Unit Outline
HAA108
Migrant Families
Term 1, 2024
Kate Bagnall
School of Humanities
College of Arts, Law and Education
CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B
Unit Coordinator
Kate Bagnall
Email: Kate.Bagnall@utas.edu.au
 
What is the Unit About?
Unit Description
Australia is a migrant nation, with a rich and diverse mix of peoples, languages and cultures. In Migrant Families, we trace the journeys of ancestors who migrated to and from Australia and New Zealand, and place their lives in the context of global migration over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We explore the ways governments have shaped populations through migration and citizenship law and policy, and consider how these might have affected your ancestors’ lives. Migrant Families develops your archival research skills in the digital age. We explore where and how to find migration records (in Australia, New Zealand and overseas) and how to use them effectively to tell your family’s migration story. The unit builds on historical research and writing skills developed in the Foundation-level Family History units.
Intended Learning Outcomes
As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.
On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1.
Use appropriate technologies to locate, identify and access historical records relating to migration and citizenship
2.
Read, interpret and evaluate historical information found in migration and citizenship records
3.
Research and write a biographical non-fiction account of an individual or family’s experience of migration
4.
Situate individual lives within the wider history of migration, particularly in relation to Australia and New Zealand
Alterations as a result of student feedback
The unit was offered for the first time in Term 2, 2021. Since then, the unit has been updated with changes to lectures and weekly discussion questions as a result of student feedback, and examples of Assessment Task 3: Essay have been added in 2024.
 
 
Teaching arrangements
ATTENDANCE MODE
TEACHING TYPE
LEARNING ACTIVITY
CONTACT HOURS
FREQUENCY
Online
Independent Learning
Weekly online learning materials (e.g. short video lectures, discussions, readings, activities)
3
Weekly
Online Class
Optional consultation hour
1
Study Period 2 times
Attendance / engagement expectations
If your unit is offered On campus, it is expected that you will attend all on-campus and onsite learning activities. This is to support your own learning and the development of a learning community within the unit. If you are unable to attend regularly, please discuss the situation with your course coordinator and/or our UConnect support team.

If your unit is offered Online, it is expected you will engage in all those activities as indicated in the Unit Outline, including any self-directed learning.

If you miss a learning activity for a legitimate reason (e.g., illness, carer responsibilities) teaching staff will attempt to provide alternative activities (e.g., make up readings) where it is possible.
 
Questions you have about the unit (particularly about assessment tasks) should be posted to the Ask the Teaching Team discussion board in the unit MyLO site.
Unless your question is of a personal nature, please use the Ask the Teaching Team discussion board rather than directly emailing your Unit Coordinator or other members of the Teaching Team.
The Teaching Team will be online between 9:00am and 5:00pm, Monday to Friday (excluding Tasmanian public holidays). We will endeavour to answer your queries as soon as possible but please be patient. We generally cannot answer queries outside these hours.
We also ask that requests for extensions be made through MyLO. See ‘Assessment Resources’ in the unit MyLO site for how to do this.
If you have questions about your enrolment or study plan, please contact UConnect. 
 
 
How will I be Assessed?
 
For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.
Assessment schedule
ASSESSMENT TASK #
ASSESSMENT TASK NAME
DATE DUE
WEIGHT
LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:
Online quizzes
Week 2
40 %
LO1, LO2, LO4
Assessment Task 2:
Document analysis
Week 4
20 %
LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:
Essay
Week 8
40 %
LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
 
Assessment details
    
Assessment Task 1: Online quizzes
Task Description:
You must complete four online content knowledge quizzes, each comprising 10 randomised questions. The quizzes are based on content presented in Modules 1, 2, 4 and 5.

Each quiz opens on Monday at 9:00am, at the start of the relevant Module, and closes one week later.

You can attempt each quiz three times and your highest result is recorded for your grade. You may be required to answer different questions in subsequent attempt.

Quiz due dates:
Module 1 Quiz: Monday, 12 February 2024
Module 2 Quiz: Monday, 19 February 2024
Module 4 Quiz: Monday, 11 March 2024
Module 5 Quiz: Monday, 18 March 2024
Task Length:
4 quizzes of 10 questions each (total 40 questions)
Due Date:
Week 2 (12/Feb/2024)
Weight:
40 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
1
Correctly answer quiz questions relating to content knowledge from Modules 1, 2, 4 and 5
LO1, LO2, LO4
 
Assessment Task 2: Document analysis
Task Description:
In this assessment task, you will analyse a text-based primary source relating to migration or citizenship.

Examples of appropriate documents include: a ship’s passenger list, a migrant selection document, a naturalisation application, a citizenship certificate, a diary entry, a newspaper article.

The document you choose should (ideally) be one that you intend to use as a source for Assessment Task 3. It is okay for your document to be only one or two pages long.

In the document analysis you will need to:
– answer a series of short questions based on your close reading of the document
– write a brief reflection on how you could use the document in telling the story of a migrant ancestor
– construct a correct reference for the document for use in a footnote and a bibliography.

Task Length:
500 words or less
Due Date:
Week 4 (04/Mar/2024)
Weight:
20 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
 
1
Identify an appropriate text-based primary source relating to migration or citizenship
LO1
2
Accurately describe and interpret a primary source through close reading
LO2, LO3
3
Reflect on the relevance of the primary source in writing migration history
LO3, LO4
4
Demonstrate accuracy and consistency in your use of the specified referencing style
LO1, LO3
 
Assessment Task 3: Essay
Task Description:
In your final assessment task, you will research and write an essay about the migration journey of an individual ancestor or family group. You must not write about someone who came to Australia as a convict.

The assessment task involves locating and analysing primary and secondary source material, and using the historical information you have found to write a contextualised, non-fiction account of your ancestor/s’ experience of migration.

Your essay may include up to three illustrations – such as a portrait of your subject/s and a map showing their journey – but this is not required.

You must provide references that indicate the source of your information. Your references should be accurate and consistently follow the style set out in the Family History Referencing Guide.

Task Length:
1000 words (+/- 10%), not including footnotes and bibliography
Due Date:
Week 8 (01/Apr/2024)
Weight:
40 %
 
CRITERION #
CRITERION
MEASURES INTENDED
LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
1
Undertake historical research to identify migration records, other primary sources and scholarly secondary sources
LO1
2
Produce a non-fiction account based on relevant historical information you have found in primary and secondary sources
LO2, LO3, LO4
3
Communicate clearly and coherently by structuring your work and following the conventions of written English
LO3
4
Demonstrate accuracy and consistency in your use of the specified referencing and essay presentation styles
LO1, LO3
 
 
 
How your final result is determined
To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.
 
Submission of assignments
Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.
 
Requests for extensions
If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.
 
A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.
 
The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.
Late penalties
Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.
 
Review of results and appeals
You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.
 
 
 
Required Resources
Required reading materials
All learning materials for this unit, including required readings, are provided in our MyLO site. You do not need to purchase a text book.
 
Recommended reading materials
If you would like to read broadly on the topic of Australian and New Zealand migration history, we can recommend the following books:
  • James Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century, Penguin, 2007
  • James Belich, Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000, University of Hawai’i Press, 2002
  • James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2007
  • Eric Richards, Destination Australia: Migration to Australia since 1901, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008
 
Other required resources
You will need access to a reliable internet connection and a computer (desktop or laptop). If you use a tablet or other mobile device (e.g. iPad, smart phone), you may encounter some difficulties using MyLO. For your internet browser, we recommend that you use Google Chrome.