Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Nicholas Irving
Contact via nicholas.irving@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is a survey of the chief world developments influencing Australian history from 1945 to the present. Principle interest will focus on: a) Europe from post-war crisis and decline to present day resurgence, with themes of particular interest to Australia including migration, ideological trends, economic integration and decolonisation; b) the United States of America in its period of peak world power, with special attention to the politics and economics of the Cold War era and to the spread of American cultural values; c) East Asia (principally China and Japan) from post-war settlement to economic transformation with special reference to trade ties and accompanying Australian cultural adjustments.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Tutorial Participation | 20% | Ongoing |
Secondary Source Exercise | 15% | Friday 15th August |
Primary Source Analysis | 15% | Friday 12th September |
Essay Draft | 20% | Monday 6th October |
Research Essay | 30% | Friday 7th November |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%
Tutorials for this subject are not compulsory. Instead, each week in class you will be asked two multiple choice questions about that week's reading. There will be ten quizzes in total, and no quiz for the reading week, or for the essay writing workshop. Each quiz is thus worth 2% of your final grade. You must get both questions right to earn the marks for that week's tutorial. On-campus students must attend a class to complete the quiz. External students will have a week to complete the quiz online.
Due: Friday 15th August
Weighting: 15%
This exercise consists of seven short answer comprehension questions on two set readings. You will complete it after the week one discussions, and hand it in (electronically through turnitin) on the Monday of week two. The aim of this exercise is to produce a synthesis of two historical articles. A detailed description of the task, including the short answer questions, is available on iLearn.
Due: Friday 12th September
Weighting: 15%
This exercise consists of nine short answer comprehension questions on two set primary sources. You will hand it in (electronically through turnitin) on the Monday of week six. The aim of this exercise is to analyse two primary sources in light of the two secondary sources you sythesised in the first asessment task. A detailed description of the task, including the short answer questions, is available on iLearn.
Due: Monday 6th October
Weighting: 20%
This task concentrates on your writing. You will write a draft introduction and paragraph and bring it to class for peer review. A full description of the task is available on iLearn. On-campus students will bring a hard copy to tutorials in week 8 and submit a second copy electronically through turnitin. External students will attach a soft copy to the tutorial discussion and also submit a second copy electronically through turnitin.
Due: Friday 7th November
Weighting: 30%
The major assessment task for this unit is a 2000-word essay. You will build on the work from the previous three assessment tasks to write ane ssay in response to your set question. Youa re expected to do research beyond the set texts for this question. It is due the Monday of week 12 (28th October). You will submit it electronically through Turnitin.
On-campus students are expected to attend two one hour lectures per week. External students are not expected to attend on-campus session, but are expected to listen to the lectures through Echo/iLearn.
On-campus students are expected to attend one 1-hour tutorial per week. External Students are expected to participate in the weekly online discussion forum through iLearn every week.
All necessary tutorial readings are in the Course Reader, which is available from the Co-Op Bookshop.
All the secondary sources and most of the primary sources for the assessment tasks are available through E-Reserve.
Week 1: Australia in the Post-War World |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 2: Australian Anticommunism in the First Cold War |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 3: Australians at Home in the 1950s |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 4: Looking Towards Asia in the 1950s |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 5: Protesting Vietnam in Australia |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 6: Aboriginal Land Rights in the 1960s and 1970s |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 8: Essay Writing Workshop |
Readings:
Week 9: Australian Cultural Nationalism in the 1970s |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 10: Australia After the White Australia Policy |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 11: Capitalism Gone Wild |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 12: Australians Abroad: Tourism in Asia |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 13: Australia and the War on Terror |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
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Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
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Assessments handed in late in this subject will be penalised at 2% per day late, with Saturday and Sunday counting as one day. Assessments handed in after the Post Date on Turnitin (ie the date on which assessments are returned to students) will not be accepted without a Disruption to Studies application.
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