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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Arts
Masters Qualifying in History with a research component
Course code: 1988 + Clayton + Mid-year entry available +
Program director: Seamus O'Hanlon
This course, offered full-time over one year or part-time over
two years, seeks to develop those skills in historical analysis, research
methods and writing which will help prepare students for a successful
transition to graduate research. Coursework units will seek to acquaint
students with debates concerning the nature and status of historical knowledge
and the role of history and with recent historiographical and conceptual
debates in fields of history relevant to their research interests, while a
research methods unit develops skills in the locating and using of different
kinds of sources. The course is also designed to develop skills in planning and
implementing a research program, and in writing and oral communication. In the
second semester (or second year if part-time), students will apply these skills
and insights in a research project supervised by a member of academic staff.
This program may be of particular value to teachers of history, professional
historians, librarians, archivists and museum professionals who wish to proceed
on to postgraduate research with a stronger grounding in recent developments in
history and in relevant research and writing skills, as well as to other
qualified people interested in pursuing study in history at postgraduate level.
The pass degree of Bachelor of Arts, with results of at least
credit level in the third part of a major sequence in history, or the
equivalent. In addition, special admission will be considered for candidates
holding a bachelors degree in another discipline or with a different major in
the following cases:
- candidates with substantial experience in the teaching of history in
secondary schools;
- candidates with substantial experience in the fields of professional or
public history;
- candidates with substantial relevant experience in the fields of archival,
library and museum practice.
Students complete 48 points including two core units, one
historiography unit and one elective chosen from the list below. Not all units
are available each year.
- HYM4001 Research project in history (18 points)
and
one of the following:
- HYM4002 Researching the past: historical sources, methods and
interpretation (6 points)
- HYM4065 The uses of the past (6 points)
- HYM4085 Reading history (6 points)
- HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM4200 History and memory
- HYM4560 The past around us (online)
- HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
- HYM4960 Gender and history
- HYM4095 History and heritage
- HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
- 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
- HYM4330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
- HYM4380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
- HYM4430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
- HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
- HYM4510 History and the museum (on campus and online)
- HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- JWM4010
Reading and interpreting Jewish texts: from antiquity to modern
times
- JWM4020 Between homeland and holy land: Israel in Jewish thought
- 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
- RLM4110 Ecology, gender and the sacred
- RLM4120 Social theory, belief and history
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