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HISTY200-20A (HAM)
Pacific History
15 Points
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Kate Stevens
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kate.stevens@waikato.ac.nz
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Paper Description
Paper Structure
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:
Assessment
The course has 70% internal assessment and a 30% exam.
Each week, there will be a short quiz or written exercise based on the readings and the best ten marks will count towards the final grade (2% each for a total of 20%).
Students will also research and write a longer essay (30%), supported by an essay plan and annotated bibliography (20%).
Assessment Components
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
Required and Recommended Readings
Required Readings
Each week, students should read the set reading/s (and complete the Moodle quiz in alternate weeks) before tutorial. These readings will help you engage with the course themes in greater depth, as well as reflect on the practices of historical research and analysis.
For all required reading materials, see Waikato Reading List for paper HISTY200-20A via the Library. A link to the reading list will also be available on Moodle.
Recommended Readings
In addition to the set readings, the library holds a variety of useful general Pacific history books. These include:
David Armitage and Alison Bashford (eds.) Pacific Histories: Oceans, Lands, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Ron Borofsky (ed.), Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History (Honolulu:University of Hawaii, 2000).
I.C. Campbell, Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003).
Donald Denoon (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Kerry R. Howe, Where the Waves Fall: a new South Sea Islands history from first settlement to colonial rule (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984).
Kerry R. Howe, Robert C. Kiste, and Brij Lal (eds.), Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century (University of Hawaii Press, 1994).
David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rushes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Matt Matsuda, Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples and Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Nicholas Thomas, Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010).
These texts are available from the University library and a copy of each have been placed in the 'High Demand Collection' (formerly known as Course Reserve). For further information, see: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/services/borrowing/course-reserve
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Linkages to Other Papers
This paper links to our global and indigenous history courses. For example, in 2020 HISTY117 Global Histories will focus on the histories of oceans and particularly the Pacific, and HISTY301 explores global food histories which places sugar, plantations, and migrations across the Pacific in wider context. If you wish to learn more about the Pacific, its contemporary cultures and politics, you might also be interested in taking a Pacific Studies course.