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Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Jenny Spinks
Email: jspinks@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of either:
-
12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major)
OR
25 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)
- 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:
Students must undertake the Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 Elective subject OR Two Level 1 Elective subjects
Level 1 electives
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 |
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 2024 | 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 |
HIST20059 | Slavery & Freedom: US History, 1763-1945 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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 |
HIST20071 | Protest & Politics: US History, 1945-Now | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20072 | Pirates and their Enemies | Not available in 2024 | 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 |
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 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30006 | The Renaissance in Italy | Not available in 2024 | 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 |
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 1 (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: 21 March 2024