HIST128-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

New Zealand History in Global Perspective

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

Drawing on the latest scholarship, this course is both a survey of New Zealand history since first Polynesian settlement and an experiment in historical perspective. HIST 128 challenges traditional interpretations of New Zealand’s past. You will be introduced to different worlds of thought and encouraged to rethink and reimagine New Zealand history. The course addresses a range of themes including oral traditions, migration, daily life, conflict, empire and decline, and global forces.

The course examines this small country in its global and regional context, as a settler state and society linked to Britain, immersed in the Pacific and part of Australasia.  It considers (1) different Maori and Pakeha perspectives and worlds of thought and (2) the effects of global shifts, from membership of the British Empire to links with America, the Pacific Rim and Asia.

Restrictions

HIST108, HIST109, HIST124

Course Coordinator

Philippa Mein Smith

Lecturer

Rawiri Tau

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Primary source assignment - 1,000 words 20%
First essay - 1500 words 20%
Final exam - 2 hours 40%
Tutorial participation and paper 20%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

P. Mein Smith; A Concise History of New Zealand ; 2nd edn; Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $619.00

International fee $2,688.00

* 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 Humanities .

All HIST128 Occurrences

  • HIST128-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
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