HYM4120

Reading and Writing Australian History (12 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Graeme Davison

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2004 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: 1. To examine issues of historiography and method through a critical reading of selected Australian historians. 2. To analyse some of the key elements of historical prose, such as story-telling, beginnings and endings, transitions, scene-setting, characterisation, placing oneself in the text, addressing different readerships, documentation and the onus of proof, irony and indirection, the use of different voices and tropes, formal and colloquial prose. 3. To develop practical skills in reading and writing historical prose.

Assessment: Essays and writing exercises (9000 words): 100%

Contact Hours: 2 hour seminar per week

Prohibitions: HSY4730, HYM5120