Making War Modern: From Revolutionary Soldier to Peacekeeper

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate schematic knowledge of major conflicts and efforts to make peace in modern history
  2. Analyse how empirical research and methodological debate has expanded and challenged existing historiography.
  3. Critically appraise the arguments of other historians (both theoretically and empirically).
  4. Locate, identify, read and analyse existing historical research with some guidance.
  5. Clearly communicate a point of view about the past using the terminology and techniques accepted in the historical profession in written form.
  6. Consider how war and peace are experienced differently (according to gender, race, class, sexuality and historical location).
  7. Examine and critically appraise popular histories and narratives of war and peace.

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• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

one of

• MAQ-MHIX1002-Revolutions, Nationalism and Exploitation in the Modern World, 1789-2001
• MAQ-POIX1080-Introduction to Global Politics

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-HST220 (Not currently available)

• MAQ-MHIX211 (Not currently available)

Others

NCCW (pre-2020 units) HST220, MHIS211, HIST253, MHIX211
Pre-requisite 40cp at 1000 level or above OR (10cp in HIST or MHIS or POL or POIR or MHIX or POIX units)
NCCW (2020 and onwards)
MHIS2011 Making War Modern: From Revolutionary Soldier to Peacekeeper

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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