Course overview
- Study period
- Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024)
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Location
- St Lucia
- Attendance mode
- In Person
- Units
- 2
- Administrative campus
- St Lucia
- Coordinating unit
- Human Movement & Nutrition Sci
The course critically examines representations of the Australia's sporting past through the lenses of memorials, museums, film and the internet. As part of this approach, there is a focus on Australian sporting icons including Les Darcy, Dawn Fraser, Eddie Gilbert, Peter Norman and Michael O'Loughlin as well as the Australian Sport Museum (Melbourne), the Ration Shed Museum (Cherbourg) and the Australian Paralympic Movement.
The course critically examines representations of Australia's sporting past through the lenses of memorials, museums, film and the Internet. As part of this approach, there is a focus on understanding how memorials, museums, film and the Internet, in conjunction with written history, represent the sporting past. Within the context of written and non-written forms of history, there are case studies of Australian sporting icons including Les Darcy, Dawn Fraser, Eddie Gilbert, Peter Norman and Michael O'Loughlin as well as the Australian Sport Museum (Melbourne), and the Ration Shed Museum (Cherbourg).ᅠ
Course requirements
Assumed background
HM 109 or HM 119 or HM 117 or HMST 1910 or HMST 2190 or any History first level course.
Course contact
Course staff
Course coordinator
Lecturer
Timetable
The timetable for this course is available on the UQ Public Timetable.
Additional timetable information
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Aims and outcomes
To develop an appreciation of the historical process with a specific focus on Australian sport and physical activity.
Learning outcomes
After successfully completing this course you should be able to:
LO1.
exhibit a range of critical and reflective skills in relation to the historical dimension of Australian sport and physical activity
LO2.
situate sport and physical activity in a broad historical context
LO3.
comprehend critical dimensions of Australian sport history
Assessment
Assessment summary
Category | Assessment task | Weight | Due date |
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Essay/ Critique |
Written Paper
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40% |
30/09/2024 4:00 pm |
Examination, Quiz |
Multiple Choice Quizzes
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35% |
Weeks 4,7,11,13 |
Performance, Presentation |
Seminar Presentation
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15% |
Assigned in class (available weeks: 5-12) |
Participation/ Student contribution | Seminar Participation | 10% |
Ongoing |
Assessment details
Written Paper
- Online
- Mode
- Written
- Category
- Essay/ Critique
- Weight
- 40%
- Due date
30/09/2024 4:00 pm
- Other conditions
- Student specific.
Task description
Task Description: You are to research and write an essay (2000 words) on a critical issue in Australian sport history. You may choose one of the following topics:
· Sport is as Australian as ‘Kangaroos, Holden Cars and Meat Pies!’ Argue for, against or in between this statement using history of sport examples to make your case.
· Using examples from the history of sport describe and analyse the process of commodification of Australian sport.
· How important is an appreciation of sport history to sport journalism? Find cases studies in the history of sport to support your answer.
· Sports have always attracted spectators. Using specific examples in a range of sports, critically evaluate the history of sport marketing in Australia.
· ‘Winning isn’t everything: it is the only thing’: To what degree does the history of Australian sport epitomise this saying?
· Sport for Aboriginal people has always been a double-edged sword. Use historical examples to support your position.
See HIST3002 Blackboard Site for more detail.
Submission guidelines
See HIST3002 Blackboard Site for more detail.
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
Late submission
A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.
Multiple Choice Quizzes
- Identity Verified
- In-person
- Mode
- Written
- Category
- Examination, Quiz
- Weight
- 35%
- Due date
Weeks 4,7,11,13
- Other conditions
- Student specific.
Task description
There will be four quizzes (Weeks 4,7,11,13) held online during lecture time. Each quiz will be worth 10%, except Quiz 4 which will be worth 5%.
See HIST3002 Blackboard Site for more detail.
Exam details
Planning time | no planning time minutes |
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Duration | 10 minutes |
Calculator options | No calculators permitted |
Open/closed book | Closed Book examination - no written materials permitted |
Exam platform | Other |
Invigilation | Invigilated in person |
Submission guidelines
Deferral or extension
You may be able to defer this exam.
Late submission
Exams submitted after the end of the submission time will incur a late penalty.
Your new quiz date and time will be determined by the course coordinator and communicated to you via your UQ student email account.
Seminar Presentation
- Team or group-based
- In-person
- Mode
- Activity/ Performance, Oral
- Category
- Performance, Presentation
- Weight
- 15%
- Due date
Assigned in class (available weeks: 5-12)
Task description
In groups of 2-3 you will research, prepare and present a 30-minute presentation, including fielding questions and facilitating discussion. There are four modes of representation from which you can choose. Each of these modes represents a different way of telling stories about the sporting past.
See HIST3002 Blackboard Site for more detail.
Submission guidelines
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
Extensions are considered in line with UQ Assessment Procedures and will be negotiated with the Demonstrator.
Late submission
A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.
Seminar Participation
- Mode
- Oral
- Category
- Participation/ Student contribution
- Weight
- 10%
- Due date
Ongoing
Task description
Students will be assessed on their engagement with seminar content and discussion.
Submission guidelines
Deferral or extension
You cannot defer or apply for an extension for this assessment.
Please see additional assessment information for what to do if you cannot attend a compulsory seminar activity.
Course grading
Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.
Grade | Cut off Percent | Description |
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1 (Low Fail) | 0 - 24 |
Absence of evidence of achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Fails to satisfy most or all of the basic requirements of the course. |
2 (Fail) | 25 - 44 |
Minimal evidence of achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Fails to satisfy some of the basic requirements of the course. Clear deficiencies in performance, but evidence that some basic requirements have been met. |
3 (Marginal Fail) | 45 - 49 |
Demonstrated evidence of developing achievement of course learning outcomes Course grade description: Fails to satisfy all basic requirement for pass but is close to satisfactory overall and has compensating strengths in some aspects. |
4 (Pass) | 50 - 64 |
Demonstrated evidence of functional achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Satisfies all of the basic learning requirements for the course, such as knowledge of fundamental concepts and performance of basic skills; demonstrates sufficient quality of performance to be considered satisfactory or adequate or competent or capable in the course. |
5 (Credit) | 65 - 74 |
Demonstrated evidence of proficient achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Demonstrates ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills of the course, going beyond mere replication of content knowledge or skill to show understanding of key ideas, awareness of their relevance, some use of analytical skills, and some originality or insight. |
6 (Distinction) | 75 - 84 |
Demonstrated evidence of advanced achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Demonstrates awareness and understanding of deeper and subtler aspects of the course, such as ability to identify and debate critical issues or problems, ability to solve non-routine problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new situations, and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas. |
7 (High Distinction) | 85 - 100 |
Demonstrated evidence of exceptional achievement of course learning outcomes. Course grade description: Demonstrates imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in all the learning objectives for the course; work is interesting, surprising, exciting, challenging or erudite. |
Additional course grading information
A final percentage mark will be rounded to the nearest whole number (e.g. 64.50 and above will be rounded to 65 and 64.49 and below will be rounded down to 64.)
Supplementary assessment
Supplementary assessment is available for this course.
Additional assessment information
I’ve missed a compulsory seminar?
Students are permitted to miss zero seminarsᅠfor HIST3002 without receiving approval.
Students must complete theᅠSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences - absentee formᅠavailable from the HMNS website and submit via email to m.phillips@uq.edu.auᅠno later than five (5) calendar days after the date the original class was held.
Absences on medical grounds:ᅠᅠThis form must be accompanied by a medical certificate signed by a medical practitioner, registered pharmacist or registered nurseᅠno later than two (2) calendar days after the missed classᅠand stating that the student was unfit to attend on the relevant day.ᅠ
Students are required to confirm, by signing theᅠSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences – absentee form, that the medical practitioner is NOT a near relative or close associate (Examples of near relatives are partner, child, brother, sister, or parent. Examples of close associates are close friends, neighbours and partners or children of colleagues.)ᅠ
Absences on non-medical grounds:ᅠThis form must be accompanied by a signed document (Statutory Declaration) detailing the grounds for the application supported by any corroborating information.
Link to absentee form:ᅠhttps://hmns.uq.edu.au/current-students/undergraduate-support
All absentee documentationᅠis to be submitted, within the aforementioned timeframe, to your tutorᅠandᅠcourse-administrator.ᅠᅠ
Learning resources
You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.
Library resources
Find the required and recommended resources for this course on the UQ Library website.
Additional learning resources information
Required Resources
Week 1: Introduction
Pope, S.W. and John Nauright, "Introduction" inᅠPope, S.W. and John Nauright (eds),ᅠRoutledge Companion to Sports Historyᅠ(London: Routledge, 2010), 5-11.ᅠ
Phillips, Murray G., Douglas Booth and Carly Adams, "Introduction" in Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams (eds),ᅠRoutledge Handbook of Sports History (London: Routledge, 2022), 1-6.
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Week 2: Representing the Past: Beyond the Written Word
Phillips, Murray G., Mark E O'Neill, and Gary Osmond. "Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs and Monuments."ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ34, no. 2 (2007): 401-21.
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Week 3: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials
Phillips, Murray G., and Katharine Moore. "The Champion Boxer Les Darcy: A Victim of Class Conflict and Sectarian Bitterness in Australian During World War One."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ11, no. 1 (1994): 102-14.
Week 4: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials
Film: 'N' Lovers
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Week 5: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials
Osmond, Garyᅠand Murray G. Phillips. “Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert”,ᅠAustralian Aboriginal Studies,ᅠno. 1 (2014): 16-32.
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Week 6: Staging the Past: Sport Museums
Phillips, Murray G., "Introduction" in Murray G. Phillips (ed),ᅠRepresenting the Sporting Past in Museums and Hall of Fameᅠ(New York: Routledge, 2012), 1-26.
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Weekᅠ7: Staging the Past: Sport Museums
Hardy, Stephen, John Loy, and Douglas Booth. "The Material Culture of Sport: Toward a Typology."ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ36, no. 1 (2009): 129-52.
Phillips, Murray G., and Richard Tinning. "Not Just 'a Book on the Wall': Pedagogical Work, Museums and Representing the Sporting Past."ᅠSport, Education and Societyᅠ16, no. 1 (2011): 51-66.
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Week 8: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History
Richards, Jeffrey. "Film and Television: The Moving Image" in Sarah Barberᅠand Corinna Peniston-Bird (eds),ᅠHistory Beyond the Text : A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sourcesᅠ(London: Routledge, 2009), 72-88.
Week 9: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History
Osmond, Gary, and Murray G. Phillips. "Reading Salute: Filmic Representations of Sports History."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ28, no. 10 (2011): 1463-77.
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Week 10: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History
Film:ᅠThe Final Quarter
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Week 11: Digital History's Private Face
Osmond, Gary and Murray G. Phillips, 'Introduction: The Bones of Digital History' in Gary Osmondᅠand Murray G. Phillips (eds),ᅠSport History in the Digital Eraᅠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 1-32.
Phillips, Murray G., Gary Osmond and Stephen Townsend, "A Bird's-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History."ᅠThe International Journal of Sport Historyᅠ32, no. 15 (2015): 1725-1740.
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Week 12: Digital History's Public Face
Osmond, Gary and Murray G. Phillips, 'Conclusion:ᅠDigital History flexes its Muscle' in Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips (eds),ᅠSport History in the Digital Eraᅠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 251-269.
Website: Australian Paralympic History
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Recommended Resources
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Week 1: Introduction
Phillips, Murray G. "Introduction: Sport History and Postmodernism." InᅠMurray .G Phillips (ed),ᅠSport History into the New Millennium: A Postmodern Analysisᅠ(New York: SUNY Press, 2006), 1-24.
Polley, Martin.ᅠSports History: A Practical Guide. (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2007).
“Sport History and the Cultural Turn.”ᅠSporting Traditionsᅠ27, no. 2 (2010).
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Week 2: Representing the Past: Beyond the Written Word
Phillips, Murray G., Mark E O'Neill, and Gary Osmond. "Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs and Monuments."ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ34, no. 2 (2007): 401-21.
Smith, Maureen. "Sport and Material Culture" in Murray G.ᅠPhillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams (eds),ᅠRoutledge Handbook of Sports Historyᅠ(London: Routledge, 2022), 65-73.
Weeks 3-5: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials
O'Neill, Mark. "Remembering Johnny Mullagh: Australia's History Wars and Shifting Memories of an Aboriginal Cricketer." InᅠRob Hess (ed),ᅠMaking Histories, Making Memoriesᅠ(Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History, 2006), 1-22.
Osmond, Gary, Murray G Phillips, and Mark O'Neill. "'Putting up Your Dukes': Statues, Social Memory and Duke Kahanamoku."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ23, no. 1 (2006): 82-103.
Osmond, Garyᅠand Murray G. Phillips, “Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert”,ᅠAustralian Aboriginal Studies,ᅠno. 1 (2014):ᅠ16-32.
Schultz, Jaime. "Contesting the Master Narrative: The Arthur Ashe Statue and Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1235-51.
Smith, Maureen Margaret. "'Frozen Fists in Speed City': The Statue as 21st Century Reparations."ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ36, no. 3 (2009): 401-20.
Smith, Maureen Margaret. "Mapping America's Sporting Landscape: A Case Study of Three Statues."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1252-68.
Sydnor, Synthia. "Sport, Celebrity and Liminality." In Noel Dyck (ed),ᅠGames, Sports and Culturesᅠ(Oxford: Berg, 2000), 221-41.
Weeks 6-7: Staging the Past: Sport Museums
Adair, Daryl. "When the Games Never Cease: The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland." InᅠBrent W. Richie and Daryl Adair (eds),ᅠSport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issuesᅠ(Clevedon: Channel View Publications, 2004), 46-76.
Harris, Kathryn Leann and Douglas Stark,ᅠInterpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 2023).
Moore, Kevin, John Hughson and Christian Wacker (eds),ᅠSports in Museums (Routledge, London, 2022).
Osmond, Gary, and Murray G. Phillips. "Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠᅠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1138-55.
Phillips, Murray G. "A Historian in the Museum: Story Spaces and Australia's Sporting Past."ᅠAustralian Historical Studiesᅠ41, no. 3 (2010): 396-408.
Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary, and Sandra Morgan. "Indigenous Sport and Heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum."ᅠJournal of Heritage Tourismᅠ9, no. 3 (2014): 212 - 227.
Rethinking Historyᅠ16, no. 4 (2012).
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Weeks 8-10: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History
Hughes-Warrington, Marnie.ᅠHistory Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film (London: Routledge, 2007).
Hughson, John. "Sport and History on the Ground: Documentary and the Feature Film."ᅠSport in Societyᅠ12, no. 1 (2009): 118-33.
O'Neill, Mark, and Murray G. Phillips. "Sport, Film and Australian Cultural Identity: ReadingᅠHero to a Nation."ᅠSport History Reviewᅠ41, no. 1 (2010): 1-16.
Phillips, Murray G. "An Athletic Clio: Sport History and Television History."ᅠRethinking Historyᅠ12, no. 3 (2008): 399-416.
Rosenstone, Robert A.ᅠHistory on Film/Film on History (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2006).
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Weeks 11-12: Digital History's Private and Public Faces
Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig.ᅠDigital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
de Groot, Jerome.ᅠConsuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 2009).
O'Sullivan, Dan.ᅠWikipedia: A New Community of Practice?ᅠ(Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).
Osmond, Gary andᅠMurray G. Phillips, ed.ᅠSport History in the Digital Eraᅠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015).
Phillips, Murray G.,ᅠ “Wikipedia and History: A Worthwhile Partnership in the Digital Era?”,ᅠRethinking Historyᅠ20, no. 4 (2015): 523-543.
Phillips, Murray G.,ᅠGary Osmond, and Stephen Townsend, ‘A Bird’s Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading, and Sport History’,ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ32, no. 15 (2015): 1725-1740.
Rosenzweig, Roy. "Sport History on the Web: Towards a Critical Assessment."ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ31, no. 3 (2004): 371-76.
Rosenzweig, Roy.ᅠClio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
Sterling, Jennifer J, Murray G. Phillips, Mary G. McDonald, Doing Sport History in the Digital Present.ᅠJournal of Sport Historyᅠ44, no. 2 (2017): 135-145.
Townsend, Stephen.,ᅠOsmond, GaryᅠandᅠMurray G. Phillips. "Wicked Wikipedia? Communities of Practice, the Production of Knowledge and Australian Sport History."ᅠThe International Journal of the History of Sportᅠ30, no. 5 (2013): 545 - 59.
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Learning activities
The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.
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Learning period | Activity type | Topic |
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Week 1 (22 Jul - 28 Jul) |
Lecture |
1 Introduction |
Week 2 (29 Jul - 04 Aug) |
Lecture |
2 Representing the Past: History beyond the Written Word |
Week 3 (05 Aug - 11 Aug) |
Lecture |
3 Memoralising the Past: Sport Memorials |
Week 4 (12 Aug - 18 Aug) |
Lecture |
4 Memorialising the Past: Sport Memorials |
Week 5 (19 Aug - 25 Aug) |
Lecture |
5 Memorialising the Past: Sport Memorials |
Week 6 (26 Aug - 01 Sep) |
Lecture |
6 Staging the Past: Sport Museums |
Week 7 (02 Sep - 08 Sep) |
Lecture |
7 Staging the Past: Sport Museums |
Week 8 (09 Sep - 15 Sep) |
Lecture |
8 Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History |
Week 9 (16 Sep - 22 Sep) |
Lecture |
9 Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History |
Week 11 (07 Oct - 13 Oct) |
Lecture |
11 Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History |
Week 12 (14 Oct - 20 Oct) |
Lecture |
12 Digital History's Private Face |
Week 13 (21 Oct - 27 Oct) |
Lecture |
13 Digital History's Public Face |
Revision week (28 Oct - 03 Nov) |
Lecture |
14 Course Conclusion |
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