HIST3152
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course traces the history and culture of racism since World War II, focusing on individuals as well as social trends that informed the twentieth century struggle for racial equality.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Online
- Semester 2 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): HIST3151. Students who have successfully completed HIST3151 are not eligible to enrol in HIST3152.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Understand the key issues and themes in the history of racism from World War II to the present.
2. Demonstrate knowledge about the history of racism from a wide range of historical sources, photographs and film.
3. Evaluate scholarship in the context of the history of racism.
4. Transmit knowledge of the history of racism in written and oral forms.
Content
This course surveys global racism since the end of World War Two and the founding of the United Nations in 1940s through to the 2020s. The course will use case studies from a range of sites including India, China, Vietnam, Mexico, the Soviet Union and the United States to survey the changing nature of racism in the making of the post war world. The course will analyse the UN Charter and the struggle for definition, decolonisation and the postcolonial reality the emergence of new media, conflict and protest, and Black Lives Matter. In exploring these areas the course asks more philosophical questions such as what is racism and what is its relationship to both poverty and power.
Requisite
Students cannot enrol in this course if they have previously successfully completed HIST3151.
Assumed knowledge
20 units in History at 1000 level or equivalent.
Assessment items
In Term Test: In Term Test
Quiz: Online Quiz x 1
Annotated Bibliography: Annotated Bibliography
Essay: Written Assignment
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 11 week(s) starting in week 2
Semester 2 - 2024 - Online
Lecture-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 11 week(s) starting in week 2
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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