The Diploma of Letters (History) requires the equivalent of one year of full-time study. It is only offered as an exit award for students currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Letters (History).
The stream undertaken by the student will be identified on the student’s transcript of academic record and on the parchment presented to the student on completion of the course.
Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution. The College Dean of Education may, however, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.
The course aims to:
It is envisaged that the graduate qualities embedded in these aims will be introduced at first level, consolidated at the second level and mastered at the third level.
On the completion of the Diploma of Letters in (History), students are expected to be able to demonstrate:
To qualify for the Diploma of Letters (History), a student must complete 36 units according to the program of study set out below, with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic.
Not all topics necessarily are available in a given year.
36 units comprising:
Select 9 units from the following:
HIST1203 Australians at War (4.5 units)
HIST1703 Turning Points in World History (4.5 units)
HIST1704 History's Killing Fields (4.5 units)
HIST1801 Europe from Napoleon to World War One (4.5 units)
HIST1802 Europe from the Russian Revolution to Brexit (4.5 units)
HIST1803 'The Lucky Country'? A Brief History of Australia (4.5 units)
Select 13.5 units from the following:
HIST2009 Nazi Germany: Its Origins and Nature, 1870-1945 (4.5 units)
HIST2014 War and Society in the Modern World (4.5 units)
HIST2015 Maps and Dreams: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australian History (4.5 units)
HIST2016 Globalisation in World History (4.5 units)
HIST2018 Film and History (4.5 units)
HIST2020 Colonies, Empire and Revolution: North America 1500-1800 (4.5 units)
HIST2022 Memory and the Politics of Difference: Sex, Race and Belonging (4.5 units)
HIST2026 Change and Conflict in Russia, 1860-1930 (4.5 units)
HIST2030 The Great Powers in the Modern Middle East 1798-2001 (4.5 units)
HIST2042 Living the Revolution: The History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 (4.5 units)
HIST2043 Terrorism and Society in Modern Europe (4.5 units)
HIST2066 Outpost of Empire? South Australian History, 1834 to the Present (4.5 units)
HIST2067 Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Art and Archaeology (4.5 units)
HIST2075 The Real Games of Thrones: the Early Modern World 1453-1789 (4.5 units)
HIST2076 The Divided States of America, 1920-2000 (4.5 units)
HIST2077 Crisis and Catastrophe: Past Experiences, Future Prospects (4.5 units)
HIST2078 Crusade and Jihad in the Middle Ages (4.5 units)
WMST2016 Indigenous Women's Voices: Race, Gender and Colonialism (4.5 units)
Select 13.5 units from the following:
HIST3001 Destination Australia: Migration Since 1900 (4.5 units)
HIST3003 Romantics and Revolutionaries: European Culture and History, 1789-1918 (4.5 units)
HIST3004 Britannia's Rise and Fall: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences (4.5 units)
HIST3005 The Holocaust (4.5 units)
HIST3006 Empires: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (4.5 units)
HIST3007 Crimes of the Flesh: Sex and 'Deviance' in Australian History (4.5 units)
HIST3008 Australian Environmental Histories (4.5 units)
HIST3009 Civil War Era America (4.5 units)
HIST3010 One Nation Under God? Religion in American Public Life (4.5 units)
HIST3045 Guns and Butter: The United States in the Long 1960s (4.5 units)
HIST3046 The Great War: A Global History (4.5 units)
Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.
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