Details for Historical Theory and Method
This is a core subject in the BMin Humanities (Modern History) Major.
This subject will be replaced by HIS390 from Semester 1, 2023 onwards.
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: HIS290
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: Mark Hutchinson
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites:
Awards offering Historical Theory and Method
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Applied Social Science
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Ministry
- Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Theology
- Bachelor of Ministry
- Bachelor of Theology
- Diploma of Arts
- Diploma of Business
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Entrepreneurship
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Ministry
- Diploma of Chaplaincy
- Diploma of Chaplaincy and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Chaplaincy and Diploma of Ministry
- Diploma of Entrepreneurship and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Entrepreneurship and Diploma of Ministry
- Undergraduate Certificate in Arts
Unit Content
Outcomes
- Analyse and effectively communicate the nature of historiography and various key issues, actors and arguments.
- Analyse the context and effectively examine an existing school of historical thought, contrasting and constructing a viable alternative which integrates Christian faith and learning, in a form and at a level suitable to the discipline;
- Research, analyse and apply knowledge about a range of historiographical concepts and/or thinkers in ways which demonstrate an understanding of the historiographical enterprise.
- Examine the key writers and the secondary reflective literature in a bibliography which contrasts and differentiates two schools of historiography and demonstrates significant personal engagement.
Subject Content
- What is history?
- Institutional locations of history
- 'Science vs art' debate
- Objectivity debate and social history
- Use of social scienes in history
- The rise and fall of 'post-', mediated and popular histories
- 'Universal,' world and transnational histories in an absence of meaning
- Christian responses
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Onsite (on campus)
- Online (e-Learning)
- Intensive
Assessment Methods
- Case Study (25%)
- Major Essay (50%)
- Forum Postings (10%)
- Annotated Bibliography (15%)
Prescribed Text
- Primary readings provided