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Convicts in Context
Undergraduate | TAS-HAA105 | 2021
Course information for 2021 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
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Convicts in Context
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should gain:
- Familiarity with a range of criminal justice and civil record groups relevant to convicts and their descendants
- The ability to apply a range of analytical skills to convict and related records
- The ability to place an understanding of individual circumstances within a wider societal framework
- Unlocking secrets
- Convict bodies
- Living conditions
- Life courses
- Legacies
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.
- Module quizzes (40%)
- Transcription exercise (20%)
- Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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