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Making History (HIST30060)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
Email: d.goodman@unimelb.edu.au
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This subject brings all students majoring in History together in a culminating experience to reflect on the past and current state of History as a discipline, as well as on its contemporary relevance and importance. Students will undertake an archivally-based research project, and will engage with issues to do with the history, politics and culture of the archival sources of historical knowledge. Emphasis will be placed on current debates in historical studies, as well as on the uses of history in the community beyond the classroom. We will consider the impact of the digital revolution on historical studies and students will undertake some basic tasks in digital history. Students will also be encouraged, both in class and in their assignments, to reflect upon their own historical research and practice over the years of their degree.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should:
- understand the development of History as an academic discipline and major debates about its past, present and future;
- be capable of formulating an historical research question in relation to existing scholarship and of undertaking an independent historical research project;
- have undertaken archival research and have some understanding of the history of archives and of the past and present importance of archival research to historical studies;
- have an enhanced understanding of the relationship of academic history to other modes of engagement with the past;
- have an enhanced understanding of the ways historical knowledge can be effectively and creatively presented, in writing and in other modes, and a demonstrated proficiency in presenting their own research findings;
- have an ability to reflect on their own practice as historians;
- have an enhanced critical understanding of the variety of conceptual approaches currently used by historians;
- have an enhanced understanding of the effects of the digital revolution on historical studies; and
- have a demonstrated ability to express historical arguments in writing and orally.
Last updated: 3 November 2022