Faculty of Arts

History

A first-year History subject/s (25 points) is the normal prerequisite for all subjects offered at second year. However, several exceptions to this rule can be approved; 25 points of first-year in Classical Studies, Archaeology, Economic History, Politics, History and Philosophy of Science, and Anthropology are acceptable. Students are advised to contact the department for other exemptions.

A threshold requirement for the acceptance of work for evaluation is satisfactory attendance at tutorials. This is a minimum of 50% attendance.

In order to obtain a depth of study, a candidate may elect to undertake a major in a specified area of study such as History. In order to complete a major in History, a candidate is required to complete a minimum of five 16.7 point subjects at second or third-year level in History, totalling 83.3 points. Students may take a maximum of 10 x 16.7 point subjects in History.

Candidates who elect not to take a major will not be permitted to proceed to fourth-year honours.

Students must include the subject 131-302 Historical Theory and Research as one subject in a History major in order to qualify for Honours. Admission to the History Honours School in fourth-year requires the completion of all the requirements for the pass degree, normally the achievement of at least an H2B average or above in History subjects (based on the 5 x 16.7 points subjects that comprise the major, which must include 131-302 Historical Theory and Research, and satisfactory completion of all other requirements for the pass degree.

• Pure Honours
• Applied History Honours
• Combined Honours
• Part-time Students

The program is made up of four elements, representing a total of six component units:

• Thesis (33.3 points)

• Advanced Seminars (three single semester units) (16.7 points each)

• Theory and Method seminar (first semester unit) (16.7 points)

Students may elect to take a fourth-year program in Applied History. The elements of the program will be:

• Thesis (33.3 points)

• Advanced Seminars (three single semester units) (16.7 points each) (Chosen from the subjects listed below)*:

  • 131-401 History 4A

  • 131-414 Australian Sport: Makers and Readers

  • 131-427 Processes of Migration and Settlement

  • 131-438 Writing History for Publication

  • 131-439 The History of Teaching and the Teaching of History

  • 131-456 Memory and Memories

  • 131-462 Archives Workshop

• Theory and Method Seminar (first semester unit) (16.7 points):

  131-464 Applications in Public History

* Note: not all subjects will be available each year.

It is recommended that students wishing to proceed to Applied History Honours take at second or third-year one of the following subjects*:

• 131-203/303 The Oral Tradition in Australia

• 131-214/314 or 131-215/315 Making Melbourne Marvellous A or B

• 131-284/384 Explorations in Slumland

• 131-290/390 Exhibiting Histories and Cultures

* Note: not all subjects will be available each year.

Combined Honours students doing the thesis in a department other than History must take 33.3 points of coursework in History, that is, two single-semester advanced seminars in History.

Combined Honours students doing the thesis in History (33.3 points) must take one Theory and Method seminar (16.7 points), and one Advanced seminar (16.7 points).

Students undertaking Fourth-year Honours part-time would normally undertake the coursework subjects in the first year and the thesis in the second year.

History Department

University of Melbourne

Telephone: (03) 9344 5963

Subject Descriptions

First Year

131-103 The Age of Revolutions A
131-104 The Age of Revolutions B
131-109 Australian History A: the Colonial Experiment
131-111 Australian History B: Towards 2001
131-112 Politics, Religion and Culture in Tudor England, 1485-1603
131-113 Religion, Revolution and Civil War: Britain 1603-1660
131-114 The World Since World War Two: From the Free World To the Liberated World, 1942-1973
131-115 The World Since World War Two: From the Cold War to Trade Wars
131-116 Colonisers and Colonised: South Africa, Canada and Australia in an Imperial Age
131-117 Constructing National Identities: South Africa, Canada and Australia in A Postcolonial Age
131-118 The Medieval World A
131-119 The Medieval World B
131-120 Introduction To Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
131-123 The Making of Modern Europe (2): Reason and the State
131-124 Europe in the Age of Total War 1900-1925
131-125 Great Civilisations A
131-126 Great Civilisations B
131-127 Europe in the Age of Total War 1926-1950
131-128 Europeans and Conquest A: Discovering Europe and the Americas, 1450-1620
131-129 Europeans and Conquest B: Civilising and Colonising the World, 1620-1770
Second and Third Year
131-201 Varieties of History: History and Media
131-203 The Oral Tradition in Australia
131-204 Australian Sporting Culture
131-205 War and Australian Society 1788-1918
131-206 Politics, Religion and Culture in Reformation England, 1485-1560
131-207 The Body: History, Sex and Gender
131-208 Saracens, Heathens, Cannibals and Savages: Colonising discourses in the self-fashioning of Christendom/Europe/the West
131-209 The Australian Way of Life
131-210 Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Victoria
131-211 War and Australian Society Since 1919
131-212 The Birth of Industrial Society: Class and Conflict in Britain, 1780-1850
131-213 Jews in the Modern World: Out of the Ghetto, 1492-1900
131-214 Making Melbourne Marvellous (A) - Glittering Prizes: the Central City Through 150 Years
131-215 Making Melbourne Marvellous (B) - A Zone in Transition: the Inner Suburbs
131-219 Changing Concepts of 'Woman's Place': Europe, the United States and Australia, 1790-1950
131-220 Gender and Society
131-221 Pirates and their Enemies
131-222 Indonesian Nationalism: Ethnicity and Religious Change in the 20th Century
131-223 Military and State in 20th Century Indonesia
131-227 Gender and the Critique of Development
131-229 Japan and the World 1850s-1990s
131-230 Cyprus: Colonisers, Crusaders, Invaders
131-231 Jews in the Modern World: Out of the Ashes, 1900 - the Present
131-232 Renaissance Florence
131-233 Roman History: 500 Years of Oligarchy
131-234 Roman History: Three Centuries of Empire
131-237 Middle Eastern Women
131-238 Great Empires of Islamic Civilisation
131-239 The Pacific Rim
131-240 Crusades: Holy War, Holy Conquest?
131-241 A Jewel in the Crown? Issues in the History of Colonial Victoria
131-242 From Great Exhibition To Great War: British Society 1850-1918
131-243 Hitler's Germany
131-244 Class, Gender and Revolution: France 1815-1919
131-245 The Crises of Modern France: Society and Culture 1919-1995
131-247 Women and Men in Medieval Monasticism
131-248 Christians and Jews in Medieval Europe
131-249 Post-Revolutionary Soviet History: From the Revolution To Gorbachev
131-250 Pre-Revolutionary Russian History
131-253 Koori and Non-Koori Histories: Colonial and Post Colonial Interchanges in Australia
131-254 The Holocaust and Genocide
131-256 People in North America, 1780-1890
131-257 People in North America, 1890-1990
131-259 The Migrant Experience
131-260 Migration and Australian Society
131-261 The Working Class in History and Literature
131-264 Popular Heresy and Protest in Late Medieval Europe
131-265 King Arthur - History and Legend
131-266 Twentieth Century Britain
131-267 German History 1800-1918
131-268 Pagans, Christians, Goddesses and Kings in Celtic Ireland
131-269 Ritual, Gender and Community in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1700
131-270 A Long Perspective On the Vietnam War
131-272 The Mediterranean World in Modern Times
131-274 Sex and Love in the Medieval World
131-275 China From the Manchus To Mao
131-276 Representations of Gender
131-278 Myths of Australia
131-279 The Browning of Australia: Australian Environment History
131-281 Film and History: Representing Tragedy As Entertainment
131-282 Islam, Modernity and the Middle East Since 1798
131-284 Explorations in Slumland
131-285 Jewish Humour: From the Bible To Broadway
131-286 Screening the Holocaust
131-287 Histories of God: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
131-288 Inventing Asian Traditions
131-289 The Chinese Overseas: Diasporan Histories
131-290 Exhibiting Histories and Cultures
131-291 South Africa Under Apartheid, 1948-1994
131-293 Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
131-294 From Subject to Citizen: The Making of Australian Citizenship
131-295 Greeks in Antiquity: Migrations, Cultures and Identities
131-296 The Making of Modern Italy
131-297 The Graeco-Roman City in Antiquity
131-298 Subjects, Soldiers, Citizens and Consumers: A Social History of Twentieth Century Japan
131-302 Historical Theory and Research
103-230 Microcomputer Applications for Arts Students
104-269 The Great Archaeologists: A History of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
150-231 Indonesian Civilisation; Past and Present
Fourth Year Honours
131-401 History 4A
131-405 History Honours Thesis
131-410 Asia in Australian Eyes
131-411 Glasnost and the Reconstruction of Soviet History
131-414 Australian Sport: Makers and Readers
131-416 American Modern: Mass Society and Its Anxieties
131-417 The Culture of the Avant-Garde: Paris 1919-1980
131-419 The Spanish Civil War
131-421 'The Condition of England' Question in the 1830s & 1840s
131-423 Images, Rituals and Spaces: Visual Propaganda in 15th Century Rome
131-424 Scholars, Religion and Politics
131-425 Crusades and Pilgrimage A
131-426 Crusade and Pilgrimage B
131-427 Processes of Migration and Settlement
131-429 Patterns of Colonisation
131-430 Historians and Autobiography
131-431 Gender and History: Issues in Theory and Historiography
131-432 The Historian At Work: Archives, Palaeography, Theory and Writing History
131-433 The Emergence of the Moderne: Paris 1870-1919
131-434 Reading Course
131-438 Writing History for Publication
131-439 The History of Teaching and the Teaching of History
131-440 Religion and Society in Modern England
131-441 Religion, Society and Politics in Australia
131-443 Approaches To Social History
131-445 The European Witch Hunt, 1400-1700
131-447 Gender, Globalisation and Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
131-448 The Rabbinic Imagination
131-449 Philosophies of Jewish History
131-450 History, Culture and Language
131-455 Gender and the Colonial Experience: Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia
131-456 Memory and Memories
131-457 Chivalry and Courtly Love, Part A
131-458 Chivalry and Courtly Love, Part B
131-460 Fascist Europe
131-461 The Many Vietnams
131-462 Archives Workshop
131-464 Applications in Public History
131-465 The 'Subaltern Studies' Reading Group
100-402 Nation/Community/Citizen

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