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City Visions: Melbourne Intensive (HIST20087)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Email:a.may@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability | Summer Term |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
How are histories and identities expressed in the forms and cultures of cities? Adopting Melbourne as its exemplar, this subject offers an exciting look at the role of people, places, institutions and processes in the historical development of the modern city. It does so by placing Melbourne in a global urban context, while also exploring local communities and spaces where a diversity of people have lived, worked and played. It explores the meanings of ‘places’, both real and imagined: from the inner city to the suburbs, and in built as well as open spaces. We will explore Melbourne’s diverse neighbourhoods (such as Chinatown, Italian, Jewish, Middle Eastern and Vietnamese), and the city’s famous cultural precincts, from the MCG and Federation Square to laneways with their renowned cafes, buskers and graffiti. We will walk the city streets, considering architecture, public art, the city of the senses, and the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to investigate how the past is remembered, preserved or erased in the present.
We will also examine the ways in which identity and belonging, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and emotions and sensuality are negotiated in the city. This cross-disciplinary urban history subject will appeal to students interested in undertaking a detailed study of cities and identity and will build skills in historical, cultural and environmental analysis. Taught intensively, with guest involvement from experts in areas such as urban archaeology, Indigenous knowledge, and museum curation, much of our learning involves site visits outside the campus.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject should be able to:
- Have knowledge of the development of the modern city and the field of urban history
- Demonstrate familiarity with key concepts relating to cities, urbanisation and everyday life
- Understand the interaction of ethnicity, race, class, gender and sexuality in shaping lives through urban history
- Use historical evidence, including visual evidence and cultural artefacts, to think critically and analyse complex issues about urban culture, society and identity
- Select and identify their own sources through independent research, including the competent use of library, archival and other information sources
- Demonstrate an ability to use and apply techniques of historical and social analysis drawn from a wide range of sources
- Develop written and oral analytical skills relating to an understanding of historical and contemporary representations of cities and identity
- Demonstrate an ability to interrogate evidence within its historical and cultural contexts.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
HIST30071 City Visions: Melbourne Intensive
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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Summer Term
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Fieldwork exercise
| During the teaching period | 20% |
Document analysis
| During the teaching period | 20% |
Padlet posts
| During the teaching period | 10% |
A research essay
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 50% |
| Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Andrew May Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 40 hours - 2 hour lecture, 1 hour tutorial and 1 hour site visit every day for 2 weeks Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 29 January 2024 to 9 February 2024 Last self-enrol date 31 January 2024 Census date 9 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 March 2024 Assessment period ends 8 March 2024 Summer Term contact information
Email:a.may@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major History - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024