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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts
Masters Qualifying in History with a research component
Course code: 1988 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year
full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
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. Note that 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: oral history, life stories and commemoration
- HYM4560 The past around us
- 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
- HYM4340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in
Scotland
- HYM4430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
- HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
- HYM4510 History and the museum
- HYM4620 Family history and genealogy
- HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
- HYM4820 Local and community history
- HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
- JWM4010 Reading 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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