HYM5120 - Reading and Writing Australian History

Leader: Christina Twomey

Offered

Clayton First semester 2008 (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