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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312580 (v.2) Contested Knowledges: Truth, Lies and Memories 222

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Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: History is written from the traces of the past, the artefacts of memory: archival documents, gossip, rumour, ancient maps and drawings, and media reports and contemporary narratives. We explore the complex relationships between memory and history, and the contestations that produce multiple narratives of the same event - conspiracy theories, convenient memories, plausible denial, the reinterpretation and revision of the evidence by new generations, and the repackaging of misinformation to look like fact. We consider why some accounts of the past are more plausible than others and what it takes to change a society's accepted version of what happened and why.
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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