ATS3631 - The idea of travel: Global perspectives

Students successfully completing ATS3631 will be expected to demonstrate:

1. an understanding of several key themes relating to the role and impact of travel;
2. an appreciation of the complex ways in which travel and cultural encounter have shaped and continue to shape modern society;
3. a critical understanding of the various interpretations that inform the historical and contemporary analysis of these phenomena;
4. an enhanced understanding of the relationship between fictional and non-fictional representations of travel and encounter and of arguments about cultural change and representation;
5. enhanced skills in the critical and analytical reading of a variety of texts, including contemporary documents, polemical literature, historical scholarship visual representations and web-based evidence, and specifically the development of skills in source criticism, critical reading, the development of research and writing skills, especially the use of evidence and primary sources, analysing different interpretations of an event or issue, organising and defending an argument, and writing with precision and imagination; and
6. the capacity to work with others and present conclusions in oral form; and
7. enhanced skills in the formulation of an independent research project and in the development of a comparative examination, including the location and critical analysis of relevant documentary sources.