HIST20010: The First Centuries of Islam

A document exercise 1500 words, 30% (due Monday after end of the teaching period) and a 2500 word project, 70% (due 1 month after the end of the teaching period).

Hurdle requirement: students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day; after five working days, no late assessment will be marked. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Note: I did this subject as a breadth subject, I am a B-Sci student.

Overall, I did this subject because I didn't want to do 4 subjects during my first semester of the year. I would recommend people take this subject if they do 3 subjects in the second semester. The subject takes up 2 weeks of your winter holiday and it's a little depressing how little time you get for your holidays.

I also did this subject because I was interested in learning more about Islam, because I have Muslim friends. This subject did teach me a little about Islam, but not as much as I was expecting. One of the two assessments focused on architecture, so we were taught about many Islamic buildings in the lectures (although I didn't find this information particular relevant to the building I ended up doing).

Yes. With screen capture.

Richard Pennell, Abdullah Saeed (ugh sorry if I get this wrong)

H1

Yes. Past exams available, they were helpful in telling you what kind of questions would be given, but beyond that they weren't super helpful.

3 of 5

Personally I enjoyed my experiences with this subject but I don't know whether I'd recommend it to others.

No need to buy a textbook, lol. It's only for 2 weeks. They do tell you to read tutorial readings, which were quite long etc. I ended up going to Officeworks and getting them printed and bound into a book. I then wrote notes in that book.

Contact Hours: This subject is taught intensively between 13 – 24 July 2015 with a daily 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial.
Total Time Commitment:
170 hours

It's a WINTER INTENSIVE. WINTER. INTENSIVE.

Winter, 2014

Did this in the last 2 weeks of my winter holiday.