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Demonstrate an understanding of conceptual approaches to interpreting the past
Identify and interpret both secondary and primary sources
Examine historical issues according to methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline
Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past
Construct an evidence-based argument 6. Identify and reflect on the knowledge and skills developed through the study of history.
Identify and reflect on the knowledge and skills developed through the study of history.
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This unit is fundamentally about the search for an Australian identity. Students will have an opportunity to:
• gain an enhanced understanding of the distinctive features of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history in the light of perceptions of Asia, including the cultural baggage carried by Australia’s first white inhabitants, Australia’s history of ‘dependent relations’ and external protectors, and how Australians have viewed the environment and their place in it.
• develop an awareness of longer term Australian and western ambivalence towards Asia.
• acquire a critical awareness of the contemporary implications of ‘Australia’s place on the outskirts of Asia’.
• examine aspects of the interaction between human history and the Australian environment, and the ideas that shaped that exchange.