Undergraduate Course: Australia: Origins of Convict Settlement (HIST10115)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Students will have the opportunity to examine the background to British settlement in the Australian penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land during the eighteenth century. The course will use a comparative framework from the history of New World transported convicts, slaves and indentured servants to convicts transported from South Asia to Mauritius and South East Asia. Students will be asked to consider debates about the meaning of freedom in the period: a period of revolution in Europe and America. These debates will include not just formal political or philosophical writings about freedom but also the study of popular mentalities. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Directors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503783). |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should usually have at least 3 History courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 24 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Room G.15 - Doorway 4, Teviot Place | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Room G.15 - Doorway 4, Teviot Place |
| No Exam Information |
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: 6 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Room G.15 - Doorway 4, Teviot Place | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Room G.15 - Doorway 4, Teviot Place |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The aim of this option is to develop participants' understanding of the complexities of transportation and white colonisation. At the end of the course, students will be able to recognise the major themes of crime and punishment in Georgian and Victorian England and the gendered nature of punishment. Students will also be able to assess aspects of global unfree labour and the expansion of the British Empire, and analyse information in order to formulate an argument. |
Assessment Information
One 3000 word essay
One two-hour exam
Visiting Student Variant Assessment:
When this course is taught in Semester 1, the Visiting Student Assessment will be:
One 3000 word essay (one-third of overall assessment)
One "take-home" exam (two-thirds of overall assessment).
If taught in Semester 2, the assessment is as detailed for full year students. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tina Picton Phillipps
Tel: (0131 6)51 3857
Email: cpphilli@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Marie-Therese Rafferty
Tel: (0131 6)50 3780
Email: M.T.Rafferty@ed.ac.uk |
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