ANTH238-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018

Exploring the Past

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 18 May 2018

Description

This course is a 'hands-on' introduction to public history and historical ethnography, taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials and field trips.

This course is a ‘hands-on’ introduction to historical inquiry taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials and field trips. Exploring the Past begins with an attempt to find common ground between the disciplines of anthropology and history. We visit local archives and carry out a structured controversy exercise that seeks to critically examine the ‘sacred myths’ that surround the commemoration of Anzac Day.
In the class sessions that follow, we explore three case studies: death, museums and film. Our focus here is on:
a)  ways we might approach the past, including the use of documentary sources, material culture, visual media, oral histories and
b)  the kinds of questions that confront those of us engaged in historical work (especially in museums). Who owns the past? Who may interpret the past? Whose story is it? Who should tell it?

COURSE GOAL
This course aims to awaken students’ historical imagination and explore ways that we might represent the past.

Learning Outcomes

This course will enable each participant to:

 consider a range of tools for making sense of the past
 discuss the relationship between the social sciences and history
 critically evaluate the significance of Anzac Day and how its meanings have changed over time
 reflect on course texts and learning experiences in a personal journal.
 complete a concept description for a museum exhibition on an aspect of local history.
 contribute effectively in group and cooperative work.

NOTE: The correct pre-requisites for this course are as follows - please ignore the ones below.

15 points of 100 level ANTH or HIST or SOCI with B grade or better; or 30 points of 100 level ANTH or HIST or SOCI; or students without 100 level ANTH or HIST or SOCI but with a B average or better in 60 points in related subjects may enter the course with the approval of the Head of Department.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

15 points of ANTH or SOCI at 100 level; OR 45 points in related subjects with the approval of the Head of Department

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Lyndon Fraser

Guest Lecturer

Roger Fyfe (Canterbury Museum)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Structured Controversy Exercise 20%
Learning Journal 40%
Museum Concept Description 40%

Textbooks / Resources

The required readings for the course will be available on LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $746.00

International fee $3,038.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All ANTH238 Occurrences

  • ANTH238-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018