Master of History (Advanced)

Master

In Canberra (Australia)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Canberra (Australia)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Credits

    96

With internationally renowned teaching staff, and surrounded by national cultural institutions, ANU is a historian’s dream.Studying history at ANU you can draw upon our prize-winning teaching and research in Australian, North American, ancient, early modern and modern European, and British history, and the expertise of our leading centres for Indigenous history, environmental history, and biography.The resources of the National Library of Australia, the National Archives of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, and the National Gallery of Australia are also all at your fingertips.The Master of History (Advanced) provides the theoretical grounding and practical skills you need for the advanced study of history, plus the opportunity to tailor a program according to your interests. If you’re a secondary school teacher, you are able to focus on areas in the national curriculum for history.

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Canberra (Australia)
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The Australian National University, ACT 0200

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About this course

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 6.0/7.0, and the approval of an identified supervisor for the research project/thesis..
Students must have the written agreement of an identified supervisor in order to enrol in THES8102 Thesis in a specified semester one calendar year in advance of the start date of that semester eaves the university or is on leave from the university, will be transferred to the Master of History.
Applicants with a Bachelor Degree or Graduate Certificate in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 24 units (one semester) of credit....

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Course programme

The Master of History (Advanced) requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following introductory courses:

ANCH6013 Ancient World in Film
ANCH6026 Rome: After Empire (Europe 400–800 AD)
ANCH6101 Cultures in conflict: Greeks, Romans and others in southern Italy and Sicily
ANCH6102 State, sanctuary and community: archaeology of settlement and memory in ancient Greece
ANCH6103 Ancient Athens: democracy and empire
ANCH6104 Rome: Republic to Empire
ANCH6501 Travellers and Geographers in Antiquity
ANCH6502 Bad neighbours: evidence of Athenian life from 4th century law-court speeches
ANCH6505 A region in antiquity: Gallipoli and western Turkey
ANCH6506 Dark Age to democracy: early Greek history, 1000-480 BC
HIST6022 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
HIST6121 Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States,1865-2000
HIST6126 American Sixties
HIST6128 Convicts and Emigrants: Australia, 1770s to 1870s
HIST6133 Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, c. 1450-1950
HIST6136 World At War, 1939-1945
HIST6205 Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1492-1776
HIST6213 Real Men: Manhood and Identity in the Western World
HIST6214 The Great War, 1914-1919
HIST6221 The Birth of Modernity: Britain 1688-1848
HIST6223 The French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST6228 Enlightenment Worlds
HIST6229 Sexuality in Australian History
HIST6232 Crime and Justice: Historical Dilemmas
HIST6233 How the Camera Changed History: A century of photography and cinema
HIST6234 The Reach of History: Presenting the past in the public domain
HIST6235 Exploration: Columbus to the Moon
HIST6236 Debating Anzac
HIST6237 Digital History, Digital Heritage
HIST6238 Rock, Sex and War: Australia's 1960s - 1970s
HIST6240 Democracy and Dissent: Europe Since 1945
HIST6242 The Soviet Union: From the Russian Revolution to the Collapse of Communism
HIST6243 Vikings, Crusades, Mongols: Shaping Medieval Europe c.850–1300
HIST6244 Legends and Life Stories: Australia Since 1788
HIST6509 Tudor-Stuart England c.1485-1714: Politics, Society, Culture
HUMN6001 Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects
HUMN6002 Gutenberg to Google: Histories of Information
HUMN6003 Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices

24 units from completion of the following disciplinary courses:

ASIA8049 International History from Asia and the Pacific: Framing Critical Perspectives
ASIA8512 Supervised Project in Asia-Pacific Studies
CLAS8002 Graduate Reading Course A
CLAS8008 Readings in Classics
HIST8011 Biography and History
HIST8015 Colonial Australia in an Imperial World
HIST8016 Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters
HIST8021 Readings in History
HIST8023 History Incorporated: Early Modern Bodies, 1550-1750
HIST8026 Nazism: The Politics and Practices of Memory
HUMN8009 Biography and Society
HUMN8030 Digital Humanities and Public Culture Research Project
HUMN8038 Oral History and Heritage Practice and Theory

12 units from completion of research training courses from the following list:

CLAS8019 Classics Methods and Evidence
HIST6110 Approaches to History
HIST8024 Seminar in Advanced Historiography

12 units from completion of HIST8027 Seminar in Advanced Historical Research

24 units from completion of Thesis courses on the following list:

THES8102 Thesis
THES8113 Thesis (Online)

Students must have the written agreement of an identified supervisor in order to enrol in either THES8102 Thesis or THES8113 Thesis (Online) in a specified semester one calendar year in advance of the start date of that semester.

Students who do not have the written agreement of an identified supervisor one calendar year in advance, or whose agreed supervisor either subsequently leaves the university or is on leave from the university, will be transferred to the Master of History.

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.

Master of History (Advanced)

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