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History is a means of understanding the relationship between the past and the present. It is a rich and stimulating discipline, with its interest in the range of human societies through time and across cultures. An historical perspective also offers important critical insights into contemporary society and debates. The study of history enriches our understanding of ourselves. History trains us in acquiring and analysing information, and in comprehension and communication, skills which are an excellent foundation for any career.
There are no prerequisites for first year History subjects.
The prerequisite for a second/third year History subject is usually the completion of two first-year subjects in History (25 points). Students who have done suitable alternative first-year subjects are advised to consult with the Department for permission to enrol. Exemptions may also be granted where second/third-year subjects are taken as part of an approved interdepartmental program with its own entry requirements.
The prerequisite for a third/fourth-year subject in History is usually three second/third-year subjects in History (37.5 points).
A threshold requirement for the acceptance of work for evaluation is satisfactory attendance at tutorials. This is a minimum of 5 0percentattendance.
A Major in History usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:
Two first-year subjects in History (25 points), and;
Seven second/third-year subjects in History totalling 87.5 points. The completion of 131-019 Varieties of History: History and Media is highly recommended.
Students wishing to qualify for fourth year Honours study in History must complete 131-084 Historical Theory and Researchas part of their Major.
The prerequisites for entry to fourth year Honours in History are:
Completion of all the requirements for the BA, and;
Completion of a Major in History including 131-084 Historical Theory and Research and;
An average grade of H2B or higher of the second/third-year subjects within the Major.
Entry to Honours must be approved by the History Honours coordinator and the Faculty of Arts Honours course adviser.
Students entering Honours at mid-year or by lateral entry must complete 131-084 Historical Theory and Research as part of their Honours program. Please consult the Honours coordinator for details.
Students undertaking pure Honours in History must complete:
131-087 History Honours Thesis (37.5 points), and;
Five Honours subjects in History (equivalent to 62.5 points) which must include:
Three 'advanced' subjects and two 'theory and method' subjects.
or
Four 'advanced' subjects and one 'theory and method' subject.
Students undertaking combined Honours in History and another area of study must complete:
131-087 History Honours Thesis (37.5 points), and;
Two Honours subjects in History (equivalent to 25 points) which must include:
One 'theory and method' subject, and;
One 'advanced' subject, and;
Three Honours subjects in the combined area of study (equivalent to 37.5 points).
or
Honours thesis in the combined area of study (37.5 points), and;
Two Honours subjects in the combined area of study (equivalent to 25 points), and;
Three Honours subjects in History (equivalent to 37.5 points), which must include:
One 'theory and method' subject, and;
Two 'advanced' subjects.
Students undertaking fourth year Honours part-time would normally undertake their coursework subjects in the first year and their thesis in the second year.
In addition to the research-based MA and PhD by thesis, the Department of History also offers coursework MAs in History, in Women's Studies, and in Gender and Development as well as Graduate and Postgraduate Diplomas in History, Women's Studies, and Gender and Development. These involve a shorter thesis and seminars. They are ideal for those who wish to pursue study on a broader basis and with the support offered by weekly seminars. Brochures are available from the Department.
History graduates use their disciplinary skills in a variety of activities. They teach at all levels; they work in archives, libraries, museums, and as professional consultants in the expanding field of public history. They are also to be found in a growing range of occupations that require information skills. Here their ability to conduct research, to locate and evaluate different forms of evidence, and to express their findings clearly and effectively is at a premium. Virtually all jobs stress the need to study, assess and analyse, to communicate, to write reports and to make presentations; the study of history provides the opportunity to acquire such skills. Thus our graduates find employment in the communications industry (journalism, publishing, public relations, advertising), in administration (public service and corporate agencies, especially planning and policy units) and, more generally, in finance and service industries.
In the modern work force, education does not end at graduation. It continues with specialist training and the development of skills throughout one's working life. The special value of history is that it lays a foundation for such further study that is broader and more durable than a more narrowly vocational first degree. As historians we are always learning, always enriching our comparative perspective on our own society.
Please contact:
History Department
Third Floor, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Victoria 3052
Tel: +61 3 9344 5963
Web: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au
131-001 The Age of Revolutions A: The American Revolution
131-002 The Age of Revolutions B: The French Revolution
131-003 People in the Great South Land: The Australian Experience
131-004 Australia Since 1914: Memories, Identities and Histories
131-005 Politics, Religion and Culture in Tudor England, 1485-1603
131-006 Religion, Revolution and Civil War: Britain 1603-1660
131-007 The World Since World War Two: From the Free World To the Liberated World, 1942-1973
131-008 The World Since World War Two: From the Cold War to Trade Wars
131-009 The Medieval World A
131-010 The Medieval World B
131-019 Varieties of History: History and Media
131-021 Australian Sporting Culture A: Playing
131-067 War and Australian Society 1788-1918
131-023 Government, Church and Universities in Reformation England, 1485-1560
131-027 War and Australian Society Since 1919
131-029 Jews in the Modern World: Out of the Ghetto, 1492-1900
131-031 The Crisis Zones of Europe: The Modern History of Central and Eastern Europe
131-033 Contesting Genders: From Greer to Queer
131-032 Contesting Genders: From Wollstonecraft to De Beauvoir
131-034 Gender, Culture and Society
131-036 Indonesian Nationalism: Ethnicity and Religious Change in the Twentieth Century
131-038 Gender and Development
131-039 Japan and the World 1850s-1990s
131-040 Making Melbourne Marvellous: The Central City Through 150 Years
131-042 Roman History: 500 Years of Oligarchy
131-043 Roman History: Three Centuries of Empire
131-046 Great Empires of Islamic Civilisation
131-047 From Great Exhibition to Great War: British Society 1850-1918
131-048 Hitler's Germany
131-050 The Russian Revolution, 1890-1924
131-051 Koori and Non-Koori Histories: Colonial and Post-Colonial Interchanges in Australia
131-053 Migration and Australian Society
131-056 King Arthur: History and Legend
131-057 Twentieth-Century Britain
131-058 The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
131-061 Sex and Love in the Medieval World
131-062 China from the Manchus To Mao
131-064 The Browning of Australia: Australian Environment History
131-022 Australian Sporting Culture B: Watching
131-068 Screening the Holocaust
131-069 God Through History: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
131-073 From Subject to Citizen: The Making of Australian Citizenship
131-076 Asian Histories: Comparative Perspectives
131-077 Cities of the New World: Ethnographies of Place
131-079 Slavery and Freedom in the USA: 1790-1920
131-080 American Modern: The United States 1890-1965
131-081 Republican France: Society and Culture 1870-1950
131-082 The Age of Stalin, 1924-1953
131-085 Witches and Witch Hunting in European Societies
131-145 Contemporary American Society and Culture: Whose Country? Whose Culture?
103-001 Computer Applications
107-009 The Great Archaeologists: A History of Classical and Near-Eastern Archaeology
110-075 Indonesian Civilisation Past and Present
131-018 Creating America: Immigration, Class, and Conflict in New England and New York
131-044 Medieval and Renaissance Nuremberg: Art and Civic Culture in an Age of Transition
131-070 The Chinese Overseas: Diasporan Histories
131-075 The Graeco-Roman City in Antiquity
131-084 Historical Theory and Research
131-087 History Honours Thesis
131-131 History 4A
131-138 Oral History Workshop
131-063 Representations of Gender: Histories and Identities
131-086 Saints, Scholars and the Community in Early Christian Ireland
131-089 The Reconstruction of Russian Historical Consciousness in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
131-090 Australian Sport: Makers and Readers
131-091 The Culture of the Avant Garde: Paris 1900-1980
131-093 Processes of Migration and Settlement
131-095 Historians and Autobiography
131-096 The Historian at Work: Archives, Palaeography, Theory and Writing History
131-098 Reading Course
131-130 Approaches to Social History
131-132 Gender, Globalisation and Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
131-135 Gender and Colonialism: Australia and the Pacific 1788 to 1930s
131-136 Memory and Memories
131-137 Fascist Europe
131-139 Applications in Public History
131-140 Telling the Australian Story: Facts, Fictions and Faiths
131-142 The Crusade in Contemporary Eyes
131-143 Reading African American History
131-144 Postcolonial Histories
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