ANTH238-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Exploring the Past

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

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.

Prerequisites

15 points of ANTH or SOCI or HIST at 100 level. Students with at least a B average in 30 points of appropriate courses may be admitted with the approval of the Anthropology Programme Director

Restrictions

HIST288, SOCI238, SOCI338

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Lyndon Fraser

Guest Lecturer

Roger Fyfe (Canterbury Museum)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Structured Controversy Exercise 11 Mar 2013 20%
Learning Journal 40% Due 28 March and 31 May.
Museum Concept Description 03 Jun 2013 40%

Textbooks / Resources

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

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $670.00

International fee $2,850.00

* 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 .

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