History

Description

Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising of a thesis and two coursework units.

The coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the History honours coordinator.

Units

The units available differ between campuses. Please refer to the individual campus entries below.

Clayton

Offered by the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies

Thesis

Students complete one of the following options:

• HSY4990 Dissertation OR
• HSY4990 (A) Dissertation Part 1 AND
• HSY4990 (B) Dissertation Part 2

Coursework Units

Students complete two of the following units:

• EUR4020 Religion and secularism in the quest for European integration*
• HSY4030 Special subject in History
• HSY4095 History and heritage
• HSY4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence*
• HSY4140 The Raj imagined: Stories and films of British India in their historical context*
• HSY4165 Final journey: Life and death of European Jews 1900-1945
• HSY4175 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives
• HSY4180 Images of the natural world: Issues in environmental history
• HSY4185 Colonial encounters: Ideas of race and 'otherness' in the British World, 1650-1900*
• HSY4195 Israelis and Palestinians between war and peace
• HSY4210 History and memory: Oral history, life stories and commemoration #
• HSY4260 Medieval dialogues: Reason, mysticism and society
• HSY4270 Research methods in biography and life writing #
• HSY4280 Reading and writing biography and life stories*
• HSY4290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning, identity*
• HSY4320 Citizens: Histories of Australian citizenship*
• HSY4330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy*
• HSY4340 The highland clearances: Displacement, migration and memory in Scotland*
• HSY4370 Fantasies of the flesh: The body in history*
• HSY4430 Perfecting America: Rhetoric, reform and reaction*
• HSY4440 Genocidal thought
• HSY4510 History and the museum*
• HSY4590 Imagining Europe: Representations and images of a continent
• HSY4620 Family history and genealogy*
• HSY4660 Recording oral history: Theory and practice
• HSY4690 Pageant and power: The Renaissance Papacy*
• HSY4730 Reading and writing Australian history #
• HSY4740 The French Revolution: Issues and debates*
• HSY4760 Gender and history*
• HSY4805 Teaching history*
• HSY4810 History, biography and autobiography*
• HSY4820 Local and community history*
• HSY4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
• HSY4950 Hidden transcripts: Cultural approaches to the past
• INT4010 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945
• JWC4020 Zionism: The argument
• JWC4040 Jewish literature of subversion
• RLT4040 Islamic though in the modern world
• RLT4070 Buddhism: society, politics and ethics*
• RLT4100 Religion in Australian society*
• RLT4110 Sustainability and the sacred*
• RLT4140 Confronting death through ceremony and symbol*
• RLT4400 Medieval women and their world: Constructing identities 1100-1450*

*These units are not offered in 2010
#These units are considered ‘methodological’

Gippsland and Off-campus

Offered by the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences

Thesis

Students complete the following two units:

• HUM4000(A) Dissertation Part 1
• HUM4000(B) Dissertation Part 2

Coursework Units

Students complete the following two units:

• HPL4510 Research writing in history and politics
• HUM4002 Selected topics in theory and practice

Relevant Courses

• 0003 Honours degree of Bachelor of Arts
• 0204 Honours degree of Bachelor of Letters
• 0082 The honours degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws