Overview
Empires and colonisation were potent forces that shaped the modern world. This paper critically examines how these processes operated in New Zealand, assessing how they reshaped environments, communities, forms of economic organisation and social life. The interplay between cultural difference and power will be at the heart of the course: class, religion and gender as well as race will be key issues. Students will use a diverse array of primary source material, engage with a range of analytical methods, and assess a number of key scholarly debates in order to evaluate empire and colonisation, their power, their limits, and their legacies.
About this paper
| Paper title | A Topic in New Zealand History |
|---|---|
| Subject | History |
| EFTS | 0.1667 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,240.75 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Pre or Corequisite
- 48 300-level HIST points
- Contact
Professor Tony Ballantyne - history@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- Teaching staff
Coordinator and Lecturer: Professor Tony Ballantyne
- Teaching Arrangements
This paper is taught via seminars.
- Textbooks
- Course material will be made available electronically.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate different types of primary source material, how to use those sources to build historical arguments, and to critically assess the interpretations forwarded by researchers working in a range of traditions
- Have developed an understanding of the range of processes involved in the imperial intrusion into the Pacific and colonisation of New Zealand, and their variation in space and time
- Be able to interpret the colonisation of New Zealand in a range of contexts, including the development of te ao Māori, European imperial activity in the Pacific, and the operation of the British empire
- Be able to think about the nature of cultural difference, assessing the interplay between class, gender, religion and race and thinking through how these forms of understanding of human difference interacted with the social framework of te ao Māori
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate different types of primary source material, how to use those sources to build historical arguments, and to critically assess the interpretations forwarded by researchers working in a range of traditions