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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 study Credit points A: 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
6 N HSTY2634
HSTY1044
Europe since 1900
6 N HSTY1043
HSTY1089
Introduction to Australian History
6  

2000 level selective units of study

HSTY2606
China's Last Dynasty: The Great Qing
6 N HSTY2006
P 12 Junior credit points of History or 12 Junior credit points of Asian Studies
HSTY2609
African-American History and Culture
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
HSTY2626
Fascism and Antifascism
6 N 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

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

6 P 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

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

6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation Thought and Culture
HSTY2664
Medieval Cultures
6 N HSTY2064
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies
HSTY2666
American Revolutions
6 N 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
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History
HSTY2710
Renaissance and Reformation
6 N HSTY1031
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the History major
HSTY2711
Revolutionary Europe
6 P 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

6 N 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

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
ANHS2609
Alexander and the Hellenistic World

6 P 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
6 P 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

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
ANHS2635
Augustus and the Roman Revolution
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level from any combination of Ancient History, Latin, Ancient Greek, History, Philosophy, Archaeology
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 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
6 P 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
6 N ASNS2501
P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A
ASNS2642
Modern Korea
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level
N ASNS2502
ASNS2660
Islam, Trade and Society-Arabia to SE Asia
   
ASNS2661
History of Modern Indonesia

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

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

6  

3000 level units of study

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

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

HSTY3807
Indigenous History

 

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major
HSTY3808
Political and Economic History
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3809
Social and Cultural History
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3810
History of Ideas
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
HSTY3811
History Beyond the Classroom
6 N HSTY3902
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
ANHS3635
Historiography Ancient and Modern
6 P 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
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
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
ITLN3662
Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy
6 P 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
6 P 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
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project

6 C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
P 72 credit points