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Arts

HTA249

Enrolment
Unit Code
Unit Title
HTA205 Gender in European Thought
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA206 Australia from the 1850s to 1918
HTA207 Australia from 1918 to 1975
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA208 Medieval Britain: Myth, Power and Identity
HTA209 Europe in an Age of Crisis 1560-1640
HTA210 Cold War Europe, 1945-1991
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA211 Europe at War 1914-1945
HTA214 Late Medieval Europe
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA216 The Experience of War: Europe from Napoleon
HTA218 Crime and the Law in Historical Perspective
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA223 Islam, Law and Women - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA224 Independence and Revolution in Modern Asia
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA229 Van Diemen's Land 1642-1850
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA231 Tasmanian History from 1856
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA234 Europe in the High Middle Ages
HTA235 Faith in Asia:Origin & Change
HTA237 Holy Lands, Strange Lands: The Medieval World 1000-c.1300
HTA238 History and Film: Twentieth-Century Perspectives
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA240 Australian History 1788-1990s
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA242 Colonial USA, 1607-1789
HTA243 USA: The Nation from 1789
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA244 Modern Britain 1832-1990
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA245 Revolutions of the Mind
HTA247 Modern Russia: Enlightenment to Dictatorship
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA248 Forgotten Lives? Women in Asian History
HTA249 Atlantic Worlds, 1450-1807
HTA252 African-American History
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA254 Colonial Societies
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA255 War and Peace in the Pacific
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA256 Barbarian Kingdoms: Medieval Europe AD 300-700
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA257 Vikings and Vassals: Medieval Europe AD 700-1000
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA258 Renaissance & Reformation Europe
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA259 Europe 1815-1914
HTA260 Researching Family History
HTA263 Convict Archaeology
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA271 Australian Environmental History
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA275 History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
(Not Offered 2010)
HTA290 History and Heritage

2010  HTA249  Atlantic Worlds, 1450-1807

Unit Level: Intermediate

Available as a Student Elective: Yes

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See also   HTA349

OFFERINGS

Unit Sem 1 Sem 2 Full Yr Spring Summer Winter
HTA249 L,W
Distance(H,L,W,I,N)

Key Semester Dates
Semester Note Start Date Census Date Final WW Date* End Date
Sem 2 12-JUL-2010 10-AUG-2010 30-AUG-2010 15-OCT-2010

*The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (see Withdrawal dates explained for more information).

About Census Dates

DESCRIPTION

Examines culture contact in the Atlantic World from 1450 to the abolition of the Anglo-American slave trade. Geographically this will include West and Central Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, the North American mainland colonies and the Atlantic Seaboard of Western Europe and the British Isles. Major themes will include slavery and the slave trade, the creation of creole societies, cross Atlantic migration, colonial trade and political conflict. The purpose of the unit is to create student understanding of the movements of peoples in cooperation and conflict and of the creation of colonial cultures by these people.

WEIGHT:  12.5%

ASSESSMENT: int: Class participation (10%), 500-word exercise (10%), 2,500-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam (40%); Dist Ed: 500-word exercise (10%), 2,500-word essay (50%), 2 hr exam (40%)

TEACHING PATTERN: 2 hrs lectures weekly, 1 hr tutorial fortnightly; Dist Ed instructional package & two weekend study schools

FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS
Note: Class attendance may still be required

   Web supported - H,I,L,N,W
Online access to some part of this unit online is optional
   Resource supported teaching & learning - H,I,L,N,W
Additional resources are provided for your optional use; e.g. audio taped lectures
   Video conferencing - W
A live video link between campuses is used for at least some teaching in this unit
About Flexible Study Options

REQUISITE INFO
Prereq 25% at level 100 History or equiv

TEXTS
Information about any textbook requirements for Semester (Sem 2) will be available from mid April 2010

STAFF: Dr. T Dunning

FEES
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KEY

Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.

Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, J Indonesia, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Z New Zealand.

Special approval is required for enrolment into TNE Program units - campuses A, F, G, J, K, Q and Z click here for more information.



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