Postgraduate - Course3077 - Master of Applied History

This degree offers a vocational program for historians and related professionals. Students choose to focus on one of three areas of strength in History at Monash: public history, oral history, and holocaust and genocide studies. Graduates may go on to work in the fields of commissioned history, heritage conservation and management, oral history, community history, museums, genocide studies and human rights, and related areas. The program has excellent links with professional historians working in these fields. The applied history program draws on teaching strengths across the faculty, and students have a number of opportunities to build professional networks through assessment tasks, including a public history placement.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes. For more information refer to http://opvclt.monash.edu.au/curriculum-by-design/aligning-course-outcomes-with-aqf-bologna.html.

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that graduates will be able to:

• demonstrate a sound knowledge of diverse aspects of the academic discipline
• articulate and apply an understanding of the world view of the field of study
• demonstrate a critical appreciation of the secondary literature in the field of study
• apply a critical familiarity with many of the key texts and cultural products pertaining to the field of study
• apply advanced reading and communication skills, both written and verbal
• demonstrate advanced analytical skills
• demonstrate a thorough understanding of research methodology and ethics, and an ability to undertake a small, independent research project in one of the disciplines represented in the program

This course consists of 24 points of specialisation units and 24 points of elective units at level four, plus 24 points at level five.

Level four

Specialisation units

Students must complete two units (24 points) from one of the streams below.

Holocaust and genocide studies

• APG4286 Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust*
• APG4287 War and peace: Models of conflict resolution*
• APG4290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning and identity
• APG4293 Genocidal thought
• APG4304 Colonial encounters: Ideas of race and 'otherness'
• APG4314 Seeking justice in South Africa and Rwanda*
• APG4320 Jewish history, Jewish memory
• APG4629 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945

* This unit requires overseas travel.

Oral history

• APG4297 Recording oral history: Theory and practice
• APG4310 Local and community history
• APG4305 History and memory: Interpreting life stories

Public history

• APG4295 History and the museum
• APG4297 Recording oral history: Theory and practice
• APG4299 History and heritage
• APG4310 Local and community history

Elective units

Students must complete two units (24 points) from the following list of electives:

• APG4286 Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust*
• APG4287 War and peace: Models of conflict resolution*
• APG4290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning and identity
• APG4293 Genocidal thought
• APG4295 History and the museum
• APG4296 Imagining Europe: representations and images of a continent
• APG4297 Recording oral history: Theory and practice
• APG4299 History and heritage
• APG4301 Reading and writing history
• APG4303 Issues in environmental history: Images of the natural world
• APG4304 Colonial encounters: Ideas of race and 'otherness'
• APG4305 History and memory: Interpreting life stories
• APG4310 Local and community history
• APG4313 Hidden transcripts: Cultural approaches to the past
• APG4314 Seeking justice in South Africa and Rwanda*
• APG4320 Jewish history, Jewish memory
• APG4618 Researching histories
• APG4629 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945
• other units offered in the faculty, with the approval of the course coordinator

Other units can be identified via the index of units by faculty at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/units/index-byfaculty-arts.html or by browsing units at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/units/search.

* This unit requires overseas travel.

Level five

Students must complete one of the following:

• APG5797 Applied history placement and APG5795 Applied history dissertation
• APG5787 Applied history research project (24 points)
• APG5788 Applied history research project Part 1 (12 points) and APG5789 Applied History research project Part 2 (12 points)

Students may apply to exit after successful completion of:

• 24 points with a Graduate Certificate in Arts
• 48 points with a Graduate Diploma in Applied History.

Master of Applied History