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Undergraduate | MAQ-MHIX1002 | 2023
Revolutions, Nationalism and Exploitation in the Modern World, 1789-2001
Study modern history across the world. You’ll explore revolutions, colonisation, and modernity. Uncover the darker side of economic growth—slavery, trafficking, and environmental plunder. Work on your academic skills, including research and essay writing.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 18 weeks
Start dates
- 24 July 2023
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- Identify core issues and problems in building historical knowledge.
- Treat information in an ethical manner.
- Build personal and communication skills through participation in seminar discussion.
- Build scholarly arguments in response to historical questions, drawing upon primary and secondary sources
- Revolutions
- Political revolutions of the modern world: including the French and the Russian Revolution, Industrial and urban revolution, demographic revolution, cultural revolution, sexual revolution, 'Third World' revolutions, the Digital revolution and the neoliberal revolution
- Nationalism
- La Patrie: France, Germany and the origins of modern nationalism
- Britain’s Imagined Communities
- Securing the Nation? Australia and the Asia Pacific
- National Liberation post 1945
- Exploitation
- Manifest Destiny: Dispossession and displacement
- The 'Nefarious Trade': Slavery
- Environmental Plunder: Extraction
- Third World Exploitation: Trafficking and Labour
Introduces students to foundational skills and concepts in the study of modern history from the late eighteenth century. Students will traverse the world from 1789 to 2001 looking closely at the role of revolution and the emergence of the nation-state, as well as the cost to humans and the natural world of economic growth and colonisation. Beginning with the French Revolution, the unit investigates conflict and change in the quest for equality and citizenship, telling the story of democratic aspirations in the modern world, including competing visions of modernity. It considers those excluded along with the new forms of solidarity and enmity created against the backdrop of rapid industrialisation, capitalism and environmental change. Students will build a foundational chronology of the modern world and develop skills such as critical and analytical thinking, effective communication and empathy.
- Essay Plan (20%)
- Research Essay (40%)
- Completion of a weekly blog (20%)
- Creative Reflection (20%)
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- 14
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- 10
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Additional requirements
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Study load
0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Student feedback
15 student respondents between: 01 Nov - 16 Nov 2022.
66%of students felt the study load was manageable
86%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following degrees
UndergraduateMAQ-ART-DEG
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