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131-437 What Is Public History?

Year 4 History.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to: demonstrate a general knowledge of the development and content of public history in Australia and overseas, together with an appreciation of innovations in the cultural heritage field in Australia; gain advanced knowledge of historical applications using new information technologies; locate these understandings within historiographical debate concerning the interpretation, preservation, and communication of the past.

Content:

Detailed analysis of debate in Australia, North America, and Britain amongst historians, architectural historians, historical archaeologists, engineers, geographers and museum curators about methods of interpreting, preserving, and communicating the past.

Assessment:

Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words.

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