History Major

Total units 48 Units

Areas of interest History
Major code HIST-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Everything has a history. From a national constitution to modern consumer culture, from the rise of empires to environmental crises, from the human species to your family, history teaches you about the forces that have made the world in which you live. It helps you to understand the present by understanding its past.

The ANU is a national leader in History and offers a wide range of courses covering Australia, America, Asia and Europe. Courses trace themes such as empire, terrorism, revolution, war, gender, race, technology and the environment. Some focus on philosophies that underlie historical analysis or techniques of historical research. History is a core discipline in the humanities and social sciences. It gives students knowledge and skills that are valued in any professional context. Our students successfully pursue careers in journalism, management, politics, policy, museums, diplomacy, teaching, academia and many other fields.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successfulcompletion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Demonstrate understanding of multiple periods or cultures of the past.
Demonstrate understanding of key conceptual approaches to interpreting the past.
Examine historical issues by undertaking research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.
Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.
Identify and reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of History and their relationship to the contemporary world.

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 Units which include:

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
HIST2110	Approaches to History	6
HIST3007	Making History	6

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
EURO1004	Europe in the Modern Era	6
HIST1209	Terror to Terrorism: A History	6
HIST1214	Empires in Global History: 1200 to the Present	6
HIST1215	The Twentieth Century World	6

A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
HIST2022	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History	6
HIST2121	Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000	6
HIST2126	American Sixties	6
HIST2128	Convicts and Settlers: Australia 1770s to 1870s	6
HIST2133	Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, c. 1450-1950	6
HIST2136	World at War, 1939-1945	6
HIST2141	The Cold War: 1945-1989	6
HIST2144	Australia in the World: An International History	6
HIST2143	Celebrity: An Unauthorised History	6
HIST2142	Indigenous memory and history: On page, stage and screen	6
HIST2205	Europe and the Atlantic World, c.1492–1776.	6
HIST2206	The Anzac Battlefields and Beyond: A Study Tour of Gallipoli, London, Paris and the Western Front	12
HIST2214	The Great War, 1914-1918	6
HIST2219	Tudor-Stuart England, c.1485-1714: Politics, Society and Culture	6
HIST2220	Western Europe in the Later Middle Ages, c. 1348-1500	6
HIST2221	The Birth of Modernity: Britain 1688-1848	6
HIST2223	The French Revolution and Napoleon	6
HIST2226	Nazi Germany	6
HIST2227	Australian Political History	6
HIST2228	Enlightenment Worlds	6
HIST2229	Sexuality in Australian History	6
HIST2230	Latin America: Conquest and Colonisation	6
HIST2231	Exploration: Columbus to the Moon	6
HIST2232	Crime and Justice: Historical Dilemmas	6
HIST2233	How the Camera Changed History: A century of photography and cinema	6
HIST2234	The Reach of History: Presenting the past in the public domain	6
HIST2236	Debating Anzac	6
HIST2238	Human Rights in History	6
HIST2239	Rock, Sex and War: Australia's 1960s - 1970s	6
HIST2240	Democracy and Dissent: Europe Since 1945	6
HIST2242	The Soviet Union: From the Russian Revolution to the Collapse of Communism	6
HIST2243	Vikings, Crusades, Mongols: Shaping Medieval Europe, c. 850—1300	6
HIST2244	Legends and Life Stories: Australia since 1788	6

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ANCH2015	Travellers and Geographers in Antiquity	6
ANCH2017	Emperors and Madmen: The Early Roman Empire	6
ANCH2022	The Rise of the Roman Empire	6
ANCH3503	Bad Neighbours: Law and life in ancient Athens	6
ANCH3506	Dark Age to Democracy: early Greek history, 1000-480 BC	6
ARCH2004	Australian Archaeology	6
ARCH2037	Post-Roman Archaeology of Britain: From Arthur to the Black Death	6
ARCH2055	Archaeological Fieldschool	6
ARCH2056	Britons and Romans: Archaeology of the Western Roman Empire	6
ARTH2080	Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815	6
ARTH2081	Art of the European Courts, 1500-1815	12
ARTH2082	Art, War and Conflict	6
ARTH2097	Victorian and Edwardian Art: Australia and Europe 1837-1914	6
ASIA2009	The Making of Modern Japan: From Samurai to Economic Superpower and Beyond	6
ASIA2016	The Mongol Empire in World History	6
ASIA2037	History of Modern China	6
ASIA2040	The Making of Modern Korea	6
ASIA2044	Chinese History: The Imperial Period (221 BC - 1800)	6
ASIA2045	Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda	6
ASIA2072	Taiwan: History and Culture	6
ASIA2270	India Past and Present: The impact of pre-colonial history on India today	6
ASIA3272	Truth and Falsity in Indian History and Politics	6
ASIA2307	History of Empire in Asia	6
ASIA3011	Samurai Society and Social Control in Japan	6
ENGL2074	Jane Austen History and Fiction	6
GEND2021	Trauma, Memory and Culture	6
MEAS2000	Iranian History and Culture	6
MEAS2002	Turkish History: Ottoman State to Modern Turkey	6
MEAS2003	Modern Turkey: History, Culture and Regional Relations	6
PASI2002	Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries	6
WARS2004	War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific	6
POLS2100	Genocide in the Modern World	6
SOCY2053	Imagining the Future: A Sociology of Utopias	6

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