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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Arts
Master of Public History
(1.5-year program)
Course code: 3077 + Mid-year entry available +
Clayton/Caulfield and online + Course coordinator: Seamus O'Hanlon
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 public history program draws on teaching strengths across the faculty, and
students have a number of opportunities to build professional networks through
assessment tasks.
Face-to-face classes are taught on the Clayton and Caulfield campuses. A
range of online units developed in conjunction with the University of
Technology, Sydney, will also be available.
Students who have completed 24 points of the Master of Public
History may apply to exit with a Graduate Certificate in Public History.
Students who have completed 48 points of the Master of Public History may apply
to exit with a Graduate Diploma in Public History.
A bachelors degree with at least a credit average in the final
year or demonstrable professional experience at senior level in a relevant
area. Such applicants will need to supply a CV, a 1000-word statement and names
of two professional referees.
Students complete 72 points consisting of 48 points at level 4
and 24 points at level 5 chosen from the list below. Not all electives are
available each year.
Students must choose two units in consultation with the course
coordinator:
- HYM4560 The past around us (online)
- HYM4510 History and the museum (online and face-to-face)
- HYM4095 History and heritage (online and face-to-face)
- Local and community history (offered by UTS) (subject to
availability)
- Communicating the past (offered by UTS) (subject to availability)
- HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
- HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM4140 The Raj imagined
- HYM4180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
- HYM4200 History and memory
- 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
- HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
- HYM4960 Gender and history
- HYM4380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
- 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
- Other units offered in the faculty, with the approval of the course
coordinator
- HYM5170 Public history placement
- HYM5100 Public history research project
To graduate with the Master of Public History, students must gain
a credit in core units and a credit average overall.
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