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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : History
131-284/384 Explorations in Slumland |
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Availability: | Not offered in 1997. | |
Credit Points: | 16.7 4th year | |
Coordinator: | Dr A Mayne | |
Timetable: | Semester 1 | |
Contact: | Three hours instruction and discussion per week, structured as one block of 2 hours, and another of 1 hour | |
Subject Description: | 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. Students should be able to demonstrate a general knowledge of the genre of slumland representation, and an appreciation of the historical contexts in which it arose. They should understand the interplay between these representations, public knowledge, and public policy, and be able to relate these understandings to recent historiographical debate within social and cultural history. | |
Assessment: | Two essays, one a synthesising exercise of 2000 words (40%), the other a research paper of 3000 words (60%). | |
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