Certificate of Achievement

Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke

has completed the following course:

Great South Land: Introducing Australian History

The University of Newcastle Australia

This online course covered key aspects of Australian history. A range of periods and topics were explored, including Aboriginal deep time history, transportation, convictism and colonialism. Skills and approaches used in the academic study of history were also introduced.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

John Fischetti

Pro Vice-Chancellor

The University of Newcastle Australia

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Apply a developing understanding of core historical concepts.
  • Demonstrate basic knowledge of key themes, events, and people in the history of Australia’s First Nations and the early decades of European occupation of the continent.
  • Interpret the Australian past within a local and global context.
  • Explain the contested nature of Australia’s early European history.
  • Identify foundational scholarly sources (primary and secondary, oral and written) relating to Australia’s early history.

Syllabus

  • Traditional Aboriginal society
  • Background to the British colonisation of Australia
  • Convictism
  • Relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Issued on 1st April 2020

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Free online course:

Great South Land: Introducing Australian History

The University of Newcastle Australia