History

Unit of study table

Major

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

Minor

A minor in History requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(iii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units

 

Unit of studyCredit pointsA: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

Core
HSTY1001
History Workshop
6 
Selective
HSTY1002
Age of Empires
6 
HSTY1003
Birth of the Present: The world since 1750

6 
HSTY1023
Emerging Giant: The Making of America
6N HSTY2634
HSTY1044
Europe since 1900
6N HSTY1043
HSTY1089
Introduction to Australian History
6 

2000 level selective units of study

HSTY2606
China's Last Dynasty: The Great Qing
6N HSTY2006
P 12 Junior credit points of History or 12 Junior credit points of Asian Studies
HSTY2609
African-American History and Culture
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
HSTY2626
Fascism and Antifascism
6N HSTY2026
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History or Asian Studies or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
HSTY2628
BOOM! The History of War

6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History
HSTY2629
Sex and Scandal
6N HSTY2029
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History
HSTY2631
Sin City? A History of Sydney

6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-legal Studies
HSTY2640
Twentieth-Century China

6P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Asian Studies
N HSTY3071 or HSTY3072
HSTY2652
Genocide in Historical Perspective

6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation Thought and Culture
HSTY2664
Medieval Cultures
6N HSTY2064
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
HSTY2666
American Revolutions
6N HSTY2066
P 12 junior credit points in History or 12 junior credit points in Ancient History or AMST1001 and HSTY1023 or HSTY1076
HSTY2677
Being Australian
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History
HSTY2710
Renaissance and Reformation
6N HSTY1031
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the History major
HSTY2711
Revolutionary Europe
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
N HSTY1045
HSTY2713
A Global History of Forced Migration
6 
HSTY2714
Colonisation in the Americas
6 
ANHS2603
Ancient Greek Democracies

6N ANHS2003
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
ANHS2606
The City of Rome: History and Landscape

6P 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
ANHS2609
Alexander and the Hellenistic World

6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
ANHS2610
The Roman Republic from Rise to Revolution
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level from any combination of Ancient History, Latin, Ancient Greek, History, Philosophy, Archaeology
ANHS2614
The Emperor in the Roman World 14-117 AD

6 
ANHS2618
The Later Roman Empire: AD 284-476

6P 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
ANHS2635
Augustus and the Roman Revolution
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level from any combination of Ancient History, Latin, Ancient Greek, History, Philosophy, Archaeology
ASNS2618
Remaking Chinese Society, 1949-Present
6A 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 credit points at 1000 level from Asian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Chinese Studies or Indonesian Studies or Sanskrit or History or Ancient History
ASNS2627
Tantric Buddhism in India and Tibet
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Chinese Studies or Indonesian Studies or Sanskrit or History
ASNS2636
The Enigma of Japanese Power
6 
ASNS2641
Traditional Korea
6N ASNS2501
P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
ASNS2642
Modern Korea
6P 12 credit points at 1000 level
N ASNS2502
ASNS2660
Islam, Trade and Society-Arabia to SE Asia
  
ASNS2661
History of Modern Indonesia

6P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
ASNS2672
Japan in East Asia

6P 12 credit points at 1000 level
USSC2604
Sex, Race and Rock: US Culture

6 

3000 level units of study

Core
HSTY3903
History and Historians
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
Selective
HSTY3801
Asian History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major
HSTY3802
Medieval and Early Modern History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3803
British and Modern European History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3804
American History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major
HSTY3805
Australian History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3806
Global History

6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major

HSTY3807
Indigenous History

 

6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major
HSTY3808
Political and Economic History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3809
Social and Cultural History
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3810
History of Ideas
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3811
History Beyond the Classroom
6N HSTY3902
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
ANHS3635
Historiography Ancient and Modern
6P 12 credit points at 2000-level from Ancient History or (6 credit points at 2000 level from Ancient History and 6 credit points at 2000 level from History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Ancient Greek, or Latin)
N ANHS2691 or ANHS2692 or ANHS2612
JCTC3002
The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
6P 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
JCTC3003
The Modern Jewish Experience
6P 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
ITLN3662
Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy
6P 6 credit points at 2000 level in any of European Studies or 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 majors or (12 credit points at 1000 level or 2000 level or 3000 level in Italian Studies)
USSC3603
Dissent and Protest in America
6P 12 credit points at 2000 level in American Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in History

Interdisciplinary Project units of study

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6P Completion of at least 90 credit points
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project

6C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
P 72 credit points