Unit

School Of Humanities And Communication Arts

Interpreting Australia: Australian Historians and HistoriographyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100963.3

Discipline: HISTORY

Student Contribution Band: 1

Level: 3

Credit Points: 10

Co ordinator
Andrew Moore

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Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points

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Teaching Periods
Nothing on offer.

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About this Unit
The unit critically reflects on the practices and debates in the writing of Australian history. It examines the approaches of major Australian historians including Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey and Humphrey McQueen, as well as themes such as empiricism versus postmodernism, the 'new social history' and Marxism and Australian historiography.

Specialisations

KP1000.1	Humanities	CONTINUING
M1009.1	History, Politics and Philosophy	CONTINUING
M1033.1	History and Political Thought	CONTINUING
SM1005.1	History, Politics and Philosophy	CONTINUING
SM1041.1	History and Political Thought	CONTINUING

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