Course overview
This course offers a comparative study of the relations between First Nations people and Anglo-European settlers in societies linked by their colonial origins: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It considers European ideas about race, land tenure and civilisation that accompanied the spread of settler colonialism from the seventeenth century. The course also explores how Aboriginal peoples responded to the coming of Europeans to their lands. Issues to be covered include: the bases for cooperation between Indigenous peoples and settlers, the causes of conflict between them, land rights, frontier violence, assimilation, Indigenous resistance, and the legacies of colonialism in settler-colonial states.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of colonialism and its impacts for Indigenous peoples in Britain's settler colonial empire.
- Demonstrate an ability to distinguish between different historical interpretations and different cultural perspectives
- Develop enhanced skills in research, synthesis, organisation and presentation of information
- Develop enhanced problem solving skills
- Learn the research skills necessary for working with primary sources
- Develop an ability to work independently on a research project
- Develop an ability to work cooperatively in the research and presentation of research outcomes
- Reflect critically on your participation in the tasks and your learning strategies