HYM5140 - The Raj Imagined

Leader: Ian Copland

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

As for HYM4140

Objectives

On successful completion of HYM5140, 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 (7000 words): 60%
Examination (2 hours): 30%

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week

Prohibitions

HSY4140, HYM4140