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Master of History (one-year program)

Course code: 3092 + Course abbreviation: MHist + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

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; or a 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 (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. Unless otherwise indicated, all units are taught at Clayton.

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 (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
HYM5140 The Raj imagined
HYM5175 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives
HYM5180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
HYM5185 Colonial encounters: ideas of race and 'otherness' in the British World, 1650--1900
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 (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM5820 Local and community history (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
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
RLM5100 Religion in Australian society
RLM5110 Ecology, gender and the sacred

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.

Contact details

Course coordinator

Dr Peter Howard

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