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Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2024
History
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Catherine Kovesi
Email: c.kovesi@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
The History curriculum offers students the opportunity to understand the worlds of the past, to reflect on the making of the present, and to develop the capacities to locate information, analyse evidence, think critically, and communicate effectively. The discipline offers both great range and detailed attention to particular places, times, and themes. Courses extend from the medieval world and the great empires to our most immediate past; all offerings reflect the latest developments in historical research and vocational practice.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Arts in this area of specialisation should be able to:
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of several periods or cultures of the past
- Locate, identify, analyse and contextualise materials that provide insight into the past
- Display a critical understanding of a variety of conceptual approaches, both national and international, to interpreting the past
- Understand the development of the discipline of History, its past and present
- Understand how historians relate and respond to their social, cultural, and political environments; and Demonstrate the ability to research on a defined topic according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline
- Engage with, and respond to, divergent historical interpretations using critical thinking skills, including through student-centred group work
- Demonstrate a high level of clarity and fluency in communication and collaboration, including oral and written presentation of evidence-based narratives and effective work in small groups
- Reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in the study of history, and on how these might be applied to scholarship, employment and citizenship.
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Structure
50 credit points
Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time
Program Requirements -
- one core subject (12.5 points)
- elective subjects (37.5 points)
Total 50 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Core Subjects
12.5 points
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST40037 | The Long History of Globalisation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST90023 | The Writing of Australian History | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST40030 | History for Historians | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
37.5 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST10012 | The World Since World War II | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST10015 | Dictators & Democrats: The Modern World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST10016 | Europe: From Black Death to New Worlds | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20013 | The Holocaust & Genocide | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST10017 | Gender, Rights, and Power in History | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20034 | Modern Southeast Asia | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20052 | Venice and Cultures of Consumption | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST20060 | Total War: World War II | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20065 | Rebels and Revolutionaries | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20068 | The French Revolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20072 | Pirates and their Enemies | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST30076 | Stalinism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20080 | Witch-Hunting in European Societies | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST20084 | Red Empire: The Soviet Union and After | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20086 | China in Global History since 1945 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20087 | City Visions: Melbourne Intensive | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20088 | Indigenous History | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST20089 | Britain's Empire: Power and Resistance | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20090 | Gender in History, 1800 to the Present | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20091 | Migrant Nation: History Culture Identity | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30004 | A History of Sexualities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30010 | Hitler's Germany and Fascism | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30051 | Venice and Cultures of Consumption | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST30059 | Race in the Americas | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST30064 | Controversies in Australian History | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30065 | US and the World: Rise of a Superpower | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30066 | Cold War Cultures in Asia | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30068 | A History of Violence | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30074 | Global Histories of Indigenous Activism | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
HIST30077 | Global Diasporas, Hellenic Cultures | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30078 | Urban Indigenous History | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HPSC20002 | A History of Nature | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HPSC30034 | Magic, Reason and Science, 1450-1750 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://shaps.unimelb.edu.au/students/honours
Last updated: 8 November 2024