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18 September 2017 18 November 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Area of Study

Students who commenced study in 2012 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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Managing facultyFaculty of Arts
Offered bySchool of Applied Media and Social Sciences
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Campus(es)Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland

Notes

  • Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Description

NOTE: This area of study has had one or more changes made to it since publication on 1 October 2011. For details of change/s, please consult the change register at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2012handbooks/2012-change-register.html.

Public history offers vocational programs for historians and related professionals. They deal with working in public history, heritage conservation and management, museums and community or local history. 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 programs have excellent links with the heritage industry and professional historians working in these fields. The public history program draws on teaching strengths across the faculty, and students will have a number of opportunities to build professional networks through assessment tasks, including a period of supervises work experience. Specific research strengths in this area include historic conservation, the heritage movement's indigenous and colonial histories, especially of landscape and environment; and oral history, life stories and memory.

Units

For a list of units studied or course outlines, refer to the relevant courses.

Relevant courses

  • 2695 Master of Arts*
  • 3077 Master of Applied History
  • 0020 Doctor of Philosophy*

* By research.