8569 (v.5) History 214 - Other Lives - The Power of Autobiography in History and Anthropology

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:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

7987 (v.5) Anthropology 212 - Other Lives - The Power of Autobiography in History and Anthropology
9673 (v.5) History 314 - Other Lives - The Power of Autobiography in History and Anthropology
9910 (v.5) Anthropology 312 - Other Lives - The Power of Autobiography in History and Anthropology

Prerequisite(s):

1438 (v.4) History 111 - History of India in the 17th Century or any previous version
AND
1439 (v.4) History 112 - The Modern World - The Rise and Fall of British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries or any previous version

Syllabus:

This course uses various types of autobiography from different historical periods to explore what life narratives reveal about the politics of identity (gender, ethnicity and class). It asks why life story has been such a popular source for understanding society, as well as a trigger for political action, for the last two hundred years. We explore questions of truth and lies, memory, ethics and relational identity. To further our understanding we will use extracts from famous autobiographies (BenjaminFranklin, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sally Morgan), as well as examining the performance of autobiography in oral cultures. Our central goal will be to reflect on the way in which life narrative influences our understanding of the past and the present.

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Field of Education:

090305 History

Funding Cluster:

03 - Humanities

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y			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