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Faculty Certificate in History
Course code: 2056 + Clayton campus + Mid-year entry available
+ Program director: Seamus O'Hanlon
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 are normally eligible to apply for entry into
the Postgraduate Diploma in History and may receive 50 per cent credit for that
course.
Students complete 24 points consisting of one historiography unit
and one elective chosen from the list below:
- HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM4200 History and memory
- HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM4960 Gender and history
- HYM4095 History and heritage
- 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
- RLM4060 Medieval women and their world: constructing identities 1100-1450
- RLM4070 Buddhism: society, politics and ethics
- RLM4090 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
- RLM4120 Social theory, belief and history
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