Year 12 History Extension - Course Schedule for Term 4 2012

Week 3 Day Wednesday Thursday 4 Wednesday Thursday 5 Wednesday Thursday 6 Wednesday Topic Introduction to Historiography: What is it and how do we do it? Herodotus: His methodology and background Herodotus: The Father of History? Thucydides, Herodotus and Scientific History Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War and developments in Historiography Tacitus and the Problems in Claiming to be Impartial Bede's context in Christian philosophy and Historiography Bede's contribution to the development of Historical Writing Edward Gibbon's context and achievements Gibbon and the fall of the Roman Empire Discussing the Historical Investigation and What It Entails Required Reading for Preparation No reading required!! No reading required!! Herodotus and Historiography Thucydides and Historiography Book 1, Introduction of History of the Peloponnesian War Chapter I of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome Bede and Historiography Supplemental Reading (Recommended but still optional) No Recommended Reading Xerxes returning the Spartan Soldiers from The Histories Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies Thucydides chapter from Fifty Key Thinkers on History Pages 1-40 of A.J. Woodman's Rhetoric in Classical Historiography Tacitus chapter from Fifty Key Thinkers on History Read excerpt from Bede's Ecclesiastical Histories of Britain No Recommended Reading No Recommended Reading No Recommended Reading [What ever reading you feel you should do for your Historical Investigation]

Thursday 7 Wednesday Thursday

Textbook (Webb) chapter on Bede Edward Gibbon and Historiography Excerpt from the end of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire University of Sydney Handbook on Writing History Essays

Wednesday

Thursday

How to research effectively! Starting Research and Developing a Question Starting Research and Developing a Question

No reading required!!

Wednesday

No reading required!!

Thursday

No reading required!!

[What ever reading you feel you should do for your Historical Investigation] [What ever reading you feel you should do for your Historical Investigation] [What ever reading you feel you should do for your Historical Investigation]

Year 12 History Extension - Course Schedule for Term 1 2013

Week Monday, Week 2 Day Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Topic Leopold Von Ranke: Wie Es Eigentlich Gewesen Do as I say, not as I do - Von Ranke's battle with Bias and Imagination Karl Marx, Class Struggles and Revolutions Karl Marx, Historicity and Issues of Context Postmodernist Theory, Relativism and History Required Reading for Preparation Leopold Von Ranke and Historiography R.G. Collingwood - The Idea of History Supplemental Reading (Recommended but still optional) Chapter on Ranke from Is History Fiction? The History of History' from R.J. Evans' In Defence of History Introduction to The Communist Manifesto (Oxford Edition) Frederich Engels, The Principles of Communism Postmodernism and Historiography' AND OR 'Modernism, Postmodernism and Post-Postmodernism' Bill Ashcroft, 'Language and Race'

Monday, Week 3

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

The Communist Manifesto (All of it) Karl Marx and Historiography

Monday, Week 4

Lesson 1

What is Postmodernism?

Lesson 2

Edward Said, Orientalism and PostColonialism

Bill Ashcroft, 'Orientalism' AND Macaulay, 'On Indian Education'

Monday, Week 5

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

Michel Foucault and Hayden White Documentaries and Publically Accessible Histories The Carr/Elton Debate The Australian History Wars: The Reynolds/Windschuttle Debate

Part 1 of The History of Sexuality, 'We "Other Victorians" Jerry Kuehl, 'Truth Claims' Ken Webb, History Extension Textbook, Carr/Elton Ken Webb, History Extension Textbook , Reynolds/Windschuttle

Webb, History Extension Textbook: Hayden White and Keith Jenkins Jeffrey Youdelman, Narration, Invention and History Chapter 1 of What is History? , 'The Historian and His Facts' Macintyre, 'What do they say?' in The History Wars, pp 31-49

Monday, Week 6

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

End of Historian Studies - Beginning of Appeasement Unit