Writing History: People, Places and Times
Duration
- 13 week study period
Contact hours
- Online and private study - 12.5 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
| Hawthorn HOL Study Period 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
EquivalentLPW602(Z) - Writing History: People, Places and Times
Aims and objectives
In this subject, students will learn the dimensions of research and publication in the writing of history. Students will develop the skills needed to create narratives using local, family, social or material history and to produce a piece of writing for publication in print and/or online.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Identify and critically evaluate the debates, methodologies, and techniques used to write, creatively interpret, and document historical events in a variety of forms and genres.
2. Demonstrate the different writing skills and techniques required to create critically informed pieces of writing that engage with the debates, issues and varying elements of history.
3. Conceptualize, plan, research, and produce a piece of writing that engages with, creatively illustrates, or interprets an aspect of history.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Specified Learning Activities Various | 3 | 13 | 39 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent Learning | 8.5 | 13 | 111 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Open University Australia
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 11.5 | 13 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
| Written Assignment | Individual | 60-70% | 1, 2, 3 |
| Online Discussion Threads | Individual/Group | 30-40% | 1, 2, 3 |
Content
- Various approaches to the writing of History
- Understanding the process of writing a family history and genealogy
- Writing from your own history
- The key aspects of biography and writing about the history of others
- Analysing the writing of historical fiction
- Fictionalising from Real People
- Writing about place
- Writing about objects
- Writing a local history
- Considering alternative forms of writing history
- Understanding theoretical approaches to the writing of history
- Publication opportunities
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required texts will be made available in the Unit Outline.