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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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