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ATS3933

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 25 November 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

History

Coordinator(s)

Dr Julie Kalman

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

Societies express themselves through art, literature, ritual, everyday objects and other cultural artefacts. One of the tasks of the historian is to understand this interplay of culture and society, and how it manifests in different historical periods or places. In this unit we explore the ways in which historians of many different periods (from late antiquity to the present) write about culture, from 'great' art to the stuff of daily life. Students will be introduced to a broad range of cultural products and their meanings, and be required to undertake in-depth research into a topic, area and period of interest of their choice.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have:

  1. Critically engaged with different forms of cultural product, placing them in their historical and aesthetic contexts.
  2. Understood the meaning of the term "Cultural History", including its historiographical implications.
  3. Drawn on a number of theoretical frameworks in order to understand the history of culture.
  4. Conducted research into a particular area of cultural history.

Students successfully completing this unit at a Third Year level will have acquired, in addition:

  1. 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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Julie Kalman

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

History

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2933