HYM5120

Reading and Writing Australian History ( 12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL)

Leader: Mark Peel

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2006 (Day)

Synopsis: As for HYM4120

Objectives: Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate their ability to examine issues of historiography and method through a critical reading of selected Australian historians. 2. 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. Demonstrate a high level of development of 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, HYM4120