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Master of History

Course code: 3092 + Course abbreviation: MHist + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course seeks to develop a high degree of conceptual and analytical ability in the study of history and to acquaint students with debates in specific fields of historical scholarship, especially those concerning the nature of history and historical knowledge.

Minimum pass grade

To graduate with the Masters, students must gain a credit (60 C) or above in core units and a minimum credit average overall.

Course structure

Students are required to complete four 12-point units (a total of 48 points) chosen from the list below; at least one of which must be a historiography unit. Not all units are available each year. Unless otherwise indicated, all units are taught at Clayton.

Historiography units

  • HYM5120 Reading and writing Australian history
  • HYM5200 History and memory: oral history, life stories and commemoration
  • HYM5900 History, biography and autobiography
  • HYM5950 Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
  • HYM5960 Gender and history

Other units

  • HYM5070 Research project in history
  • HYM5095 History and heritage (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
  • HYM5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
  • HYM5140 The Raj imagined
  • HYM5175 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives
  • HYM5180 Images of the natural world: issues in environmental history
  • HYM5185 Colonial encounters: ideas of race and 'otherness' in the British World, 1650–1900
  • HYM5270 Research methods in biography and life writing
  • HYM5280 Reading and writing biography and life stories
  • HYM5320 Citizens: histories of Australian citizenship
  • HYM5330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
  • HYM5340 The highland clearances: displacement, migration and memory in Scotland
  • HYM5430 Perfecting America: rhetoric, reform and reaction
  • HYM5500 Contours of racial thought
  • HYM5620 Family history and genealogy (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
  • HYM5820 Local and community history (online and face-to-face at Caulfield)
  • HYM5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
  • 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
  • RLM5100 Religion in Australian society
  • RLM5110 Ecology, gender and the sacred

One 12-point unit may be taken in another appropriate discipline, with the approval of the coordinator.

Exit points

There are no alternative exit points from this course.

Course coordinator

Dr Peter Howard

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