ATS3930 Encounters and empire: Europe and the world
Faculty of Arts
ATS3930 Encounters and empire: Europe and the world is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- Clayton
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for ATS3930. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before ATS3930
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS3930
No unit lists ATS3930 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: ATS2930
Prerequisite: Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.
Overview
From the medieval period onwards, expansion brought Europeans increasingly into contact with diverse cultures and civilizations. This unit explores how encounters between Europe and the world were transformed from the tentative and uncertain contacts that characterised earlier periods to the self-confident imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than analysing the broad sweep of political history, we are interested in the leading edge of cross-cultural encounters: in travellers, diplomats, and slaves who 'crossed-over' to engage with new cultural worlds, in the tools that made these encounters possible and in the commodities that underpinned global exchange.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Gain a broad understanding of the historical timeline of European expansion
- 2
Gain a clear understanding of key historical debates about the rise of the West
- 3
Gain a thorough understanding of how cross-cultural encounters changed over time
- 4
Gain a clear understanding of different theoretical approaches that historians have used to conceptualise Europe's encounters with the world
- 5
Explore the evolution of historical debates over Orientalism
- 6
Be able to recognize and analyse key historical themes in the history of cross-cultural encounters
- 7
Learn how to work with archival sources
- 8
Learn how to use visual sources (such as maps) effectively in research
- 9
Have further developed their oral and written communication skills
- 10
Have acquired independent research skills across a range of historical source areas.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Where it fits
ATS3930 is part of 2 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Bain Attwood
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Paula Michaels
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS3930?
ATS3930 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS3930 offered?
In 2020, ATS3930 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.
How much work is ATS3930?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Which majors and minors include ATS3930?
ATS3930 is part of History.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 3
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- History
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020