Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Graduate Diploma in Public History

Course code: 3076 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton, Caulfield), multimode (online and face-to-face)
Course coordinator: Seamus O'Hanlon

Course description

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.

Entry requirements

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 the names of two professional referees.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points at level 4. Not all electives are available each year.

Compulsory level 4 units

Students must choose two in consultation with the course coordinator:

• HYM4095 History and heritage (online and face-to-face)
• HYM4510 History and the museum (online and face-to-face)
• HYM4560 The past around us (online)
• HYM4620 Family history and genealogy (online and face-to-face)
• HYM4820 Local and community history (online and face-to-face)

Level 4 electives

• 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
• HYM4340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in Scotland
• HYM4430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
• HYM4500 Contours of racial thought
• HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
• HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
• HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
• HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
• HYM4960 Gender and history
• 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

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