Postgraduate Diploma in Renaissance Studies

Course code: 3791 + Course abbreviation: PGradDipRenSt + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

Students will consider what the Renaissance was and examine its different aspects, with an emphasis on Italy but with attention to the wider dissemination of Renaissance culture. The approach is interdisciplinary and students will learn about the historical background to the Renaissance and about the art, literature and architecture of the period.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points, including one 12-point core unit and three 12-point elective units.

Core unit

HYM4075 Studying the Renaissance

Elective units

HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
HYM4330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
MUM4040 Medieval and Renaissance music
ENH4700 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
Or one other approved 12-point unit*

One unit will be offered in Prato each year (in intensive mode).

* Further elective offerings from within the faculty are planned to be introduced in future years, including 'Visions and revisions of Renaissance lives' (history), 'The other Tuscany' (visual culture), 'Renaissance literature' (English) and 'From script to print: books and society in the West, 1300–1600'.

Exit points

There are no alternative exit points from this course.

Articulation

Students enrolled in the Postgraduate Diploma in Renaissance Studies may transfer to the masters program provided they have obtained credits in the five core units and an overall credit average.

Course coordinator

Dr Carolyn James

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