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Postgraduate Diploma in History

Course code: 0876 + Course abbreviation: PGradDipHist + 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 skills in historical analysis and writing and to acquaint students with key recent debates in specific fields of history, especially those concerning the nature of history. It will enable students to study techniques of historical examination of sources and to broaden knowledge of a number of fields of history. This diploma may be of particular value to teachers of history, but it is available to any qualified person interested in pursuing study in history at postgraduate level. The program will consist of a specially constructed course of study relevant to the previous experience and future requirements of individual candidates, each of whom will be consulted as to its design.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor of Arts pass degree, with results of at least credit level in the third part of a major sequence in history or equivalent, or the Faculty Certificate in History with average results of credit or above (applicants in this category are normally eligible to apply for 50% credit towards the Postgraduate Diploma). 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.

Course structure

Students are required to complete four 12-point units (a total of 48 points) chosen from the lists below; at least one must be a historiography unit. Not all units are available each year. Unless otherwise indicated, all units are taught at Clayton.

Historiography units

HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
HYM4200 History and memory: oral history, life stories and commemoration
HYM4560 The past around us (online)
HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
HYM4960 Gender and history

Other units

HYM4095 History and heritage (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
HYM4140 The Raj imagined
HYM4175 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives
HYM4180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
HYM4185 Colonial encounters: ideas of race and 'otherness' in the British world, 1650--1900
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 (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4620 Family history and genealogy (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
HYM4820 Local and community history (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
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
RLM4100 Religion in Australian society
RLM4110 Ecology, gender and the sacred

One of the 12-point units may be taken in another appropriate discipline, with the approval of the coordinator.

Contact details

Course coordinator

Dr Peter Howard

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