) : Next:170-243 | Prev:131-290
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Associate Professor D Philips.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to: grasp the main issues in the history of South Africa under apartheid 1948-1994 understand the main components of apartheid as a racial ideology and as a legal system; understand the main criticisms of, and forms of resistance to, apartheid while it was in force; analyse the interplay of racial, national, class and gender factors in both the enforcement of apartheid and the resistance to it; analyse the main reasons for the eventual downfall of apartheid .
Content:
A history of apartheid from 1948; the systematic enforcement of a racial ideology; life under apartheid for most South Africans; resistance to the apartheid state, especially by Black mass movements; the eventual end of the apartheid state.
Assessment:
One research essay (3,000 words) (50 per cent); one reflective essay (2,000 words) (40 per cent); tutorial participation (10 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS, SEMESTER differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p132) : Next:170-243 | Prev:131-290
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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