Home Page for HIST 381

HIST 381: Australia & New Zealand

This is the home page for a course in the history of Australia and New Zealand taught at North Dakota State University by Professor Tom Isern. Students, this website is essential to your progress in the course. Everyone else, feel free to look around. Note: the course DOES NOT use Blackboard. It does, however, use Facebook as a medium of instruction, and so you need to have a Facebook account.

Administration & Assignments Lectures & Readings People & Connections
Administration
How Things Work

Goals
Evaluation
Record your own grades: Use This Excel File
Scholastic Honesty

Assignments

Response Papers
Attendance & Participation
Book Reviews
Primary Document Analysis
Geomodeling Project
Trove Research Project
Film & TV Reviews
Newspaper or Radio Report

Ozzie-Kiwi Culture Day

 Class Lectures
Welcome to My World

1. Native(s?): Aborigine & Maori

2. Geography: Taylor & Cumberland

3. Discovery: Terra Incognita & Aotearoa

4. Settlement: Convicts & Pilgrims

5. Economics: Empire and Dependency

6. Society: Ashes and All Blacks

7. Politics: Commonwealth and Dominion

8. Letters: Bush Ballads to Bulibasha

9. Diplomacy: Yankee Sidekicks or Second-Class Poms

10. History: Clark and Sinclair

Core Texts
Historians as Nation-Makers

Short History of Australia

History of New Zealand

 People
Who's in Charge?

Professor Tom Isern

Graduate Assistant Chad Halvorson
Office Hours M 4-5 & R 9-11

Resources

Bibliography
NZOZ Video
NZOZ Photos - site under reconstruction
Magazines

Bulletin DescriptionComprehensive, but not exhaustive, historical comparison of Australia and New Zealand. Organized topically to facilitate comparisons.
Accommodations for Persons with DisabilitiesAny students with disabilities who need accommodations in this course are encouraged to speak with Professor Isern as soon as possible to make appropriate arrangements.
General EducationMeets requirements for Humanities and Global Perspectives
AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgment and thanks are due to Fulbright New Zealand, Wellington, for supporting course development with a Programme Development Grant.