HIST136-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Revolutions and Revolutionaries

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

This course explores the nature of revolutions and their role in shaping the modern world. After looking at various definitions of the term 'revolution', and a range of historical approaches to the study of revolutions, the course looks in turn at a series of case studies such as the American, French and Russian revolutions, and their causes, course and consequences.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to demonstrate:

• A broad overall knowledge of the revolutions covered in the course.
• An ability to place the revolutions in question in their broad historical context.
• An ability to analyse the revolutions covered by the course with a view to answering questions about the causes, development and consequences of these revolutions.
• An awareness of how different historians have approached these questions.
• An awareness of larger questions about the role of revolutions in modern history.
• The ability to discuss, share and debate ideas.
• The ability to demonstrate some degree of independent learning

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.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Restrictions

HIST123

Course Coordinator

David Monger

Lecturers

Peter Field , Evgeny Pavlov and Heather Wolffram

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
First essay 25%
Second essay 25%
Final exam - 2 hours 40%
Tutorial assessment 10%


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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $3,375.00

* 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.

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