Courses Handbook 2010

312580 (v.1) Contested Knowledges: Truth, Lies and Memories 222


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
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.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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