Undergraduate | MUR-HIS207 | 2024
The Silk Road: Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages
Build on your history studies with this exploration of the ancient trade route that connected China with the Mediterranean and European world. Spanning 1100 to 1500, you’ll discover how commerce and culture drove the exchange of goods and ideas.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Start dates
- 29 July 2024
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
Price from
$2,040
Upfront cost
$0
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The Silk Road: Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of key ideologies, themes, cultures and events that shaped contact between the Asian and European worlds in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and their enduring importance.
- Identify, interpret and use appropriate primary and secondary sources in the completion of a research project.
- Critically analyse historical evidence and scholarship, demonstrating an awareness of different conceptual approaches and how interpretations of the past might differ.
- Demonstrate articulate communication skills by constructing evidence-based arguments in an audio, digital, oral and/or written form.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in the conventions of the discipline.
- Our main topics are international commerce, political change and social history.
In this unit we study a set of events and processes that transformed the world in the period roughly 1100 to 1500. We will highlight differences in historical interpretations and different ways of understanding and practicing History. Our main topics are international commerce, political change and social history. The commerce that linked the then known world – that is, excluding the Americas, Australia and sub-Saharan Africa – paved the way for the later emergence of a European-dominated international system that emerged slowly after 1500. In this unit, we will see that sophisticated cultures, wealthy societies and aggressive conquests shaped the world at a time when Europe was largely a backwater.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
- Discussion and Engagement (30%)
- Research Paper (40%)
- Source Analysis (30%)
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Entry requirements
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To enrol in this subject, you must have passed a minimum of 12 credit points at 100-level.
Additional requirements
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0.125 EFTSL
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