HIST3245
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
The historian George Rudé defines protest as a ‘social act (generally a collective act) that seeks to rectify an injustice, to ventilate a grievance of public concern, or to offer a more fundamental challenge to society or its established norm’. This course uses this definition as its basis to explore how protest has been employed as an expression of ideological, political and cultural belief in Australia from the period of European settlement on Aboriginal lands until the present. It explores global influences on changing popular understandings of protest from a historical perspective to analyse why people in Australia have protested and continue to protest.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Articulate protest as a historical form of self-expression;
2. Analyse the changing reasons for mass protest in Australia alongside societal changes;
3. Evaluate global influences on Australian protest movements;
4. Develop arguments about the history of protest in Australia and express these in a variety of written and creative assessments.
Content
The course will begin by discussing responses to European settlement by Indigenous groups. Other topics may include later frontier violence between European settlers and Indigenous groups, Eureka Stockade, late 19th century union protests, anti-war protests (South African War, World War One, World War Two, Vietnam, Iraq), anti-conscription protests (World War One, Vietnam), anti-vaccine protests (Spanish Flu, COVID pandemic), the Old and New Lefts, Aboriginal protest movements of the 20th-21st centuries (1938 Aboriginal Day of Mourning, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australian Bicentenary, Aboriginal Lives Matter), disability rights protests, LGBTQ protest, green/mining/climate change protests, refugee/asylum seeker protests and the feminist movements. These will be explored at a local and/or national level from a range of ideological, cultural and political perspectives.
Assumed knowledge
20 units in History at 1000 level or equivalent.
Assessment items
Online Learning Activity: Creative application of historical concepts
Annotated Bibliography: Annotated Bibliography
Essay: Research Essay
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
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.