Credit points

80

Major available at

  • Blacktown
  • Brisbane
  • Melbourne
  • Strathfield

Completion requirements

A Major consists of 80cp.

Part A : Specified Units for History Major

Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:

CodeTitleCredit PointsNotes
HIST106Australian Indigenous Peoples Past and Present10
HIST308Making History10

Part B : Ancient World

Complete 0 to 60 credit points from the following:

CodeTitleCredit PointsNotes
HIST114Fall of the Roman Republic10
HIST222Greek City States10
HIST230Life and Death in Pompeii10
HIST255The Ancient Near East10
HIST265Ancient Rome: Kingdom, Republic and Empire10
HUMA250Ancient Greek History and Drama10
HUMA317History and Geography of Rome10

Part C : Asian, Australian and Indigenous Histories

Complete 0 to 40 credit points from the following:

CodeTitleCredit PointsNotes
HIST214Immigrants and Refugees in Australian History10
HIST218Oral History: Australian Women's Voices10
HIST253Underbelly Australia: Crime and Social History10
HIST261The Rise of Asia in the Modern World10

Part D : Europe, Britain and the Americas

Complete 0 to 60 credit points from the following:

CodeTitleCredit PointsNotes
HIST105Early Modern Europe10
HIST208Fascism10
HIST209Revolutionary Europe 1789-191710
HIST215Europe Divided and United 1945-Present10
HIST216Europe in the Middle Ages and Beyond10
HIST225Us Foreign Policy Since 194510
HIST229Rebels and Revolutions in Latin America10
HIST254History, Myth and Legend10
HIST260Keep Calm and Carry on British History Since 190110
HIST263The Making of Modern America, 1865 to 194510
HIST264From Truman to Trump the Us Since 194510
HUMA252Art, Politics and Society in Renaissance and Baroque Rome10
HUMA317History and Geography of Rome10

Part E : Contemporary, Comparative and Applied History

Complete 0 to 60 credit points from the following:

CodeTitleCredit PointsNotes
HIST112Film and History10
HIST115Global History: Six Degrees of Separation10
HIST251Human Rights in History10
HIST256War and Peace10
HIST257To Protect or Punish? Childhood and Youth in History10
HIST262Money and Power in the Western World10
HIST266News Flash: History and the Media10
HIST267Diasporas and Journeys: Migration in World History10
HIST327Settler Colonies in Indigenous Lands10
HIST341History and Memory: Uses and Abuses of the Past10
HIST342A History of the Present10
HUMA317History and Geography of Rome10
HUMA332Arts and Humanities Special Project10

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