Undergraduate - Area of study History

First-year level

Students studying a sequence in history must complete two units (12 points) from the following:

• ATS1040 Religions and the modern world
• ATS1041 World religions
• ATS1247 Ancient cultures 1
• ATS1248 Ancient cultures 2
• ATS1316 Medieval Europe
• ATS1317 Renaissance Europe
• ATS1319 Understanding Asia: An introduction to Asian history and cultures
• ATS1320 Nations at War I: From Napoleon to Gallipoli
• ATS1321 Nations at War II: Revolutions in the twentieth century
• ATS1322 Conflict and coexistence: Jews, Christians, Muslims
• ATS1323 The Bible as history
• ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1
• ATS1326 Contemporary worlds 2
• ATS1327 Understanding Asia: Society, culture and politics in the 21st century

Suggested first-year sequences in history are:

• ATS1247 and ATS1248
• ATS1316 and ATS1317
• ATS1319 and ATS1327
• ATS1320 and ATS1321
• ATS1323 and ATS1322
• ATS1325 and ATS1326
• ATS1040 and ATS1041

Second/Third-year level

Students studying a minor or major in history must have completed the first-year sequence. In addition:

• a minor requires completion of a further two units (12 points) chosen from list A and list B below, with a minimum of one unit from List A
• a major requires completion of a further six units (36 points) chosen from list A, list B and List C below, including at least two units must be chosen from list A, and a minimum of four units from lists A and B. A minimum of three units also must be taken at third-year level.

List A

• ATS2930/ATS3930 Encounters and empire: Europe and the world
• ATS2932/ATS3932 Struggles for justice: The history of rights
• ATS2931/ATS3931 Making histories
• ATS2933/ATS3933 The meaning of things: Writing cultural history

List B

• ATS2571/ATS3571 History, film and TV in 20th century Australia
• ATS2572/ATS3572 Crisis and renewal in the late Renaissance: Machiavelli and the age of the prince
• ATS2573/ATS3573 Relics and legends: Deciphering popular Christianity
• ATS2575/ATS3575 Murderous cities: Killers, slums and social reform
• ATS2574/ATS3574 Fears and fantasies: Deviance and criminality in the modern world
• ATS2576/ATS3576 History wars: The uses of the past
• ATS2578/ATS3578 Soldiers of fortune: Mercenaries from antiquity to Afghanistan
• ATS2579/ATS3579 Witches and depravity in the medieval and early modern world
• ATS2583/ATS3583 History and film: Nazi Germany and the Jewish holocaust
• ATS2584/ATS3584 Australia's black history
• ATS2587/ATS3587 Twentieth century Australia: From Anzac to Apology
• ATS2588/ATS3588 Australia to 1901: Making a nation
• ATS2590/ATS3590 Twentieth-century Britain: Rule Britannia to cool Britannia
• ATS2593/ATS3593 History of sexuality 1800 - to the present
• ATS2595/ATS3595 The rise and fall of Nazi Germany
• ATS2596/ATS3596 The Vietnam War
• ATS2601/ATS3601 Cults and the end of time: A history of millenarian discourse
• ATS2602/ATS3602 Renaissance Italy
• ATS2603/ATS3603 The age of crusades: Cultures and societies
• ATS2604/ATS3604 Arthur: History and myth
• ATS2606/ATS3606 The island world of Southeast Asia
• ATS2607/ATS3607 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
• ATS2612/ATS3612 The Renaissance in Florence
• ATS2614/ATS3614 Slavery and freedom: From the American to the French revolution
• ATS2616/ATS3616 Twentieth-century America: Race, rights and power
• ATS2617/ATS3617 The American civil war
• ATS2623/ATS3623 Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
• ATS2626/ATS3626 Global disasters: Impact, inquiry and change
• ATS2631/ATS3631 The idea of travel: Global perspectives
• ATS2633/ATS3633 Global cities: Past, present, future
• ATS2908/ATS3908 Making the American century: US expansion from colonies to superpower
• ATS2909/ATS3909 Villains and Rogues: A history of ideas about gangsters
• ATS3285 Dante's medieval world: Politics, religion and the city
• ATS3288 Angels and demons: Rome, the papacy and the world
• ATS3799 Special reading unit

List C

Students can include a maximum of 12 points of the following units towards their major:

• ATS2057 Genocide
• ATS2286/ATS3286 After Auschwitz: Remembering the Holocaust
• ATS2342/ATS3342 Alexander the Great and his world
• ATS2343/ATS3343 Imperial Egypt and the Mediterranean world
• ATS2346/ATS3346 Imperial Rome: A study in power and perversion in the early empire
• ATS2348/ATS3348 The middle kingdom in Egypt: From collapse to recovery and foreign rule
• ATS2349/ATS3349 The golden age of Athens
• ATS2350/ATS3350 Kleopatra's Egypt
• ATS2351/ATS3351 The early dynastic period and old kingdom in Egypt, 3050-2150
• ATS2352/ATS3352 Egypt's golden age
• ATS2353/ATS3353 Social justice and Indigenous Australians
• ATS2354/ATS3354 Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
• ATS2357/ATS3357 Australian Aboriginal women
• ATS2385/ATS3385 Anzac legends: Australians at war
• ATS2386/AUS3300 Broken earth: Journeys through the Australian landscape
• ATS2387/ATS3387 Beyond Gallipoli: Australians in two world wars*
• ATS2521/ATS3521 Conflict and culture in Europe
• ATS2523/ATS3523 Modern Eastern and Central Europe: Culture and society
• ATS2524/ATS3524 Liberal foundations and socialism
• ATS2580/ATS3580 The Middle East in the modern world
• ATS2582/ATS3582 The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• ATS2585/ATS3585 The world of the Bible
• ATS2586/ATS3586 Islam: Principles, civilisations, influences
• ATS2591/ATS3591 The Arab-Israeli conflict through film and literature
• ATS2598/ATS3598 Jews in the modern world
• ATS2599/ATS3599 Modern Israel: History, politics and society
• ATS2600/ATS3600 The Holocaust in an age of genocide
• ATS2608/ATS3608 Myth and meaning in ancient worlds
• ATS2636/ATS3636 Sacred and profane: Religion, the secular and the state
• ATS2610/ATS3610 Ancient religions
• ATS2611/ATS3611 Imagining God: Mysticism, heresy and reason
• ATS2632/ATS3632 Post-conflict: Justice, memory, reconciliation
• ATS2712/ATS3712 The religious quest: Eastern faith and illumination
• ATS2907/ATS3907 Islamic leadership in the 20th century
• ATS2898/ATS3898 The Italian city through an historical and literary perspective
• ATS2057 Genocide
• ATS2124/ATS3124 Breadlines behind the iron Curtain: Everyday life in communist Eastern Europe
• ATS3284 Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust
• ATS3287 Israelis and Palestinians between war and peace
• ATS3314 Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda
• ATS3341 Interpreting the sources of Islam: The Qur'an and Hadith

* Taught in Prato, Italy.