Overview

In this subject, students will learn the dimensions of research and publication in the writing of history. Students will develop the skills needed to create narratives using local, family, social or material history and to produce a piece of writing for publication in print and/or online.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Study Period 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
02-June-2025
31-August-2025
Last self-enrolment date
15-June-2025
Census date
23-June-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
18-July-2025
Results released date
23-September-2025
Study Period 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
02-June-2025
31-August-2025
Last self-enrolment date
15-June-2025
Census date
23-June-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
18-July-2025
Results released date
23-September-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify and critically evaluate the debates, methodologies, and techniques used to write, creatively interpret, and document historical events in a variety of forms and genres
  • Demonstrate the different writing skills and techniques required to create critically informed pieces of writing that engage with the debates, issues and varying elements of history
  • Conceptualise, plan, research, and produce a piece of writing that engages with, creatively illustrates, or interprets an aspect of history

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		11.54 13 week 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Online Discussion ThreadsIndividual/Group 40% 1,2,3 
Written AssignmentIndividual 60% 1,2,3 

Content

  • Various approaches to the writing of History
  • Understanding the process of writing a family history and genealogy
  • Writing from your own history
  • The key aspects of biography and writing about the history of others
  • Analysing the writing of historical fiction
  • Fictionalising from Real People
  • Writing about place
  • Writing about objects
  • Writing a local history
  • Considering alternative forms of writing history
  • Understanding theoretical approaches to the writing of history
  • Publication opportunities 
  • Graduate Attribute: Communication Skills - Communicating using different media
  • Graduate Attribute: Teamwork Skills - Collaboration and negotiation
  • Graduate Attribute: Digital Literacies  - Information literacy
     

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.