Quite a decent unit if you enjoy history. The assessments include tutorial participation (15%), 1,000 word bibliographical exercise (15%), 2,000 word research essay (30%), and take-home exam (40%). The take-home exam was rather simple and easy to do well in if you write well! It involved writing two 1,000 word essays and two 1 page document exercises and is submitted online. It required no referencing which made it easy to do. Essentially it is a 'big' assignment and you are given a few weeks to do it meaning there is plenty of time to complete it even if you have other exams to study for (it took me four days to do it, spending 3 hours each day). To do well in this assessment, make sure to revolve your writing around the key themes of the unit which are mentioned regularly by Jeremy during the lectures and are all listed in the final lecture. The research essay was also straightforward and easy to do as long as you write well! The bibliographical exercise was very simple and involved finding four sources for your essay and writing a 250 word summary for each. For tutorials, my tutor, Melissa, was very nice and went through the readings well. The lecturer/coordinator, Jeremy, was also nice and went through the content of the unit well. However, there is a lot of content covered ranging from years 1250 to 1750, detailing all sorts of events. As a result, the unit could be quite boring. However, the assessments allow you to choose topics that interest you, meaning you don't need to have an understanding of everything covered. I averaged a high distinction for all the assessments even though I had no prior knowledge of the content covered, meaning this unit is best suited for people who enjoy history or are good at writing essays. TLDR: Quite an easy unit due to simple assessments, but can be quite boring.

Really good lecturer and intersting topics

Get prepped to do A HECK OF A LOT OF HISTORY !!!!!! This bad boy is packed 2 the brim w the history of bloody everything I guess (and not the cool YouTube video!) regardless, the exam is manageable bc the questions are given beforehand ! The assignments can be cranked out a couple days before and still get a great mark ! There’s some great history within the course but there are some topics that won’t b for u ! N that’s ok ! Bc it’s the history of EVERYTHING

It was a good started in general history, but the issues were 1) too much content trying to be covered, 2) susan's lectures always ran over time, 3) the course jumped all over countries and time periods with no flow or chronology, and 4) you get 0 help from the tutors, lecturers, and co-ordinator ( I was actually told by my tutor, who was marking my essay, that he couldn't help me because he had no idea what the essay was about because he didn't write the assignment. Same issues came during exams, I was told I couldn't email for help because that would give me an unfair advantage.) In short, it was a good starters in terms of what it covered, but the way it was done was messy, too general, and unorganised. If this was more concise and chronological, it could be a really good unit, especially if the tutors actually give you help.

interesting course and would recommend if you like history, however the content at times seemed disjointed and hard to find the connection between much of the lectures as the time period covered was so broad. Susan's lectures ran over time 90% of the time when a lot of the content could have been explained simpler. Unit coordinator didn't reply to a single one of my emails with questions about assignments which is a bit irritating. HIST1002 was a much better unit.

Big change from high school units in history. Very broad and sometimes difficult to see the connections. Lectures usually ran overtime and tried to fit too much content into lectures. Lectures also seemed random and not related to content at times. Jeremy was good at lecturing and bringing key points together, he taught his subjects well.

The lecturers and tutors are well versed in their historical knowledge, will always make time for you and try to explain the content with simplicity and expertise despite the fact that you cover 500 years in only a 12 week course

Good unit, well-organised and well-presented. Lecturers (and my tutor) were very knowledgeable and open to discussion. Perhaps a little too broad – lecturers were sometimes guilty of presenting topics in too much depth, and essay questions were similarly very broad. My advice for the major essay, which can be submitted twice (once at the semester mid-point and at the end of semester), is to focus on one specific element, rather than trying to cover too much in only 1,500 words, if I remember correctly. Do, however, reference the unit's overall themes. Make sure you do submit twice, as the greater of your two marks will count. From what I've heard, the unit does change slightly from year to year – it's good to see unit content being reviewed rather than remaining stagnant.