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Undergraduate TAS-HAA105-2021

Convicts in Context

Enrolments for this year have closed. Keep exploring subjects.

Duration

6 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Required

UTAS
Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.

QS RANKING 2021

19

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

25

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should gain:

  1. Familiarity with a range of criminal justice and civil record groups relevant to convicts and their descendants
  2. The ability to apply a range of analytical skills to convict and related records
  3. The ability to place an understanding of individual circumstances within a wider societal framework
Topics covered
    • Unlocking secrets
    • Convict bodies
    • Living conditions
    • Life courses
    • Legacies
Entry requirements

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

TAS-HAA007-Convict Ancestors ;

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

Convicts in Context is a 100-level subject that builds on the skills and knowledge acquired in Convict Ancestors. It introduces you to advanced techniques that will assist you to understand convict lives, and help in situating these lives within larger contexts. The subject is designed to equip you with online learning skills and academic knowledge that consolidate your studies in genealogy and history. In this unit, you will learn a range of techniques that will help you to recover information about convict ancestors transported to the Australian penal colonies and their descendants. Drawing on an extensive database of 1.5 million records, you will learn how to place individual convict lives within a relevant wider context. This will enable you to understand more fully the circumstances that shaped the lives of your ancestors, their children, and their grandchildren. Topics will include how to make sense of information about occupation, height, age, and literacy; how to analyse tattoos and scar patterns; and to situate offending and health outcomes within the context of the wider factors that shaped the development of Australian colonial society.

Assessments

  • Module quizzes (40%)
  • Transcription exercise (20%)
  • Essay (40%)
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