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Year 4 History.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Dr D Goodman.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.
Objectives:
The subject aims to: introduce students to some of the approaches to history writing that have been influential in recent decades - these will include feminism, Marxism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and cultural history - and with recent challenges to them; give students some understanding of the debates about both culture and language in contemporary historiography; introduce students to some of the debates about interpretation in the contemporary humanities; and encourage students to develop some ideas about the distinctiveness of history as a discipline within the humanities and social science.
Content:
This subject will look at readings chosen from those disciplines whose converging discourses on language, culture and history provide the context within which the contemporary historian operates. One important theme addressed in this subject is the role of the historian as interpreter in relation to the lives of those historical subjects being interpreted - the constitution and questioning of historical 'authority', particularly in post-colonial and post-modern thought.
Assessment:
Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 109)
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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