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Historical Investigation
The historical investigation is designed to provide opportunities for all students to further develop relevant investigative, research and presentation skills that are the core of the historical inquiry process.
Students may:
· investigate a case study of their own, an aspect of a case study or an aspect of the Preliminary core study
The historical investigation can be integrated into any aspect of the Preliminary course and need not be completed as one project.
Topics may include:
a case study
You may want to use some of the following key terms in a web search to give you ideas to follow as you begin deciding what you would like to do:
Below are the other options in Year 11 that we have not chosen to study. Any of these can be used
The historical investigation is designed to provide opportunities for all students to further develop relevant investigative, research and presentation skills that are the core of the historical inquiry process.
Students may:
· investigate a case study of their own, an aspect of a case study or an aspect of the Preliminary core study
The historical investigation can be integrated into any aspect of the Preliminary course and need not be completed as one project.
Topics may include:
a case study
- aspects of a case study
- significant individuals, groups, events
- a thematic study
- specific sites or buildings
- aspects of everyday life
- historical debates
- myths and legends
- constructions of the past in various media
- The investigation must not overlap or duplicate significantly any topic attempted in the HSC courses or History Extension.
You may want to use some of the following key terms in a web search to give you ideas to follow as you begin deciding what you would like to do:
- Influential people that no one knows
- Political Assassinations
- Top 10 Most famous moments of the 20th century.
- Covert operations
- Famous Battle
- Terrorist attacks
- Coup d'etat
- Freedom Fighters
Below are the other options in Year 11 that we have not chosen to study. Any of these can be used
The trans-Atlantic slave trade
The Reign of Terror in France 1792–95 The social consequences of industrialisation in Britain in the early nineteenth century Yankees and Confederates in the American states in the mid-nineteenth century The Paris Commune 1871 Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette Movement The 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland and its consequences Bodyline bowling and the 1932–1933 Anglo-Australian test series The failure of the League of Nations The Civil Rights Movement in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s The struggle for Indigenous rights in Canada in the late twentieth century Post-Communist Russia |
The Indian Mutiny 1857
The Meiji Restoration: nature and impact The Boxer Rebellion in China The making of modern South Africa 1890–1910 The Netherlands East Indies in the early twentieth century The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1880s–1947 Decolonisation in Indochina 1945–1954 Nuclear testing in the Pacific 1950s to 1960s Allende, Pinochet and the 1973 military coup in Chile Ayatollah Khomeini and Muslim Fundamentalism Aung San Suu Kyi and the pro-democracy movement in Burma Tibet’s fight for survival in the modern world The Chinese Government and Tiananmen Square |