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Year 4 History.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Dr A Finnane.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to: develop a command of the major bodies and genres of work by which knowledge of Vietnam has been developed, modified and maintained, and to be able to demonstrate a sensitivity to the cultural specificity of this knowledge.
Content:
The subject will examine the shifting meanings of the Vietnam war across cultures and over time through a study of the words and pictures produced by the war. It will examine key texts, photographs and films in the context both of contemporary commentary on the war and of retrospective historical analysis, with an eye to the processes by which a current affair becomes an historical event. The meaning of Vietnam from different national, racial, religious, class and gender perspectives will be explored through a study of the conflict as it was waged in Vietnam and abroad. Within these guidelines, students will have an opportunity identify particular issues they wish to study. Students with a second language capacity (Vietnamese, French, Chinese) will be encouraged to draw on non-English analyses or representations of the Vietnam war for the benefit of the class as well as of their own research
Assessment:
Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 110)
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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