Course code: 2846 + Course fees: local students - RTS HECS-exempt places available + Mid-year entry available + Course director: Barbara Caine
This course, offered full-time over one-and-a-half years or part-time over three years, is designed to provide students with a broader knowledge of specific fields of history and their associated methodological techniques, to introduce key theoretical concepts and questions regarding the nature of historical investigation and the examination of evidence from a variety of sources, and to provide a context of existing approaches and methods for students developing research theses.
The completion of a BA honours degree in history (results of H2A or better) or the Masters Qualifying in History with a research component (results of H2A or better both for the program overall and the research component).
The course comprises two 12-point units selected from those offered at level five, and a thesis of 20,000 to 25,000 words. The two units must be completed in the first year (if full-time) or the first two years (if part-time).
The following units are available (not all are offered every year):
Candidates undertaking a 66 per cent research load will normally be required to enrol for all of the units in the coursework component on the Clayton campus and may then apply for a transfer to external candidature.
The minimum pass grade for units in the Master of Arts in History by coursework and research is 60 C, ie a grade of credit or above is required in every unit and for the thesis.
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