Faculty Certificate in History

Course code: 2056 + Course abbreviation: FacCertHist + Total credit points required: 24 + 0.5 years full-time, 1 year part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course provides suitably qualified people with an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in history and offers those who wish to proceed into postgraduate diplomas with an introduction to recent debates and changes in the discipline of history. In particular, the program introduces questions concerning the nature and status of historical knowledge and the role of history, and provides a more general base in conceptual and theoretical knowledge into which people can successfully integrate their specific interests in various fields of history.

Course structure

Students complete 24 points consisting of one historiography unit and one elective chosen from the list below. 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

Electives

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

Articulation

Students successfully completing a faculty certificate with average grades of credit or above are normally eligible to apply for entry into the Postgraduate Diploma in History and may receive 50 per cent credit for that course.

Course coordinator

Dr Peter Howard

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