Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Master of History (one-year program)

Course code: 3092 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Course director: Seamus O'Hanlon

Course description

This course 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.

Entry requirements

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.

Course structure

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.

Historiography units

• HYM5120 Reading and writing Australian history
• HYM5200 History and memory: oral history, life stories and commemoration
• HYM5900 History, biography and autobiography
• HYM5950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
• HYM5960 Gender and history

Other units

• HYM5070 Research project in history
• HYM5095 History and heritage
• 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
• HYM5340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in Scotland
• 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
• JWM5010 Reading 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.

Minimum pass grade

To graduate with the Master of History, students must gain a credit (60 C) or above in all units.

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