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2022 unit information
Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates.
Last updated: 4 March 2022
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
2022 is the final year of offer.
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AIH305, AIH405
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 1-hour seminar per week
1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
This unit focuses on questions of gender and sexuality within the British Empire, from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Looking at colonies across the world, in India, Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, we ask what roles women and men were expected to play, how women and men actually behaved, what sex and sexuality had to do with the Empire and how imperial power itself was gendered. Students will study the ways in which gender is relevant to understanding intellectual, political and social change in the history of the British Empire. Topics include: gender and indigenous peoples; masculinity and militarism; gender, convicts and slaves; sexuality and intimacy in the empire; race and gender; colonial families; feminism in the empire and gender in everyday life.
Interpret the social, cultural, political, and/or economic significance of gender and sexuality in a broad range of historical settings
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
Synthesise core historiographical debates surrounding the theme 'sex and gender' in the British Empire
Evaluate in a reflective and critical manner the impact of sex and gender discrimination in a diverse range of temporal and topical settings in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Construct ideas and arguments developed from their own research, and clearly and concisely communicate their findings in an essay format.
GLO3: Digital literacy
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.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIH205 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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