Masters Qualifying in Archaeology and Ancient History with a research component

• General information
• Entry requirements
• Program structure

General information

Program code: 1988 + Program fees: Local students -- HECS; international students -- $A13,500 pa + Program director: Dr Colin A Hope
This program, which is offered full-time over one year or part-time over two years, seeks to develop skills in investigation, analysis, research methods and writing in archaeology and ancient history and help prepare students for a successful transition to graduate study in these disciplines. Coursework units will introduce key methods, themes and approaches in archaeology and ancient history, focusing in particular on Egypt and the Near East, which constitute the strengths of the Monash Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History. The program is also designed to develop skills in planning and implementing a research program, and in writing and oral communication. Students will apply these skills and insights in a 9000-word research project supervised by a member of academic staff. This program may be of particular value to students from other institutions who wish to proceed on to postgraduate research with a stronger grounding in recent developments in archaeology, in the particular specialisations of the Monash Centre, and in relevant research and writing skills. Mid-year entry is available.

Entry requirements

A pass degree of Bachelor of Arts, with results of at least credit level in the third part of a major sequence in archaeology or ancient history or, with the approval of the program director, a related discipline. Students who have previously completed level-four units in archaeology and ancient history, with grades of credit or above, may apply for a maximum of 50 per cent credit at the time of their application, provided that those units have not been used to qualify for another degree. All requests for credit are subject to the approval of the program director and the faculty. Credit will not be granted for the research component of the program.

Program structure

The program requires completion of 48 points, composed of:

• ARM4001 Research project in archaeology and ancient history (12 points)

Two 12-point core units:

• ARM4740 Reading the ancient past: research methods
• ARM4060 Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

And one other 12-point units selected from the list below:

• HYM4110 Australian Aboriginal histories (not offered in 2002)
• HYM4180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
• HYM4200 History and memory
• HYM4380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
• HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
• HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past (not offered in 2002)
• HYM4960 Gender and history
• RLM4090 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
• RLM4110 Ecology, gender and the sacred
• RLM4120 Social theory, belief and history (not offered in 2002)
• RLM4810 A history of popular Christianity (not offered in 2002)

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