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Faculty Certificate in History
Course
code: 2056 + Course fees: Local students -- A$3300 + Program director: Dr
Jane Drakard
This program, offered full-time over one semester or part-time over one year,
seeks to provide suitably qualified people with an opportunity to gain
knowledge and skills in history and to provide those who wish to proceed into
postgraduate diplomas with an introduction to recent debates and changes in the
discipline of history. In particular, the program will seek to introduce
questions concerning the nature and status of historical knowledge and the role
of history, and provide a more general base in conceptual and theoretical
knowledge into which people can successfully integrate their specific interests
in various fields of history.
Candidates
with a bachelors degree in a field other than arts and with relevant experience
which establishes their capacity for advanced study in history are eligible for
admission. The following principles will form the basis for decisions about
admission for candidates without a bachelors degree:
- candidates must provide references from at least two suitably qualified
people (one of whom should be their employer if relevant) who can attest to
their capacity to undertake tertiary studies involving a high degree of
independence in learning
- candidates will be expected to show evidence of substantial employment
experience in a professional field related to history, including professional
or public history, archival, library or museum work, heritage and cultural
policy, and professional writing and research
- in these fields, substantial employment experience is defined as a
minimum of six years professional experience or independent employment which
includes both administrative or managerial duties or equivalent competencies
and substantial research experience, preferably involving the production of
monographs or research-based reports
- in other fields of professional employment, evidence of advanced
competency in relevant skills, including independent research and analysis, the
planning and implementation of a substantial research project and advanced
written and oral communication skills.
Students
successfully completing a faculty certificate with average grades of credit or
above can progress to a Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (History) and receive 50
per cent credit for that course.
The
program requires completion of two 12-point units (a total of 24 points) from
those listed below. At least one must be a historiography unit.
- HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM4200 History and memory
- HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM4960 Gender and history
- HYM4140 The Raj imagined
- HYM4180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
- HYM4270 Research methods in biography and life writing
- HYM4280 Reading and writing biography and life stories
- HYM4320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
- HYM4380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
- HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
- HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- ARM4740 Reading the ancient past
- RLM4070 Buddhism: society and politics
- RLM4090 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
- RLM4110 Ecology, gender and the sacred
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