This course provides students with an opportunity to undertake a program of in-depth reading in an area of history under the guidance of a staff member. The nature of the program will be negotiated between the student and a proposed supervisor, but might include Australian History, Indigenous History, Environmental History, Imperial and Colonial History, Medieval and Early Modern History, the history of Gender and Sexuality, American History, European History, or Transnational History.

Students must gain the formal agreement of a staff member to supervise them before enrolling in this course.

This course may be repeated for credit and taken up to 4 times if a different topic is studied each time. Enrolment multiple times in a teaching session is permitted with permission from the convenor.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. formulate a coherent program of reading in consultation with a professional historian;
2. identify a series of historical questions and problems in a field and devise a plan for dealing with them;
3. analyse the major contributions to the historiography of a coherent field of study;
4. evaluate the significant debates, problems and controversies in a particular field of historical study; and
5. locate and interpret a body of primary source materials relevant to the field of historical study.