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 131-016 Europeans and Conquest A: Discovering Europe and the Americas, 1450-1620

Note

Formerly available as 131-128. Students who have completed 131-128 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

1st year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Mr C Zika

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

A study of the ways in which Europeans of the Renaissance period created a self-identity which put Europe at the centre of the world; and the part which this played in the European conquest of the Americas. Students who complete this subject should: understand key elements in the emergence of a European cultural identity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; be familiar with the ways in which historians have understood encounters between Europeans and American Indians in this period; locate and analyse literary and visual documents which represent and shape these historical developments.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.



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