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HISTORY EXTENSION

HISTORY EXTENSION. What it’s all about!. Who can do this course?. A 1 unit course offered for Ancient and Modern students Prerequisite: one year 11 history course. Required: you must be studying ancient and/or modern in year 12. What is it all about?.

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HISTORY EXTENSION

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  1. HISTORY EXTENSION What it’s all about!

  2. Who can do this course? A 1 unit course offered for Ancient and Modern students Prerequisite: one year 11 history course. Required: you must be studying ancient and/or modern in year 12.

  3. What is it all about? This course is completely different to any history you have studied before. This course focuses on historiography, that is: The study of how and why history has been recorded It is history from a different perspective – the historians. How have historians written history and why have they bothered?

  4. Some themes and issues raised What is ‘history’? The philosophy of ‘history’ Can the truth be achieved in the search of history? Is our understanding of history merely an ‘interpretation’? Are there any facts left in history or is it ‘faction’?

  5. Who are the historians? What are their AIMS in writing history? From ancient through medieval to modern historians… Eg Herodotus to Bede, Gibbon to Von Ranke, Marx to Derrida Who have been the historians? What has been their purpose in writing history?

  6. Themes and Issues How and why has history changed over time? Oral stories and myths Written Narratives Political and Religious Propaganda History as a science “Total History” Revisionist and Post Modernist History

  7. Themes and Issues The rise of ‘other’ histories that have traditionally been ‘ignored’ in favour of ‘Big History’ and ‘Great Man History’ History of women History of the colonised / indigenous perspectives History of ordinary peoples eg peasants Social histories

  8. Postmodernist History!?! • No ‘truth’ in history?! Is History just all fiction anyway? MAYBE ^

  9. Themes and Issues History and the media… changing communications NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES TELEVISION INTERNET BOOKS FILM YOU TUBE / INTERNET

  10. Themes and Issues Do TV/Film count as History?? What about historical fiction? What is the value of such ‘history’??

  11. Jane Austen as History??? She provides insight into Victorian England’s: Values Fashion Manners, etiquette Family unit Social-classes This is a new approach to history So the question: what counts as history?

  12. Course Outline Topic 1What is History? Historiography – where we study the history of how history has been created, constructed and recorded. We look at the historians throughout history, how and why they have made history. Topic 2Case Study We examine one person or issue and look at how the historians have written about it over time. We pay attention to conflicting histories, historical debates and why there are differing ‘histories’ of the one issue/person. CGHS studies Elizabeth I the way historians have differently interpreted her leadership, policies and image since the 16th century.

  13. The first history book of Liz – published 17th C. Case Study: How has Queen Elizabeth’s reign been portrayed throughout history? Why are there “different histories” of her life/reign? Feisty and silly Queenie on Blackadder Various film interpretations Horrible Histories TV!! QE’s own commissioned portrait 16th C. CE Rubber ducky Liz!! Warrior Queen??

  14. Topic 3Major Project • Students choose a topic/issue of interest to them (ancient, medieval, modern) to examine the historiographical debates and history of it. • Your approach to this is modeled in the class case study (Queen Elizabeth)

  15. Past Project Topics 2012 student topics: MODERN HISTORY The Bombings of Japan: Was there any alternative? The Question of the Armenian “Genocide” Historiographical debates surrounding the Nanking Massacre EARLY MODERN HISTORY Catherine the Great: varying interpretations of her leadership Historiographical debate surrounding Rousseau’s influence on the French Revolution. MEDIEVAL HISTORY Different interpretations of the causes of the English Reformation (Henry VIII) A study of the modern historiographical thought of the impact of the Norman Conquest on England

  16. Other past projects • Revising the Holocaust • King Arthur in History and Legend • Marie Antoinette: Saint or Sinner? (pictured right) • Tiananmen Square • The Killing Fields of Cambodia • National Museum of Australia and the History Wars • Historiography of gender in the Salem Witch Trials • The historical portrayal of Ned Kelly in the media • Amazonian Warrior Women: hisotriographical debate: fact or fiction? • Competing histories of Malcolm X • Was Pharaoh Akhenaten the forerunner of Judaism?

  17. Major Project 40 Trial HSC 10 Total Assessment 50 (1 unit course) There will be a Midcourse Exam which will be partially assessable • Format of Midcourse, Trial and HSC Exam • 2 hours 2 essays: • - Q1 on Topic 1 What is History • - Q2 on Topic 2 Elizabeth case study

  18. Skills developed • Analytical thinking / critical thinking • Written communication and expression • Oral communication, debating, discussion • Media discernment and critique • Research skills • Self motivation and independent research

  19. Pathways to…

  20. You should consider it if: You have a passion and enthusiasm for any history –history nerds only need apply!  You are achieving good marks in 2U history; eg a Band 4-6 level You’re interested in philosophy and ideas and/or arguing and debating You’re planning to do history at university. Other university subjects it will help with: research based, writing/essay based, law/communications/media etc You’d like to improve your understanding of the ideas and concepts, skills and practice of ancient and/or modern history

  21. Some final thoughts Windshuttlevs Reynolds Sparked the History Wars in Australia Polarised debate on Australian History Was Australia settled or invaded?

  22. Some final thoughts David Irving – Holocaust Denial Revises traditional history of the holocaust and Nazi Germany Denies the Holocaust Happened!!

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