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Graduate Certificate in Arts (History Education)

Course code: 3080 + Course abbreviation: GradCert(HistEd) + Total credit points required: 48 + 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

Off-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course, taught in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, brings fresh approaches to the study of history together with innovative classroom practice to meet the needs of the teaching profession and advance the historical understanding of course participants. This nationally delivered course will be innovative, explore the possibilities of the web and encourage the development of a critical approach to the new technologies. See the website at arts.monash.edu.au/history/postgraduate/graddip/ for further information.

Entry requirements

Applicants require a bachelors degree. Those without an undergraduate degree but with a teaching qualification and demonstrable professional experience in line with current practice may be admitted.

Course structure

Students complete 24 points consisting of two units chosen from the following list:

HYM4640 The world since 1900
HYM4560 The past around us
EDF4248 Historical understanding in schools: from research into practice (offered by the Faculty of Education)
131215 Rights and justice in Australian history (offered by the Department of History, University of Melbourne)
131214 Asia, the Pacific and the West (offered by the Department of History, University of Melbourne)

Contact details

Course coordinator

Dr Marc Brodie

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