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MHIX3000 – Making History

2022 – Session 1, Online-flexible

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Alison Holland
alison.holland@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
MHIX2007 and MHIX2020
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

What is history and how do historians practice their craft? What is the history of history and does it inform issues and debates in contemporary society? What skills does it teach us? Through the prism of historical literacy this unit explores the meanings, structures, methodologies and interpretive frames of historical thinking as well as the relationship between history and the public sphere. Drawing on knowledge and content from across the major students work individually and collectively on a set of big theoretical questions about history, historical practice and memory. The unit enables students to understand and articulate how their historical literacy is an important attribute of their employability.. All enrolment queries should be directed to Open Universities Australia (OUA): see www.open.edu.au

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Reflect on and articulate discipline specific skills and literacy.
  • ULO3: Think critically and analytically
  • ULO2: Integrate and apply discipline specific knowledge to contemporary and historical problems
  • ULO4: Communicate effectively in written, oral and interpersonal forms
  • ULO5: Synthesise and integrate knowledge from multiple topic areas
  • ULO6: Think historically about the present

General Assessment Information

See ilearn for full details regarding assessment for this unit.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted seven days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline.

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Individual thesis 40% No Tuesday, 26th April, midnight
Debate/Online Presention 30% No Weeks 11 and 12
Online participation 10% No Ongoing across semester
Written reflection 20% No Monday, 6th June, midnight

Individual thesis

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Tuesday, 26th April, midnight
Weighting: 40%

 

Students will compose an extended written response to a debate/presentation topic. This will be a critical piece of writing, setting out an argument in depth and including three historical/historiographical examples to illustrate. This will then form the basis of a group debate presentation later in the semester.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Reflect on and articulate discipline specific skills and literacy.
  • Think critically and analytically
  • Integrate and apply discipline specific knowledge to contemporary and historical problems
  • Communicate effectively in written, oral and interpersonal forms
  • Synthesise and integrate knowledge from multiple topic areas

Debate/Online Presention

Assessment Type 1: Debate
Indicative Time on Task 2: 30 hours
Due: Weeks 11 and 12
Weighting: 30%

 

Students will deliver individual online presentations based on their individual debate theses. These are to be 6-8 minutes in length.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Think critically and analytically
  • Integrate and apply discipline specific knowledge to contemporary and historical problems
  • Communicate effectively in written, oral and interpersonal forms

Online participation

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 8 hours
Due: Ongoing across semester
Weighting: 10%

 

Students will be required to prepare for each class by completing the compulsory readings. They will engage in group discussion via the online discussion forum demonstrating effective, respectful engagement with their peers and the unit convenor and undertaking a number of short reflective written and oral collaborative exercises across the semester to track progress and engagement.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Reflect on and articulate discipline specific skills and literacy.
  • Communicate effectively in written, oral and interpersonal forms
  • Think historically about the present

Written reflection

Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Monday, 6th June, midnight
Weighting: 20%

 

Students will write a short, 800 word, reflection on historical understanding, drawing on the key themes of the unit.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Reflect on and articulate discipline specific skills and literacy.
  • Think critically and analytically
  • Communicate effectively in written, oral and interpersonal forms
  • Think historically about the present

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

This unit consists of a lecture or lectorial followed by a weekly seminar/online discussion board involving discussion and group activities which start in the first week of semester.

Please watch the lectorials prior to joining the discussion board (there are a couple of weeks without a lectorial but most weeks have one), where the convenor will post questions and activities. Also prepare for class by completing the compulsory readings found in the Leganto reading link on the right-hand column of ilearn.

Please login to the ilearn site to familiarise yourself with the unit, assessments and convenor instructions.

Unit Schedule

Week Topic/Theme
1 Introduction
2 What is History and Does it Matter?
3 What is Historical Knowledge?
4 Historical Literacy: Asking Questions
5 Historical Literacy: Critical Thinking
6 Historical Literacy: Historical Imagination
7 Historical Literacy: HIstorical Judgement
8 HIstory, Policy and Publics
9 Consuming History
10 Mapping Debates
11 Debate Presentations
12 Debate Presentations
13 Reflection

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Results

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Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook