Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the History specialisation, students will have developed the appropriate skills and knowledge to:

1. critically apply theoretical frameworks and research techniques to understanding national and international issues and problems;
2. relate a field of study in the arts, humanities or social sciences to its wider cultural and societal context;
3. critically evaluate ideas and develop creative solutions to complex problems; and
4. communicate and debate complex issues both orally and in writing, using a variety of media.

Other Information

For courses offered in both Online and In Person modes, International students must enrol in the In Person (on campus) class offering, or seek permission of the program convenor to enrol in online mode.


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Requirements

This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
HIST6007	Making History	6
HIST6110	Approaches to History	6

A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
HIST6022	Indigenous Australian History	6
HIST6107	American Voices: Aspects of Social Thought in the United States, 1900-1990	6
HIST6121	Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000	6
HIST6126	American Sixties	6
HIST6128	Convicts and Emigrants: Australia, 1770s to 1870s	6
HIST6133	Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, c. 1450-1950	6
HIST6136	World At War, 1939-1945	6
HIST6205	Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1492–1776.	6
HIST6213	Real Men: Manhood and Identity in the Western World	6
HIST6214	The Great War, 1914-1919	6
HIST6221	The Birth of Modernity: Britain 1688-1848	6
HIST6223	The French Revolution and Napoleon	6
HIST6226	Nazi Germany	6
HIST6228	Enlightenment Worlds	6
HIST6229	Sexuality in Australian History	6
HIST6236	Debating Anzac	6
HIST6237	Digital History, Digital Heritage	6
HIST6238	Rock, Sex and War: Australia's 1960s - 1970s	6
HIST6240	Democracy and Dissent: Europe Since 1945	6
HIST6509	Tudor-Stuart England c.1485-1714: Politics, Society, Culture	6
HIST8015	Colonial Australia in an Imperial World	6
HIST8016	Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters	6
HIST8017	Australia and the World at War	6
HIST8018	A Globalising World	6
HIST8022	History, Human Rights, and Globalisation	6

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