Fifth-year subjects

Students taking subjects at fifth-year level are expected to develop a greater degree of sophistication in the analysis of different kinds of historical sources and a stronger grasp of key methodological issues concerning the nature of those sources, to read more broadly in the secondary literature, and to explore in greater depth theoretical and conceptual issues concerning the nature of history as a form of knowledge.

• HYM5010: Issues in public history
• HYM5020: Methods of public history
• HYM5090: The Australian ethnic experience
• HYM5120: Reading and writing Australian history
• HYM5210: `Being American': the construction of national identity
• HYM5950: Hidden transcripts: cultural approaches to the past
• HYM5960: Gender and History
• HYM5980: The American right
• RLM5070: Buddhist ethics: society and politics
• RLM5090: The authority of the text: the hermeneutical question
• RLM5110: Ecology, gender and the sacred
• RLM5810: The history of popular Christianity from the beginning to the

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