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Global Environmental History (HIST90036)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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- Assessment
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Overview
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In the past decade the field of environmental history has seen great analytical and conceptual developments across all topics. This subject will examine recent major works in environmental history to assess the state of the field and to illuminate contemporary environmental issues and questions. In particular, we will read in some major monographs concerning topics including global environments and commodities, environmental management, climate (including climate change), technologies and environmental control, state-building, and environmental narratives and discourses. We will discuss the difficulties and tensions of research that straddles many spatial and temporal scales and human and non-human actors. Although focussed on the work of historians, this course will also actively consider the interdisciplinary frameworks in which these works sit and the concepts with which they engage, particularly noting work in geography, anthropology, and the emerging environmental humanities.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should have:
- Enhanced knowledge of central themes and concerns of global environmental history
- The capacity to engage with and clearly communicate major scholarship in the field
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
Generic skills
The subject will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing skills and capacities including those identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- The capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge,
- An advanced ability to engage in critical reflection, synthesis and evaluation of research-based and scholarly literature
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Te enrol in this subject, students must be studying towards the Doctor of Philosophy in Arts (DR-PHILART)
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- 3 x 850-word book / literature reviews for topics covered in weeks 2-6 (100%), due during the intensive teaching period within one week of the session in which the topics were discussed
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- April
Principal coordinator Alessandro Antonello Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 12 hours total: 6 x 2-hr seminars, delivered weekly Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 9 April 2018 to 25 May 2018 Last self-enrol date 18 April 2018 Census date 20 April 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 11 May 2018 Assessment period ends 1 June 2018 April contact information
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022