Undergraduate - Area of study History

Minor in history

Students completing a minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in history must complete four units (24 points), including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points), chosen from:

• ATS1316 Medieval Europe*
• ATS1317 Renaissance Europe*
• ATS1320 Nations at war 1: Revolution and empire
• ATS1321 Nations at war 2: The twentieth century

(b.) additional elective units from List A only (12 points)

Note: Students can take the second-year cornerstone units from the major as electives.

* This unit can be counted as a gateway unit towards history or religion and theologyreligion and theology (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/religion-and-theology/ug-arts-religion-and-theology.html), but not to both areas.

Major in history

Students completing a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in history must complete eight units (48 points), including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points), chosen from:

• ATS1316 Medieval Europe*
• ATS1317 Renaissance Europe*
• ATS1320 Nations at war 1: Revolution and empire
• ATS1321 Nations at war 2: The twentieth century

For the purposes of a minor or major in history, the following first-year level units may be counted as alternative gateway units:

• ATS1247 Ancient cultures 1
• ATS1248 Ancient cultures 2
• ATS1319 Understanding Asia: An introduction to Asian history and cultures
• ATS1322 Conflict and coexistence: Jews, Christians, Muslims
• ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1
• ATS1326 Contemporary worlds 2
• ATS1960 The Jews in the modern world

Note: ATS1319, ATS1325 and ATS1326 can be counted as first-year gateway units towards either history or international studiesinternational studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/international-studies/ug-arts-international-studies.html), but not to both. ATS1322 and ATS1960 can be counted as gateway units towards history, jewish studiesjewish studies (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/jewish-studies/) or religion and theologyreligion and theology (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/aos/religion-and-theology/ug-arts-religion-and-theology.html), but not to more than one of these areas.

(b.) at least one second-year cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS2930 Encounters and empire: Europe and the world
• ATS2931 Making histories

(c.) at least one third-year capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS3932 Struggles for justice: The history of rights
• ATS3933 The meaning of things: Writing cultural history

(d.) additional elective units from List A and List B (24 points). No more than two units (12 points) can be taken from List B.

Note: Students can take the remaining cornerstone and capstone units as electives.

* This unit can be counted as a gateway unit towards history or religion and theologyreligion and theology (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/aos/religion-and-theology/ug-arts-religion-and-theology.html), but not to both areas.

Extended major in history

Students completing an extended major in history (60 points), must complete an additional 12 points of third-year level elective units.

Elective units

In choosing elective units, students can pursue a particular stream of study. The history program offers units in the following streams:

• American history
• Asian history
• Australian history
• European history
• Global history
• Medieval/Renaissance history

To plan a pathway through the history major on the basis of one of these streams, refer to the History program websiteHistory program website (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/history-studies/undergraduate/).

List A

• ATS2057 Genocide
• ATS2521 Conflict and culture in Europe
• ATS2574 Fears and fantasies: Deviance and criminality in the modern world
• ATS2578 Soldiers of fortune: Mercenaries from antiquity to Afghanistan
• ATS2579 Witches and depravity in the medieval and early modern world
• ATS2584/ATS3584 Australia's black history
• ATS2587 Twentieth century Australia: From Anzac to Apology
• ATS2588 Australia to 1901: Making a nation
• ATS2590 Twentieth-century Britain: Rule Britannia to cool Britannia
• ATS2596 The Vietnam War
• ATS2600 The Holocaust
• ATS2602 Renaissance Italy
• ATS2603 The age of crusades: Cultures and societies
• ATS2606/ATS3606 The island world of Southeast Asia
• ATS2607/ATS3607 Nationalism and revolution in Southeast Asia
• ATS2612/ATS3612 The Renaissance in Florence*
• ATS2614 Slavery and freedom: From the American to the French revolution
• ATS2617 The American civil war
• ATS2633 Global cities: Past, present, future
• ATS2909 Villains and Rogues: A history of ideas about gangsters
• ATS3124 Breadlines behind the Iron Curtain: Everyday life in communist Eastern Europe
• ATS3284 Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust*
• ATS3285 Dante's medieval world: Politics, religion and the city*
• ATS3287 War and peace: Models of conflict resolution*
• ATS3288 Renaissance Rome: The papacy and the world
• ATS3573 The Renaissance Codes: Art, magic and belief
• ATS3582 The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• ATS3583 The Holocaust in film
• ATS3589 Tutor and Stuart England: Crisis, conquest and creativity, 1485-1660
• ATS3593 History of sexuality 1800 - to the present
• ATS3595 The rise and fall of Nazi Germany
• ATS3599 Modern Israel: History, politics and society
• ATS3616 Race and rights in twentieth century America
• ATS3623 Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
• ATS3626 Global disasters: Impact, inquiry and change
• ATS3631 The idea of travel: Global perspectives
• ATS3632 Post-conflict: Justice, memory, reconciliation
• ATS3908 American empire: The United States from colonies to super power

List B

• 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
• ATS2354/ATS3354 Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
• ATS2357/ATS3357 Australian Aboriginal women
• ATS2382 War and memory in the Asia Pacific: Legacies of World War II
• ATS2385 Anzac legends: Australians at war
• ATS2386/ATS3386 Paradise lost? Sustainability and Australia
• ATS2387/ATS3387 Beyond Gallipoli: Australians in the Great War*
• ATS2394/ATS3394 Australia and Asia
• ATS2395 Australia in a globalising world
• ATS2586 Islam: Principles, civilisations, influences
• ATS2610 Ancient religions
• ATS2611 Imagining God: Mysticism, heresy and reason
• ATS2907 Islamic leadership in the 20th century
• ATS2898/ATS3898 The Italian city through an historical and literary perspective
• ATS3314 Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda**
• ATS3341 Interpreting the sources of Islam: The Qur'an and Hadith
• ATS3346 Imperial Rome: A study in power and perversion in the early empire
• ATS3580 The Middle East in the modern world
• ATS3608 Myth and meaning in ancient worlds
• ATS3636 Sacred and profane: Religion, the secular and the state

* Taught in Prato, Italy. This unit will require payment of an additional fee that may cover items such as accommodation, entry fees, excursions, coaches, transfers, flights and university administration.

** Taught in South Africa. This unit will require payment of an additional fee that may cover items such as accommodation, entry fees, excursions, coaches, transfers, flights and university administration.