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School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies - Honours Units

Not all units are offered each year, contact Honours Enquiries or the Honours Coordinator for course advice

Units by Subject

Centre for Archaeology & Ancient History

Dissertation (Thesis)

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4678 Archaeology and ancient history dissertation part 1
  • ATS4679 Archaeology and ancient history dissertation part 2
  • ATS4798 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.
  • ATS4799 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4256 Predynastic and early dynastic Egypt
  • ATS4345 Research methods in classical antiquity
  • ATS4257 Reading the ancient past

 

Further Information on Honours in Archaeology available here

Department of History

Dissertation (Thesis)

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4801 History dissertation part 1
  • ATS4802 History dissertation part 2
  • ATS4798 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.
  • ATS4799 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4278 Religion and secularism in the quest for European integration*
  • ATS4285 Dante's medieval wordl: Politics, religion and the city (Prato, summer, Nov/Dec 2011)
  • ATS4286 Final journey: Life and death of European Jews 1900-1945*
  • ATS4287 Israelis and Palestinians between war and peace
  • ATS4288 Angels and demons: Rome, the papacy and the world
  • ATS4289 Medieval dialogues: Reason, mysticism and society
  • ATS4290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning, identity
  • ATS4291 Fantasies of the flesh: The body in history*
  • ATS4293 Genocidal thought*
  • ATS4295 History and the museum*
  • ATS4296 Imagining Europe: Representations and images of a continent
  • ATS4297 Recording oral history: Theory and practice
  • ATS4299 History and heritage
  • ATS4300 Reading renaissance letters
  • ATS4301 Reading and writing Australian history **
  • ATS4302 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives*
  • ATS4303 Issues in environmental history: Images of the natural world
  • ATS4304 Colonial encounters: Ideas of race and 'otherness'
  • ATS4305 History and memory: Interpreting and life stories**
  • ATS4306 Reading and writing biography and life stories*
  • ATS4307 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy*
  • ATS4308 The highland clearances: Displacement, migration and memory in Scotland*
  • ATS4309 Family history and genealogy*
  • ATS4310 Local and community history*
  • ATS4311 Text and Community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Prato, summer, Jan 2011)
  • ATS4312 History, biography and autobiography*
  • ATS4311 Text and community in Renaissance Italy (Prato)
  • ATS4313 Hidden transcripts: Cultural approaches to the past*
  • ATS4319 Zionism: The argument
  • ATS4620 Teaching history*
  • ATS4321 Jewish literature of subversion
  • ATS4339 Sustainability and the sacred*
  • ATS4340 Confronting death through ceremony and symbol*
  • ATS4342 Islamic thought in the modern world
  • ATS4343 Religion in Australian society*
  • ATS4795 Special subject 1: First semester
  • ATS4797 Research methods in biography and life writing**
  • ATS4810 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945
  • ATS4849 Medieval women and their world: Literacy, authority and spirituality
* These units are not offered in 2011.

** These units are considered 'methodological'.

 

Further Information on Honours in History here

International Studies Program

Dissertation (thesis)

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4808 International studies dissertation part 1
  • ATS4809 International studies dissertation part 2
  • ATS4798 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to  commencement of Candidature.
  • ATS4799 General Seminar Part 2 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)

 Please contact the International Studies Student Advisor for a list of suggested electives.

Further Information on the International Studies Honours Program here

Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC)

Dissertation (thesis)

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4817 Dissertation (Jewish civilisation) Part 1
  • ATS4818 Dissertation (Jewish civilisation) Part 2
  • ATS4798 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.
  • ATS4799 General Seminar Part 2 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4286 Final journey: Life and death of European Jews 1900-1945*
  • ATS4287 Israelis and Palestinians between war and peace (Israel, summer Nov/Dec 2011)
  • ATS4289 Medieval dialogues: Reason, mysticism and society
  • ATS4290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning, identity
  • ATS4293 Genocidal thought*
  • ATS4302 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives*
  • ATS4314 Seeking Justice in South Africa and Rwanda (South Africa, winter, July 2011)
  • ATS4318 Jewish literature of destruction
  • ATS4319 Zionism: The argument
  • ATS4321 Jewish literature of subversion*
*Not offered in 2011

Further Information on the ACJC Honours program here

Philosophy Department

Research Project

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4866 Philosophy honours research project part 1
  • ATS4867 Philosophy honours research project part 2

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)

 

Further Information on Honours in Philosophy here

Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology

Dissertation (Thesis)

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4847 Minor thesis in religion and theology part 1
  • ATS4848 Minor thesis in religion and theology part 2
  • ATS4798 General Seminar Part 1 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.
  • ATS4799 General Seminar Part 2 - information provided to students closer to commencement of Candidature.

 

Coursework

Unit Code (Link to Handbook)
  • ATS4289 Medieval dialogues: Reason, mysticism and society
  • ATS4339 Sustainability and the sacred
  • ATS4340 Confronting death through ceremony and symbol
  • ATS4341 Interpreting the Sources of Islam: the Qur'an and Hadith
  • ATS4342 Islamic thought in the modern world
  • ATS4343 Religion in Australian society
  • ATS4849 Medieval women and their world: Literacy, authority and spirituality

Further Information on Honours in Religion & Theology here