Offered
Clayton First semester 2008 (Day)
Synopsis
As for HYM4120
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Demonstrate their ability to examine issues of historiography and method through a critical reading of selected Australian historians.
- 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.
- 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