On completion of their course, students undertaking the history and politics major are expected to have developed:
The major provides students with a structured program of study of history and politics. The subjects are designed to build up, in a systematic way, significant bodies of knowledge on the history and politics of Europe, Australia, Asia and the major world powers. Students are provided with a systematic development of learning skills - including skills in reading, information retrieval, oral and written communications, and methodological approaches and research techniques.
The application of knowledge of political systems and structures is developed in public and social policy studies for students in the Bachelor of Arts and in other courses. The history-politics major provides a stimulating course which will give students a high level of academic competence in the study of continuity and change in human society and a deeper understanding of the nature of the past and the modern world. GSC1503, GSC1504 and GSC3504 are compulsory for the major sequence.
Students completing a history-politics major should complete fifty-two points, comprising twelve points at first level, sixteen points at second level, twenty-four points at third level. To complete a minor, students should complete two subjects at first level and two subjects at second level.
Subject to approval in 1999, students should be able to complete a major in history and politics as distinct areas. The existing history-politics major will also continue.