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Master of Arts in History by coursework and research

Course code: 2846 + Course abbreviation: MA(Res&Cw) + Course fees: domestic students - fee-waived RTS places available + 1.5 years full-time, 3 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course is designed to provide students with a broader knowledge of specific fields of history and their associated methodological techniques, to introduce key theoretical concepts and questions regarding the nature of historical investigation and the examination of evidence from a variety of sources, and to provide a context of existing approaches and methods for students developing research theses.

Entry requirements

The completion of a BA honours degree in history (results of H2A or better) or the Masters Qualifying in History with a research component (results of H2A or better both for the program overall and the research component). Applicants who do not have prior research experience but have completed a postgraduate degree or diploma in history with grades of distinction and above in three-quarters of their units may be admitted to the 66% research degree (these applicants will need to enrol for a 12-point supervised research project as part of the required 24 points of coursework).

Course structure

The course comprises two 12-point units selected from those offered at level five, and a thesis of 20,000 to 25,000 words. The two units must be completed in the first year (if full-time) or the first two years (if part-time).

The following units are available (note that not all are offered every year):

  • HYM5095 History and heritage
  • HYM5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
  • HYM5120 Reading and writing Australian history
  • HYM5140 The Raj imagined
  • HYM5180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
  • HYM5200 History and memory
  • HYM5270 Research methods in biography and life writing
  • HYM5280 Reading and writing biography and life stories
  • HYM5320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
  • HYM5340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in Scotland
  • HYM5330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
  • HYM5380 Heritage, history and archaeology in Victoria
  • HYM5430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
  • HYM5500 Contours of racial thought
  • HYM5620 Family history and genealogy
  • HYM5820 Local and community history
  • HYM5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
  • HYM5950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
  • HYM5900 History, biography and autobiography
  • HYM5960 Gender and history
  • JWM5010 Reading and interpreting Jewish texts: from antiquity to modern times
  • 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
  • RLM5090 The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
  • RLM5110 Ecology, gender and the sacred
  • RLM5120 Social theory, belief and history

External candidature

Candidates undertaking a 66% research load will normally be required to enrol for all of the units in the coursework component on the Clayton campus and may then apply for a transfer to external candidature.

Minimum pass grade

The minimum pass grade for units in the Master of Arts in History by coursework and research is 60 C, ie a grade of credit or above is required in every unit and for the thesis.

Contact details

Course coordinator

Professor Barbara Caine

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