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History
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Sarah Walsh
Email: sarah.walsh@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 electives and Arts Discovery subjects including:
- A minimum of 12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives
- 37.5 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone Subject
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
*Note:
Please note: Students must undertake an Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery subject can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: An Arts Discovery subject and one Level 1 Elective subject for the first major and two Level 1 Elective subjects for the second major.
Level 1 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST10012 | The World Since World War II | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST10015 | Dictators & Democrats: The Modern World | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST10016 | Europe: From Black Death to New Worlds | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST10017 | Gender, Rights, and Power in History | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST20013 | The Holocaust & Genocide | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20034 | Modern Southeast Asia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20052 | Venice and Cultures of Consumption | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20059 | Slavery & Freedom: US History, 1763-1945 | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20060 | Total War: World War II | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20065 | Rebels and Revolutionaries | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20068 | The French Revolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20071 | Protest & Politics: US History, 1945-Now | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20072 | Pirates and their Enemies | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20080 | Witch-Hunting in European Societies | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20084 | Red Empire: The Soviet Union and After | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20086 | China in Global History since 1945 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20087 | City Visions: Melbourne Intensive | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST20088 | Indigenous History | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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 |
HPSC20002 | A History of Nature | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Capstone Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST30060 | Making History | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST30004 | A History of Sexualities | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30006 | The Renaissance in Italy | 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 2025 | 12.5 |
HIST30059 | No longer available | ||
HIST30064 | Controversies in Australian History | Semester 1 (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 | No longer available | ||
HIST30076 | Stalinism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30077 | Global Diasporas, Hellenic Cultures | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30078 | Urban Indigenous History | Semester 2 (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/history
Last updated: 4 December 2024