Proposition for the world’s greatest social experiment: take hundreds of people who are incorrigibly bad, guarded by others with just as little choice, rip them away from everything they ever knew, subject them to the traumas of imprisonment, malnutrition, and floggings, propel them through vast oceans of known enemies and unknown dangers, to the furthest extremes of the planet, to an ancient land where the seasons are back to front, and the trees drop bark not leaves, thrust them upon an ancient civilisation, with only this challenge – "Let’s see what you can make of this."

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face / Online

COURSE OUTLINE

• Expedition planning
• Introduction to the ships, crews, and convicts
• Portsmouth, Tenerife
• Rio de Janiero, Capetown
• Botany Bay, Sydney Cove
• Fictional representations: books and films

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Know more about the ships, individual capacities, histories, voyages, and fates
2. Discover the personalities and incidents on each ship
3. Understand the colonisation objectives, rationale and outcomes