Graduate Certificate in Public History*

• General information
• Entry requirements
• Course structure
• Advanced standing

SUBJECT TO APPROVAL.

General information

Course code: To be advised + Course fees: Local students -- HECS; international students -- $A13,500 + Coordinator: To be advised
This course offers a vocational program for historians and related professionals. Graduates may go on to work in the fields of commissioned history, heritage conservation and management, oral history, community history, museums and related areas. The program has excellent links with the heritage industry and professional historians working in these fields.
The classes will be taught on the Clayton campus. The duration of the course is one semester full-time.

Entry requirements

Applicants require a bachelors degree. Those without an undergraduate degree but with a teaching qualification and demonstrable professional experience in line with current practice may be admitted.

Course structure

Sudents will be required to complete two of the following 12-point public history units:

• HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
• HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
• HYM4110 Australian Aboriginal histories
• HYM4200 History and memory
• HYM4320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
• HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
• HYM4870 Theories and histories of society

It is also possible that students may wish to undertake the semester three unit:

• HYM4380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria

Advanced standing

Applicants may be given credit for appropriate successfully completed consortium-auspiced professional development programs.

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