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ATS2387

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

National Centre For Australian Studies

Coordinator(s)

Professor Bruce Scates

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Notes

Synopsis

This Unit begins with a study tour of Istanbul and the Gallipoli Peninsula, walking the gullies and the ridges and reconstructing the Anzac campaign of 1915. We then move to Prato (near Florence) for a week of seminars/workshops and excursions to commemorative sites in Florence and Bologna. After Prato, we will fly to Brussels for the Western Front component, exploring the major Australian battles and museums in Flanders and on the Somme. The program concludes in Paris. A series of onsite lectures and workshops will introduce students to the nature and experience of war on the Gallipoli peninsula and the Western Front. Topics will include the making of the Anzac Legend, war and the experience of overseas travel, the Homeric tradition and the changing nature of battle, pilgrimage, cultural tourism, the making of commemorative landscapes, the demise of the Ottoman Empire and the making of a new Europe. While based on the Gallipoli Peninsula, students will research a battle in depth and present their findings on the battlefield or related site of memory.

Outcomes

Students who engage with the unit content will develop:

  1. A critical understanding of the history of Australia's involvement in the Great War and the way that conflict has been remembered and commemorated.
  2. An in depth understanding of the lived experience of war and an ability to locate and interrogate personal testimonies and other primary sources to assist in this understanding.
  3. Knowledge of the historical and social context of Australia's involvement in the Great War the impact of this involvement on Australia's relationship with the region and the world.
  4. A familiarity with the major historiographical issues surrounding the impact of World War I on Australian identity and society.
  5. An understanding of the impact of the First World War on civil society and how the war shaped Europe and the Middle East in the twentieth century.
  6. An ability to conduct independent research and to work collaboratively in groups.
  7. An ability to communicate expressively and critically in both oral and written forms on the complex questions of involvement in human conflict.
  8. An understanding of different theoretical approaches to the writing of history and the history of warfare in particular (third year students would be expected to acquire a greater degree of sophistication in applying critical and theoretical approaches).
  9. Personal skills in the course of their travel and engagement with people from other cultures.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

  • Additional requirements
  • This unit is taught intensively at Prato

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Bruce Scates

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Australia in the world
Communications and media studies
History
International relations
International studies
Global cultural literacies
Arts enrichment units

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS3387, ATS2388, ATS3388, ATS2389, ATS3389, ATS2390, ATS3390