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Postgraduate handbook 2004
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Master of History (one-year program)
Course code: 3092 + Clayton + Mid-year entry available +
Course director: Seamus O'Hanlon
This course, offered full-time over one year or part-time over
two years, seeks to develop a high degree of conceptual and analytical ability
in the study of history and to acquaint students with debates in specific
fields of historical scholarship, especially those concerning the nature of
history and historical knowledge.
The honours degree of Bachelor of Arts in History or (with the
approval of the coordinator) in a related discipline with results of at least
H2B level, or the equivalent; Masters Qualifying in History with a research
component (with results of least H2B level); or a Postgraduate Diploma in
History with credit grade results or above. Candidates with a Postgraduate
Diploma of Arts (H2B or better) or a Masters Qualifying in Visual Arts,
Geography, English, Australian Studies or other approved units (with results at
least at H2B level) may be admitted at the discretion of the coordinator.
Students are required to complete four 12-point units (for a
total of 48 points) chosen from the list below; at least one of which must be a
historiography unit. Not all units are available each year.
- HYM5120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM5200 History and memory
- HYM5900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM5950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
- HYM5960 Gender and history
- HYM5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
- HYM5140 The Raj imagined
- HYM5180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
- HYM5270 Research methods in biography and life writing
- HYM5280 Reading and writing biography and life stories
- HYM5320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
- HYM5330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
- HYM5380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
- HYM5430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
- HYM5500 Contours of racial thought
- HYM5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- JWM5010 Reading and interpreting Jewish texts: from antiquity to modern
times
- JWM5020 Between homeland and holy land: Israel in Jewish thought
- RLM5060 Medieval women and their world: constructing identities 1100-1450
- RLM5070 Buddhism: society, politics and ethics
- RLM5090 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
- RLM5110 Ecology, gender and the sacred
- RLM5120 Social theory, belief and history
One 12-point unit may be
taken in another appropriate discipline, with the approval of the coordinator.
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