Program Requirements

The program consists of 48 units of coursework:

Compulsory Courses (12 Units)

HIST6110 - History and Theory 

HIST6506 - Researching and Writing History

*Students who have completed the above courses in another award are exempt from this requirement and will take alternative core course(s) in their place*

Core Courses (a minimum of 12 units from the following list):

HIST8001 - Crimes, Courts and Crucifixions: Maintaining Order in the Roman Empire

HIST8003 - Digital Histories and Biographies

HIST8008 - Writing Biography

HIST8010 - Biographical Practices

HIST8012 - Oral History, memory and life-writing

HIST8015 - Colonial Australia in an Imperial World

HIST8016 - Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters

HIST8017 - Australia and the World at War

HIST8018 - A Globalising World

HUMN8009 - Biography and Society

MUSC8001 - Museums and Society

Elective Courses (a maximum of 24 units from the following list):
HIST6022 - Indigenous Australian History 
HIST6078 - Australians at Work
HIST6107 - American Voices: Aspects of Social Thought in the United States, 1900-1990
HIST6111 - Healing Powers: Medicine and Society Since 1750
HIST6117 - Technology and Society, 1800-2000
HIST6119 - Urban Australia, 1870-1970
HIST6121 - Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000
HIST6122 - Popular Culture, Gender and Modernity 
HIST6126 - American Sixties 
HIST6128 - Convicts and Emigrants: Australia, 1770s to 1870s 
HIST6130 - History on Film 
HIST6133 - Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, c. 1450-1950 
HIST6136 - World At War, 1939-1945 
HIST6213 - Real Men: Manhood and Identity in the Western World 
HIST6214 - The Great War, 1914-1918 
HIST6216 - Religion and Society in the Roman Empire 
HIST6221 - The Birth of Modernity: Britain 1688-1848 
HIST6223 - The French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe
HIST6225 - Environmental History: Australia and the World 
HIST6226 - Nazi Germany
HIST6509 - Tudor-Stuart England c.1485-1714: Politics, Society, Culture 

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