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2025 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Nil
1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
This unit introduces students to gender, race and sexuality as categories of historical analysis, by studying new histories of colonisation and decolonisation in the modern world. In the two hundred years after 1750, much of the world's land mass was claimed by European empires as their colonial territories. Colonisation and resistance to colonisation have shaped the world in profound ways that continue to impact each one of us. In trying to understand why Europeans tried to colonise the world, what impact colonisation has had and how colonisation was and is resisted, historians have focused on gender, race and sexuality. In this unit we explore gender, race and sexuality as categories of historical analysis which can illuminate the experience and impact of Empire. Looking at sites across the world, in India, North America, the continent of Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, we ask what gendered roles people were expected to play, how people conformed to or resisted these expectations, how gender, race and sexuality were entangled in imperial ideology and practice and how imperial power itself was gendered. We also consider how the impacts of imperialism endure today.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Define the social, cultural, political, and/or economic significance of gender and sexuality as categories of historical analysis.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Describe and consider Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives on historic causes, experiences, impacts and long-term effects of European imperialism.
GLO8: Global citizenship
Analyse and evaluate the relationship between gender and race in the historic practices and ideologies of European empires.
Design and undertake a research project relating to one of the unit topics and design an appropriate form in which to effectively communicate the results of this project.
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital Literacy
Select and apply appropriate historical theories and methodologies to develop a critical analysis of gender race and sexuality in colonial contexts.
GLO4: Critical Thinking
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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