131-073 Human Rights in Australian History

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131-073 Human Rights in Australian History
Note	Formerly available as 131-294/394. Students who have completed 131-294 or 131-394 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	1
Coordinator	Andrew Brown-May & Patricia Grimshaw
Prerequisites	Usually 25 points of first year history, see Prerequisites, or first year Australian studies, see Prerequisites.
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	This subject is taught in intensive mode over ten days from July 8 - 19. A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per day
Subject Description	This subject is a study of the changing forms of Australian citizenship from the colonial occupation to the present times, with particular attention to the creation of the nation state, its modes of government and arguments over the boundaries and meaning of citizenship for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The subject will examine issues of human rights and social justice in relation to Australians who faced discrimination on the basis of gender, sexuality, constructions of 'race', migrant and refugee status from the white invasion of 1788 to the incarceration of refugees in the early 21st century.
Assessment	Written work totalling 4000 words.
Prescribed Texts	A subject reader will be available.

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