History - 2017

Major requirements (48 points)

No more than 12 points at level 1 may be credited to the majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) and at least 18 points must be at level 3.

Students complete:

1. Two level 1 gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points) chosen from:
   • ATS1316 Medieval Europe**
   • ATS1317 Renaissance Europe**
   • ATS1320 Nations at war: Revolution and empire
   • ATS1321 Nations at war: The twentieth century

   ** This unit can be counted as a gateway unit towards history or religious studies but not both.

   Note: Students who have completed a pair of the following level 1 units may count them as alternative gateway units but they cannot be counted as gateway units towards both history and another area of study:

   • ATS1247 Ancient cultures 1
   • ATS1248 Ancient cultures 2
   • ATS1319 Global Asia
   • ATS1322 Conflict and coexistence 1: Jews, Christians and Muslims from antiquity through the middle ages
   • ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1
   • ATS1326 Contemporary worlds 2
   • ATS1960 Conflict and coexistence 2: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the modern world
2. One level 2 cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points) chosen from:
   • ATS2106 A short history of the world: From the big bang to climate change
   • ATS2109 The commodities that changed the world: An introduction to globalisation and global history
   • ATS2110 Slavery: A history
   • ATS2932 Struggles for justice: The history of rebellion, resistance and revolt
3. One level 3 capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points) chosen from:
   • ATS3080 Remembering the past
   • ATS3092 Reading and researching history*
   • ATS3930 Encounters and empire: Europe and the world
   • ATS3933 The meaning of things: Writing cultural history*

   *Students intending to do honours in history are required to complete either ATS3933 (The meaning of things: Writing cultural history) or ATS3092 (Reading and researching history)

4. Four units (24 points) from the remaining cornerstone and capstone units or Elective List A or List B, with at least two units at level 3.

   Note: No more than 12 points can be selected from List B.

Minor requirements (24 points)

No more than 12 points at level 1 may be credited towards the minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html).

Students complete:

1. Two level 1 gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2017handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points) chosen from:
   • ATS1316 Medieval Europe**
   • ATS1317 Renaissance Europe**
   • ATS1320 Nations at war: Revolution and empire
   • ATS1321 Nations at war: The twentieth century

   Note: Students who have completed a pair of the following level 1 units may count them as alternative gateway units but they cannot be counted as gateway units towards both History and another area of study:

   • ATS1247 Ancient cultures 1
   • ATS1248 Ancient cultures 2
   • ATS1319 Global Asia
   • ATS1322 Conflict and coexistence 1: Jews, Christians and Muslims from antiquity through the middle ages
   • ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1
   • ATS1326 Contemporary worlds 2
   • ATS1960 Conflict and coexistence 2: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the modern world

   **This unit can be counted as a gateway unit towards history or religious studies but not both.

2. Two level 2 or 3 units (12 points) as listed within the major except List B. It is a highly recommended that students complete a level 2 unit before enrolling in a level 3 unit.

Extended major requirements (72 points)

No more than 24 points at level 1 may be credited to the extended major and at least 24 points must be at level 3.

Students complete:

1. The requirements for the major in History (48 points)
2. One additional capstone unit (6 points) including at least one of ATS3933 or ATS3092 if not already completed
3. Three units (18 points) from the remaining cornerstone or capstone units from the major or Elective list A or B, ensuring that you will have at least four level 3 units to credit to the extended major.

Elective list

Students can choose to pursue a particular stream of history study. To plan a stream pathway through the history major refer to the History program website:

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

  Units are 6 points unless otherwise stated.

List A

• ATS2057 Genocide
• ATS2107 Colonial America: From puritans to revolutionaries
• ATS2108 The modern family: A global history
• ATS2244 A history of American business
• ATS2380 Global migrations: Making the modern world
• ATS2385 ANZAC legends: Australians at war
• ATS2387/ATS3387 Beyond Gallipoli: Australians in the Great War (12 points)
• ATS2579 Witches and depravity in the medieval and early modern world
• ATS2584/ATS3584 Australia's black history
• ATS2588 Australian stories: People, place and histories
• ATS2590 Twentieth-century Britain: Rule Britannia to cool Britannia
• ATS2595 The rise and fall of Nazi Germany
• ATS2596 The Vietnam War
• ATS2600 The Holocaust
• ATS2602 Renaissance Italy
• ATS2603 The age of crusades: Cultures and societies
• ATS2612/ATS3612 The Renaissance in Florence
• ATS2617 The American civil war
• ATS2620 The age of the Samurai
• ATS2633 Global cities: Past, present and future
• ATS2909 Gangsters: A global story
• ATS2957/ATS3957 Medieval Italy: Sites of encounter (12 points)
• ATS3078 From the fall of Rome to the millennium: The world of the early middle ages
• ATS3079 The fall and rise of modern China: From opium war to opening up
• ATS3124 Everyday life in the Soviet Union
• ATS3284 Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust
• ATS3288 Renaissance Rome: The papacy and the world
• ATS3311 Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
• ATS3573 The Renaissance Codes: Art, magic and belief
• ATS3574 Fears and fantasies: Deviance and criminality in the modern world
• ATS3582 Arab-Israeli conflict
• ATS3583 History and film: Nazi Germany and the Jewish Holocaust
• ATS3589 Medieval and early modern Britain
• ATS3593 History of sexuality 1800 - to the present
• ATS3616 Making America modern: Race, power and belonging in the twentieth-century
• ATS3623 Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
• ATS3626 Global disasters: Catastrophe and social change
• ATS3631 The idea of travel: Global perspectives
• ATS3908 American empire: The United States from colonies to superpower
• ATS3931 Making digital history

List B

• AHT2130 Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context
• ATS2271 Beowulf: An interdisciplinary approach
• ATS2349 The golden age of Athens
• ATS2351 The archaeology of death in ancient Egypt: The early dynastic period to middle kingdom
• ATS2352 Egypt's golden age
• ATS2354/ATS3354 Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state
• ATS2382 War and memory in the Asia Pacific: Legacies of World War II
• ATS2386/ATS3386 Paradise lost? Sustainability and Australia
• ATS2394/ATS3394 Australia and Asia
• ATS2395 Australia in a globalising world
• ATS2586 Islam: Principles, civilisations, influences
• ATS2610 Ancient religions
• ATS2898/ATS3898 The Italian city: Historical and literary perspectives
• ATS2907 Islamic responses to the post-colonial age
• ATS3208 In the footsteps of refugees
• ATS3314 Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda
• ATS3346 Imperial Rome: A study in power and perversion in the early empire
• ATS3350 From Alexander to Kleopatra: The Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome
• ATS3580 The modern Middle East
• ATS3608 Myth and meaning in ancient worlds
• ATS3611 Imagining God: The mystic quest in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
• ATS3636 Sacred and profane: Religion, the secular and the state

Requirements for progressing to honours

24 points of relevant level 3 units, which should include either ATS3933 (The meaning of things: Writing cultural history) or ATS3092 (Reading and researching history).

Intending honours students

Students intending to enter honours in this area of study must have completed a major in the discipline, with a minimum of 24 points of study at level 3 to be eligible.