HIST2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Anthropocene, Peter Novick
[HIST2312] The History Makers (St Lucia). Semester 2, 2017
Lecture One – 24/07/17
Lecture Plan:
• How history has been written
• History writing
• Historiography in 20th century
• World since 1900
• Branch of literature of history
• History of history writing
• Professional discipline
Historians:
• Empiricists
• Marxists
• Post-colonial
• Post-modern
Historians and Philosophers:
• Peter Novick – The Noble Dream p6
Assessment:
• Fan lus and tute presentations (3 members) – 15-20 minutes + 500 words on topic within
one week of tute - 25%
o Wk1 Reflective Piece 5%
o Wk12 Summation 5%
o Tute Presentation 10%
o Participation 5%
• Short Essay 15% (week after tute presentation)
• Take-Home Exam 20% (Wk10)
• Research Essay 40% (6 Nov)
Weeks:
• 1; Intro
• 2; Golden Age – Empiricism
• 3; Marx and Revolutionaries
• 4; Freud – history of emotions and psychohistory
• 5; Global history – Annales
• 6; Culture – Anthropology
• 7; Storytellers – narrative
• 8; Personal and public history
• 9; Challenging patriarchy – women
• 10; No class
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