This course provides students with an opportunity to undertake a program of in-depth reading in an area of history under the guidance of a staff member.  The nature of the program will be negotiated between the student and a proposed supervisor, but might include Australian History; Indigenous History; Environmental History; Imperial and Colonial History; Medieval and Early Modern History; the history of Gender and Sexuality; American History; European History; or Transnational History. Students must gain the formal agreement of a staff member to supervise them before enrolling in this course.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

1. Formulate a coherent program of reading in consultation with a professional historian.

2. Identify a series of historical questions and problems in a field and devise a plan for dealing with them.

3. Analyse the major contributions to the historiography of a coherent field of study.

4. Evaluate the significant debates, problems and controversies in a particular field of historical study.

5. Locate and interpret a body of primary source materials relevant to the field of historical study.

1. Learning Plan (Reading List/ Questions and Problems/ Assessment Plan) (800 words, excluding reading lists): 10% [assesses Learning Objectives 1 and 2]

2. Essay 1: 2000 words: 40% [assesses Learning Objectives 3, 4 and 5]

3. Essay 2: 3000 words: 50% [assesses Learning Objectives 3, 4 and 5]

120 hours of reading, assignment work and consultations, with a minimum of 6 hours of direct communication between supervisor and student.

None.

Department consent.

None.

None.  Readings are to be negotiated between student and supervisor.

Students will need internet access.