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ATS3930 - Encounters and empire: Europe and the world

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Organisational Unit

Coordinator(s)

Offered

First semester 2016 (Day)

Clayton

First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

From the medieval period onwards, expansion brought Europeans increasingly into contact with diverse cultures and civilizations. This unit explores how encounters between Europe and the world were transformed from the tentative and uncertain contacts that characterised earlier periods to the self-confident imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than analysing the broad sweep of political history, we are interested in the leading edge of cross-cultural encounters: in travellers, diplomats, and slaves who 'crossed-over' to engage with new cultural worlds, in the tools that made these encounters possible and in the commodities that underpinned global exchange.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

gain a broad understanding of the historical timeline of European expansion
gain a clear understanding of key historical debates about the rise of the West
gain a thorough understanding of how cross-cultural encounters changed over time
gain a clear understanding of different theoretical approaches that historians have used to conceptualise Europe's encounters with the world
explore the evolution of historical debates over Orientalism
be able to recognize and analyse key historical themes in the history of cross-cultural encounters
learn how to work with archival sources
learn how to use visual sources (such as maps) effectively in research
have further developed their oral and written communication skills
have acquired independent research skills across a range of historical source areas.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 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.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Susie Protschky

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

History

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2930