Global Migration: People, Power and Mobility
UndergraduateLTU-HIS2GMN2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Global Migration: People, Power and Mobility
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Frame a line of argument about an aspect of migration history using primary and secondary sources.
- Assimilate historians' lines of arguments and use of visual and textual sources in relation to a particular historical problem, placing all in their contexts.
- In a team and individually, assess continuity and change in the different context of a past.
- Individually, investigate a small historical topic and frame a response in any one of a variety of history genres.
- Migration from Europe, Asia, and the Pacific in the 19th Century
- Colonial Migration Restrictions
- The Rise and Fall of White Australia
- Post-War Migration Waves
- Migrants vs Refugees
In Global Migrations, you will study the mass migrations from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific which shaped the modern world. We examine how migrations since 1800 occurred in response to labour force needs, resource booms, economic depression, and the effects of war and conflict. We explore forced relocation (slave trade, indentured labour, convict transportation); aspirational mobility (gold-seekers, assisted immigrants); and post war resettlement (displaced persons, refugees, asylum seekers). We consider government attempts to control populations, through immigration law, border control, deportation and internment, as well as challenges to such practices by human rights and justice movements. You will address the effects of racial ideology, gender and class and debate concepts of assimilation and multiculturalism. The subject enables you to develop independent research skills by investigating your own family migration stories. This is a second level subject. This subject includes live sessions and a field trip with the expectation of student attendance and participation.
- One individual enquiry based learning (EBL) research project presented in an essay, photo essay, podcast or video format (2250-words equivalent).Students are expected to share their preliminary and draft versions of their research assignment in wkshop. (55%)
- Workshop Activities Portfolio (900-words equivalent) (20%)
- One 1125-word essay (25%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 60 credit points at level one.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed HIS1GMS (Global Migration Stories) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
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