HSY4140

The Raj Imagined: Stories and Films Of British India in Their Historical Context (12 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Ian Copland

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: On successful completion of HSY4140 students will: 1. Have a broad understanding of the relations between the British and their Indian subjects during the last eighty years of the Raj. 2. Be familiar with a number of important novels and stories by English and Indian writers set in the India of the Raj. 3. Be conversant with the problems of using fictional sources as historical texts. 4. Be capable of researching and writing an extended original academic essay in the discipline of history.

Assessment: Class participation: 10% + Research essay (7,000 words): 60% + Examination (2 hours): 30%

Contact Hours: 2 hour seminar per week

Prerequisites: A Third Year sequence in History

Prohibitions: HYM4140, HYM5140