Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Faculty Certificate in History

Course code: 2056 + Mid-year entry available + 1 semester full-time, 1 year part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Program director: Seamus O'Hanlon

This course provides suitably qualified people with an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in history and offers those who wish to proceed into postgraduate diplomas with an introduction to recent debates and changes in the discipline of history. In particular, the program introduces questions concerning the nature and status of historical knowledge and the role of history, and provides a more general base in conceptual and theoretical knowledge into which people can successfully integrate their specific interests in various fields of history.

Entry requirements

Candidates with a bachelors degree in a field other than arts and with relevant experience which establishes their capacity for advanced study in history are eligible for admission. The following principles will form the basis for decisions about admission for candidates without a bachelors degree:

• candidates must provide references from at least two suitably qualified people (one of whom should be their employer if relevant) who can attest to their capacity to undertake tertiary studies involving a high degree of independence in learning
• candidates will be expected to show evidence of substantial employment experience in a professional field related to history, including professional or public history, archival, library or museum work, heritage and cultural policy, and professional writing and research
• in these fields, substantial employment experience is defined as a minimum of six years professional experience or independent employment which includes both administrative or managerial duties or equivalent competencies and substantial research experience, preferably involving the production of monographs or research-based reports
• in other fields of professional employment, evidence of advanced competency in relevant skills, including independent research and analysis, the planning and implementation of a substantial research project and advanced written and oral communication skills.

Course structure

Students complete 24 points consisting of one historiography unit and one elective chosen from the list below. Not all units are available each year.

Historiography units

• 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

Electives

• 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

Articulation

Students successfully completing a faculty certificate with average grades of credit or above are normally eligible to apply for entry into the Postgraduate Diploma in History and may receive 50% credit for that course.

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