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Welcome to HIS181 Introduction to History (3 Points )
 
 
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School: School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Unit Description: Different societies and different groups within a society construct different histories. By analysing these different histories, students are introduced to the historian's craft and to the nature of historical knowledge. Topics: The European witch crazes; British colonisation of New South Wales and Aboriginal experience of invasion; 'Typhoid Mary's'; the significance of the 1914-18 War for Australia; Nazism and the 'Final Solution'; histories of Anne Frank; the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
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MURDOCH: Semester 1, Internal
MURDOCH: Semester 1, External
ROCKINGHAM: Semester 1, Internal
Contact Time: Lectures: 2 hours per week; tutorials: 1 hour per week.
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