Making War Modern: From Revolutionary Soldier to Peacekeeper

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will have:

  1. a schematic knowledge of major conflicts and efforts to make peace in modern history
  2. an understanding of how empirical research and methodological debate has expanded and challenged existing historiography.
  3. the ability to locate, identify, read and analyse original documents from a variety of sources and perspectives with some guidance; to summarise, transcribe and catalogue information as appropriate.
  4. the ability to critically evaluate the arguments of other historians (both theoretically and empirically).
  5. an ability to locate, identify, read and analyze existing historical research with some guidance
  6. understand the ways in which war and peace are experienced differently (according to gender, race, class, sexuality and historical location)
  7. an ability to consider how practices of remembrance are shaped by political contexts

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

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-War and Peace in World History (no longer available)

Others

Students should have studied some History at Level 1 prior to doing this subject. They should have good written English and essay writing skills.

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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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