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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
Australia Now!
6  
INDG1002
Introduction to Indigenous 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 Since 1865
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 History
HSTY2711
Revolutionary Europe
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
N HSTY1045
HSTY2718
A Global History of Forced Migration
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
HSTY2719
Age of Conquest
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History
ANHS2622
Herodotus and His World
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level from any combination of Ancient History, Latin, Ancient Greek, History, Philosophy, Archaeology, English
N ANHS3609
ASNS2642
Modern Korea
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level
N ASNS2502
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 from ASNS or JPNS or KRNS or CHNS or INMS or INGS or SANS or HSTY.

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 History
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 History
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 History

HSTY3807
Indigenous History

 

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History
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
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