Australia's History
UndergraduateTAS-HTA2062027
Course information for 2027 intake View information for 2026 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 14 Feb 2027
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,328
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Australia's History
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Interpret textual, visual and material sources relevant to Australian history.
- Analyse key events, developments, actors and institutions that have shaped Australian history.
- Communicate descriptively and analytically about sources, historic events and developments, and historiography in the Australian context.
- Deep time
- Global imperialism and settler colonialism
- Rationalising genocide
- Convicts, enslaved peoples and penal settlements
- The gold rushes
- The rise of Australian democracy
- A white Australia?
- Families and the nation
- Aboriginal assimilation and self-determination
- Australia at war
- 1960s and 1970s: counterculture and rights
- 1980s to the millennium: politics and culture
- 21st Century challenges: The Voice and climate change
Subject formerly titled "Australian History in a Global Context".
How have successive generations made and remade communities, nation, relationships, homes, values, identities and environments across Australia’s history? This subject explores Australian history from deep time to the present, introducing and analysing key events and developments, including peopling the continent, British invasion and colonisation, Indigenous survival and sovereignty, convicts and free settlers, making modern democratic and public institutions, shaping the nation through war and migration, creating and challenging political, economic and social structures, and Australia’s connections with the wider world. With sensitivity to previous historical interpretations and ways of framing historical analysis, this subject engages deeply with the rich trove of digitised materials available to Australian historians to further develop skills in primary source analysis.
- Learning Portfolio (25%)
- Primary Source Annotation Project (35%)
- Research Essay and Interview (40%)
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Entry requirements
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Conditional Requisite: 25 UTAS credit points (two subjects) at Introductory level or higher
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Weekly online lectures (approximately 90 minutes) and additional supplementary and optional learning materials. Weekly 2-hour Zoom tutorial; options for asynchronous participation.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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