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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts
Master of Arts in History by coursework and research
Course code: 2846 + Course fees: domestic students -
fee-waived RTS places available + Mid-year entry available + 18 months
full-time, 3 years part-time
Course director: Barbara Caine
This
course 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 (note that not all are offered every
year):
- HYM5095 History and heritage
- HYM5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
- HYM5120 Reading and writing Australian history
- HYM5140 The Raj imagined
- HYM5180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
- HYM5200 History and memory
- HYM5270 Research methods in biography and life writing
- HYM5280 Reading and writing biography and life stories
- HYM5320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
- HYM5340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in
Scotland
- 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
- HYM5620 Family history and genealogy
- HYM5820 Local and community history
- HYM5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- HYM5950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
- HYM5900 History, biography and autobiography
- HYM5960 Gender and history
- 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
Candidates
undertaking a 66% 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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