Master of History
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):
HIST8002 - Crimes, Courts and Crucifixions: Maintaining Order in the Roman Empire
HIST8003 - Digital Histories and Biographies
HIST8011* - 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
HIST8021* - Readings in History
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
HIST6228 - Enlightenment Worlds
HIST6229 - Sexuality in Australian History
HIST6509 - Tudor-Stuart England c.1485-1714: Politics, Society, Culture
* Courses available in online mode. International Students must seek approval from the Program Convenor prior to enrolling in these courses.
The information published on the Study at ANU 2013 website applies to the 2013 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2012 website.
