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Course Staff

Dr Paul Sendziuk (Co-convenor)
paul.sendziuk@adelaide.edu.au

Dr Robert Foster (Co-convenor)
robert.foster@adelaide.edu.au

A reading pack, containing the texts that need to be read prior to each tutorial discussion, will be available for purchase at the start of the course from the Image and Copy Centre.

A reading list identifying the articles and chapters that are required to be read prior to the tutorial discussions will be distributed during the first week of semester. (It will be available on the subject's MyUni webpage in the week before classes begin.)

There is no 'textbook' for this course. The following books provide accessible and interesting overviews of Australian history and it would be useful to own one of them for reference purposes.

Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, Melbourne: Thompson, 2008.

The course has a website, accessible through MyUni. Please consult it regularly for updates, lecture notes, additional resources.

The University has access to a number of academic journals that have full text articles available online. Use the ‘Informit’ and ‘APAIS’ (APA-FT) databases (on the Library’s catalogue) to locate articles in these journals (particularly Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Aboriginal History, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Australian Colonial History, and Australian Journal of Politics and History).

Librarians at the Barr-Smith library have also compiled a very useful guide to sources on Australian History held by the University. This can be accessed online at:
http://libguides.adelaide.edu.au/australia 

Face-to-face teaching on campus consisting of two lectures and one tutorial per week. Classes begin in Week 1 of semester. Student groups will also visit either (or both) the archives/manuscript section of the State Library and the State Records of South Australia.

Attendance at the lectures is important as they provide the context for the tutorial discussions and introduce themes and personalities that students will encounter in the more sophisticated tutorial readings. The final quiz will be based on information provided in the lectures.

Students will need to devote approximately 12 hours per week to this course (divided over 12 weeks of study). This consists of 2 x 1-hour lectures and one tutorial per week, and 9 hours per week of independent study, during which time students will prepare for tutorials and work on assignments.

The following lecture and tutorial topics are indicative only and subject to change. Course material is constantly being updated and revised to incorporate the latest scholarship and topics of debate. 

Schedule

Week 1	Introduction	1. Looking for Australians: Introduction to the course 2. Australia’s first inhabitants and European exploration Tutorial: Introduction
Week 2	The Decision to Colonise and to Come	1. Decision to colonise Australia 2. Who were the convicts? Tutorial: Convicts and their nature: 'more sinned against than sinning'?
Week 3	History in the Making	1. Making history in the archives : Researching in State Records and the State Library 2. A picture speaks a thousand words - discovering Australian History through colonial art  Tutorial: Field work trip to either the State Archives or the State Library
Week 4	Frontiers, Foundations and Historiographical Controversies	1. Aboriginal resistance and violence on the frontier 2. Penal settlements and freedom Tutorial: Frontier violence
Week 5	Unruly Settlement	1. No Convicts Here: South Australia’s Foundation Myth  2. Bigge, Molesworth and the end of convict transportation in NSW Tutorial: Convict women, work and sexuality
Week 6	Founding WA and SA and the Rule of Law	1. The Proposition - screening of the film 2. A tale of two colonies: Founding WA (Swan River) and SA Tutorial: South Australia and the rule of law
Week 7	The Rush that Never Ended	1. The social and economic impact of the discovery of gold - the key turning point in 19thC history?  2. Democracy and responsible government Tutorial: Eureka! We’ve struck gold!
Week 8	Land Settlement & Environmental History	1. The great land grab: squatters and selectors 2. Droughts and flooding rains: Water dreamers on the margins of the good earth Tutorial: Squatters, selectors and the Kelly Outbreak
Week 9	City and the Bush, 'Proddies' and 'Cathlicks'	1. The Bush Legend, the Pioneer Legend, the Australian Legend 2. Urbanisation and modernity in late Colonial Australia Tutorial: Sectarian strife
Week 10	Workers, Unions and Migrants	1. A working man’s paradise?  2. The motives for immigration restriction and the White Australia Policy Tutorial: The Great Strike and the rise of labour
Week 11	Social Protest and Political Change	1. More than the vote: Advancements for women 2. Feedback on the research essay Tutorial: Explaining the emergence of 'first wave' Australian Feminism
Week  12	Colonial Nationalism	1. Australians at war 2. Answering the Big Questions in Australian colonial history - course recap Tutorial: Proto-nationalist sentiment in the Australian colonies

Participation in tutorials is a compulsory component of the course. Students must attend at least 80% of tutorials to pass (unless a medical certificate is provided or extra written-responses to the tutorial questions are submitted). Please inform your tutor prior to the tutorial if you are unable to attend. It is often possible to ‘make-up’ a tutorial at another time.

1. Research Essay
Students are required to write one 3,000-word research essay, based on both primary and secondary sources. You may choose from a list of topics (to be provided), or devise your own with the approval of your tutor. You will need to critically engage with the historiography related to the topic, and vigorously construct an argument with reference to primary and secondary source evidence. As much as possible, try to draw substantially on primary sources of evidence.


2. In-Class Group Debate
Students will form teams of 3 members and have 2-3 weeks to prepare an argument ‘for’ or ‘against’ a statement relating to a historical issue. Teams will then present their argument in the form of an Oxford-style debate to take place during tutorial in Weeks 8-11. For example, if the statement is “The discovery of gold in 1851 was the most important turning point in colonial Australian history”, individuals on one team will take turns in making arguments in agreement with this statement and they will be opposed by a team disagreeing with them. Students will be assessed on the basis of the logic and validity of their argument, their use of examples to support their points, their level of organisation and team-work, and their ability to communicate with passion and persuasion. There will also be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and assess the performance (using the above criteria).

Alternative Exercise: Critical Review of Three Books
Students who choose not to participate in the group project will write a 2500-word critical review of three books selected from the reading list corresponding to a tutorial topic. Students are required to read the books in their entirety before the applicable tutorial and can submit their critical review anytime before Week 12.

In writing your critical review, students should consider the following points:

1. What are the authors aiming to do? Are they successful in fulfilling these aims?
2. What do the authors argue?
3. How do the authors deal with opposing arguments?
4. What types of evidence do the authors use to construct their arguments? Is this evidence convincing? What evidence do the authors ignore?
5. Are the authors influenced by a particular theory or methodological approach? Is this approach warranted?
6. Are the authors’ arguments convincing? (You should assess this by comparing the different arguments and evidence presented by each author. You might also consult 2-3 other texts on the same topic.)
7. What special tricks or strategies do the writers employ to make their points? These strategies may include the organisation of the text and the choice of language and examples.

In order to see how professional historians and critics organise and write book reviews, students might wish to read some. The journals Australian Historical Studies and Journal of Australian Studies contain generally well-written book reviews in every edition.

3. Final Quiz
The final quiz will consist of 30 short-answer questions. They will be based entirely on content delivered in the lectures. Thus those students who attend regularly and review their notes will thus be rewarded. The duration of the quiz will be 1 hour.

All essays are to be submitted electronically via MyUni - this is a two-step process. The essay needs to be electronically submitted for marking via the ‘Assignments’ link in the course menu. It then needs to be submitted separately to Turnitin, which is also done via the MyUni site. Marked assignments will be returned to the student in printed form.

Essays must be submitted BEFORE 12pm (noon) on/before the due date. A record will be kept of the date of submission.

Extensions will be given on the grounds of hardship or illness. If, as often happens, several essays are due close to each other, you should plan your schedule so that you complete one or more before the deadline. Applications for an extension should be made in writing and submitted to your tutor well before the date that the assignment is due.

Students who submit an essay late, without having gained an extension, will be liable to a penalty of 3% per day that the essay is overdue. Depending on the circumstances, essays more than five days late (including weekends) will be eligible for a Pass or Fail grade only.