Program
code: 1988 + Program fees: Local students -- HECS; international students
-- $A13,500 + Program director: Dr Jane Drakard
This course, offered full-time over one year or part-time over two years, seeks
to develop those skills in historical analysis, research methods and writing
which will help prepare students for a successful transition to graduate
research. Coursework units will seek to acquaint students with debates
concerning the nature and status of historical knowledge and the role of
history and with recent historiographical and conceptual debates in fields of
history relevant to their research interests, while a research methods unit
develops skills in the locating and using of different kinds of sources. The
course is also designed to develop skills in planning and implementing a
research program, and in writing and oral communication. In the second semester
(or second year if part-time), students will apply these skills and insights in
a research project supervised by a member of academic staff. This program may
be of particular value to teachers of history, professional historians,
librarians, archivists and museum professionals who wish to proceed on to
postgraduate research with a stronger grounding in recent developments in
history and in relevant research and writing skills, as well as to other
qualified people interested in pursuing study in history at postgraduate level.
The pass degree of Bachelor of Arts, with results of at least credit level in the third part of a major sequence in history, or the equivalent. Students who have previously completed level-four units in history with grades of credit or above may apply for a maximum of 50 per cent credit at the time of their application. All requests for credit are subject to the approval of the course coordinator and the faculty. In addition, special admission will be considered for candidates holding a bachelors degree in another discipline or with a different major in the following cases:
The program requires completion of 48 points of coursework.
Students are also required to take two units chosen from the lists below, one of which must be a historiography unit.
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