U3A Clarence

Course Details

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Course Code:	222M26
Description:	Getting Forensic with Tasmania's Past
Frequency:	WKLY
Type:	None
Location:	Room Three
Start Date:	25/07/2022 Mon
Finish Date:	22/08/2022
Start Time:	10:50
Finish Time:	11:50
Number of weeks:	5
Maximum enrolments:	25
Number Enrolled:	24  Wait listed: 3
Comments:	This five-week course uses big data to re-examine key features of Tasmania's colonial past. Each of the first four lectures will focus on a specific question, while the last will take a glimpse of the future. The first lecture attempts to estimate the size of Tasmania's population at the point of first contact with Europeans. The second interrogates the truthfulness of the responses convicts provided to their colonial superiors on arrival in Hobart Town. The third examines the scale of profits derived from convict labour. The fourth explores ways in which local conditions influenced the stature and growth of past Tasmanians. The fifth and final lecture takes a glimpse into the future, revealing current plans to build a Tasmanian historical atlas that has the capacity to map health outcomes across generations.
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