Graduate Diploma in Public History

Course code: 3076 + Course abbreviation: GradDipPubHist + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield; Clayton)

Multimode (Clayton)

Course description

This course offers a vocational program for historians and related professionals. Graduates may go on to work in the fields of commissioned history, heritage conservation and management, oral history, community history, museums and related areas. The program has excellent links with the heritage industry and professional historians working in these fields.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points at level 4. Note that not all units are available each year.

Compulsory level 4 units

Students must choose two in consultation with the course coordinator:

HYM4095 History and heritage (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4510 History and the museum (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4560 The past around us (online)
HYM4620 Family history and genealogy (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
HYM4820 Local and community history (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)

Level 4 electives (taught at Clayton)

HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
HYM4120 Reading and writing Australian history
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
HYM4200 History and memory
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
HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
HYM4900 History, biography and autobiography
HYM4950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
HYM4960 Gender and history
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

Other units offered in the faculty, with the approval of the course coordinator

Exit points

There are no alternative exit points from this course.

Articulation

For further study options please contact the School of Historical Studies or visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/prospective/course/postgraduate

Course coordinator

Dr Seamus O’Hanlon

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