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History

Errata
Item Errata Date
1. HSTY2659 Nationalism is on offer in Semester 1. 19/2/2018
2. HSTY2656 A House Divided is not on offer in 2018. 19/3/2018
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

History

Major

A major in History requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units
(iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in History requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level units

1000 level units of study

HSTY1001
History Workshop
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
HSTY1002
Age of Empires
6      Semester 1
HSTY1003
Forging of the Modern World
6      Semester 2

2000 level units of study

HSTY2304
Imperialism, 1815-2000
6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY2605
Contemporary Europe

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 junior credit points of History or Ancient History) or (6 senior credit points of European Studies)
N HSTY2005
Semester 2
HSTY2607
Palestine, Israel and the Middle East
6    P 12 Junior credit points in History, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Arabic Language and Culture or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
N JCTC2008 or GOVT2772
Semester 1
HSTY2608
European Film and History
6    P (12 Junior credit points in History or Ancient History) or (6 Senior credit points in European Studies) or (18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011) or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
N HSTY2008
Semester 1
HSTY2609
African-American History and Culture

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 1
Summer Main
HSTY2611
America in World Affairs: A History

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
Semester 2
HSTY2613
Russia's Revolutions: 1905 to Present

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 1
Summer Main
HSTY2615
Australia: Environment, Place and History

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
Semester 1
HSTY2616
The Human Rights Revolution
6    P 12 Junior credit points in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
Semester 2
HSTY2618
The Age of the Crusades
6    P 12 Junior credit points in History or Ancient History
N HSTY2018
Semester 2
HSTY2626
Fascism and Antifascism
6    P 12 junior credit points in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
N HSTY2026
Semester 1
HSTY2628
BOOM! The History of War

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
Summer Main
HSTY2629
Sex and Scandal

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
N HSTY2029
Semester 2
Winter Main
HSTY2631
Sin City? A History of Sydney
6    P 12 Junior credit points each in any of History or Ancient History or Socio-Legal Studies
Semester 2
HSTY2632
Love and Death in the Middle Ages

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY2638
Modern China's Wars, 1895-1953

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or 12 Junior credit points of Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY2640
Twentieth-Century China
6    P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Asian Studies
N HSTY3071 or HSTY3072
Semester 1
HSTY2645
Venice Floating City: Myth and History

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History or Ancient History
N HSTY2045
Semester 1
HSTY2647
Renaissance Italy
6    P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Ancient History
N HSTY2047
Semester 2
HSTY2652
Genocide in Historical Perspective

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History or Ancient History
N HSTY2052
Semester 1
HSTY2656
A House Divided: The American Civil War
6    P 12 junior credit points in Ancient History or Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
N HSTY2056
Semester 2
HSTY2664
Medieval Cultures

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
N HSTY2064
Semester 2
HSTY2666
American Revolutions
6    P (12 junior credit points in History or 12 junior credit points in Ancient History) or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1023 or HSTY1076))
N HSTY2066
Semester 1
HSTY2670
Black Manhattan
6    P 12 junior credit points in Ancient History or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1023 or HSTY1076)) or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
Semester 2
HSTY2671
Law and Order in Modern America

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History) or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1023 or HSTY1076))
Semester 2
HSTY2672
Britain and the World: C.1837-1914
6    P 12 junior credit points in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
Semester 2
HSTY2676
Australia's World

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY2677
Australia: Politics and Nation

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
Semester 1
HSTY2682
Portraits of Medieval Women

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
N HSTY3696
Semester 1
HSTY2687
Alliance Anxiety: Australia-USA-Asia

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 junior credit points of History or 12 junior credit points of Ancient History) or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1023 or HSTY1076))
Semester 1
HSTY2689
Civility and Squalor: 18 C. British Isles
6    P 12 junior credit points in junior History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
N HSTY3699
Semester 1
HSTY2693
Frontier Violence in Modern Memory

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY2695
Reconquest? A History of Medieval Spain

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY2696
The Empire Strikes Back

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY2698
Free Speech: An International History

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY2699
Global Epidemics: From Black Death to Ebola

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY2700
What Do We Want? Protest in Australia
6    P 12 junior credit points in HSTY or ANHS
Semester 2
HSTY2701
Spies in the Archive
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
Semester 1
HSTY2702
Gender and Medicine in Modern America
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
N HSTY2619, HSTY2697
Semester 1
HSTY2703
Convicts and Capitalists
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY2704
Vikings of the Sunrise
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
Semester 1
HSTY2705
History of Capitalism
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
Semester 2
HSTY2706
France in Modern Europe and Beyond
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
N HSTY2658
Semester 1
ANHS2603
Ancient Greek Democracies
6    P 12 Junior credit points of Ancient History or History OR 6 Junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 Junior credit points of either Classical Studies, Latin, Greek (Ancient) or Archaeology
N ANHS2003
Semester 2
ANHS2606
The City of Rome: History and Landscape
6    P 6 Junior credit points in ANHS and 6 credit points in any of Ancient History, History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Greek (Ancient) or Latin or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Archaeology
Intensive January
Semester 1
ANHS2609
Alexander and the Hellenistic World

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 credit points of ANHS or HSTY OR 6 credit points of ANHS and 6 credit points of ARCA, GRKA, HSTY, LATN or PHIL
Semester 1
Summer Early
ANHS2610
SPQR: The Senate and the People of Rome

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of Ancient History, History or Classical Studies OR (6 Junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies and 6 Junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), History or Archaeology)
Semester 2
ANHS2618
The Later Roman Empire (AD 286-474)

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of Ancient History, Greek (Ancient), Latin or History OR (6 Junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 Junior credit points of either History, Latin, Greek (Ancient), Philosophy or Archaeology)
Semester 2
ANHS2622
Herodotus and His World

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points of Ancient History or History OR (6 Junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 Junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), History, or Archaeology)
N ANHS3609
Semester 2
ANHS2635
Augustus and the Roman Revolution
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Ancient History, Greek (Ancient), Latin or History or 6 Junior credit points in Ancient History and 6 Junior credit points in History, Latin, Greek (Ancient), Philosophy or Archaeology
Semester 1
ASNS2618
Remaking Chinese Society, 1949-Present
6    A Students with no prior knowledge of modern Chinese history are encouraged to read an introductory textbook (e.g., Edwin E. Moise. Modern China: A History. Second edition. Longman, 1994) before the start of the semester.
P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
N ASNS2118
Semester 1
ASNS2627
India, China, Tibet: Cultural Relations
6    P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
Semester 2
ASNS2631
Origins of Japanese Tradition
6    P 12 Junior credit points in Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Chinese Studies, Indonesian Studies, Sanskrit, History, Ancient History or International and Global Studies


This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Semester 1
ASNS2634
Samurai and Merchants: Tokugawa Japan
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level each in either Asian Studies or History
N ASNS2304
Semester 2
ASNS2636
The Enigma of Japanese Power

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 12 Junior credit points from Table A
N ASNS2306 or JPNS2316
Semester 2
ASNS2641
Traditional Korea
6    P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
N ASNS2501
Semester 1
ASNS2642
Modern Korea
6    P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
N ASNS2502
Semester 2
ASNS2660
Islam, Trade and Society-Arabia to SE Asia

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 Junior credit points from Asian Studies) or (12 Junior credit points from History or 12 Junior credit points from Ancient History) or (12 Junior credit points of Indonesian Studies)
N ASNS2402
Semester 1
ASNS2661
History of Modern Indonesia
6    P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
Semester 1
ASNS2672
Japan in East Asia
6    P 12 Junior credit points from Table A
Semester 1
USSC2604
Sex, Race and Rock in the USA
6    P 12 junior credit points from one of the following subject area; American Studies, Anthropology, Music, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, English, European Studies, Government and International Relations, History, International and Global Studies, Media and Communications, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Economy or Sociology
N HSTY2057
Semester 2

3000 level units of study

HSTY3901
History in the Making
6    P 18 Senior credit points in History or Ancient History
Semester 1
HSTY3902
History Beyond the Classroom
6    P 18 Senior credit points in History or Ancient History
Semester 2
HSTY3903
History and Historians
6    P 18 Senior credit points in History or Ancient History
Semester 2
ANHS3635
Historiography Ancient and Modern
6    P 12 Senior credit points each in either Ancient History or History
N ANHS2691 or ANHS2692 or ANHS2612
Semester 2
ASNS3002
Modern Japanese Social History
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
Semester 1
JCTC3002
The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or 12 credit Points at 2000 level in European Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
Semester 2
JCTC3003
The Modern Jewish Experience
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or 12 credit points at 2000 level in European Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Modern Hebrew
Semester 1
ITLN3662
Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy
6    P 6 Senior credit points in any of European Studies, European or Middle Eastern or Classical Languages or Studies or Asian Studies or Government or History or Ancient History or Philosophy or Studies in Religion or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Italian Studies or History
Semester 1

Interdisciplinary Project units of study

FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6    P 18 credit points at 2000 level

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2

Honours

Honours in History requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 4000-level seminar core units
(ii) 36 credit points of 4000-level thesis units

Seminar

HSTY4101
Approach Seminar
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
HSTY4102
Field Seminar
6      Semester 1
Semester 2

Thesis

HSTY4201
History Honours Thesis 1
12      Semester 1
Semester 2
HSTY4202
History Honours Thesis 2
24      Semester 1
Semester 2

Advanced coursework

The requirements for advanced coursework in History are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
24-36 credit points of advanced study will be included in the table for 2019.