Master of Renaissance Studies

Course code: 3792 + Course abbreviation: MRenSt + Total credit points required: 72 + 1.5 years full-time, 3 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. Students will have the opportunity to take at least one unit at Monash University's Prato Centre (visit www.ita.monash.edu/ for details), and will then complete a research project that provides the opportunity to explore a particular aspect of the Renaissance in some depth, while learning skills of research method.

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 complete 72 points as follows:

Core units

HYM4075 Studying the Renaissance
HYM5035 Renaissance research project (12 points), or
HYM5045 Renaissance research project (24 points)

Students would normally undertake the research project in their final semester of study.

Elective units

Students will choose three of the following 12-point electives at level 4, and those who take the research project at 12 points will also take one of the following units at level 5. Note that not all of these units will be offered every year*.

HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
HYM4840/5840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
HYM4330/5330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
HYM4115/5115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
MUM4040/5040 Medieval and Renaissance music
ENM4700/5700 Drama of the Age of Shakespeare

One unit will be offered in Prato each year (in intensive mode), and the research project, subject to supervision being available, may be partly completed in Prato.

* 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

Students may be offered an exit award of a Graduate Certificate of Arts after successful completion of 24 points, or a Postgraduate Diploma in Renaissance Studies after successful completion of 48 points.

Course coordinator

Dr Carolyn James

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