History Table
Please check the current students website (Find a unit of study) for up-to-date information on units of study including availability.
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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History |
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Major |
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A major in History requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units | |||
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
(iii) a minimum of 6 credit points of 3000-level core units | |||
(iii) a maximum of 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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A minor in History requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units | |||
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level core or selective units | |||
1000 level units of study |
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HSTY1001 History Workshop |
6 | Semester 2 |
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HSTY1002 Age of Empires |
6 | Semester 1 |
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HSTY1003 Birth of the Present: The world since 1750 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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HSTY1023 Emerging Giant: The Making of America |
6 | N HSTY2634 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY1044 Europe since 1900 |
6 | N HSTY1043 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY1089 Introduction to Australian History |
6 | Intensive July |
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2000 level units of study |
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HSTY2606 China's Last Dynasty: The Great Qing |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points of History or 12 Junior credit points of Asian Studies N HSTY2006 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2607 Palestine, Israel and the Middle East This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000-level in History, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Arabic Language and Culture or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or ARBC3615 N JCTC2008 or GOVT2772 |
Semester 1 |
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 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2613 Russia's Revolutions: 1905 to Present This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12cp at 1000 level History units |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2616 The Human Rights Revolution This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in History or Ancient History or Asian Studies |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2618 The Age of the Crusades This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000-level in History or Ancient History N HSTY2018 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2626 Fascism and Antifascism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History or Asian Studies or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture N HSTY2026 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2629 Sex and Scandal |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History N HSTY2029 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2630 Panics and Pandemics This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the History major or 6 credit points at 1000 level from the History major and 6 credit points at 1000 level from the (Sociology or Social Policy or Gender Studies or Cultural Studies or International Relations or English or Art History or Studies in Religion or History and Philosophy of Science) majors |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2631 Sin City? A History of Sydney This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2640 Twentieth-Century China This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Asian Studies N HSTY3071 or HSTY3072 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2642 Beyond The Great Wall: China's Frontiers This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P (12 Junior credit points of History) or (12 Junior credit points of Asian Studies) |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2647 Renaissance Italy This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points each in either History or Ancient History N HSTY2047 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2652 Genocide in Historical Perspective This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Jewish Civilisation Thought and Culture |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2656 A House Divided: The American Civil War This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2664 Medieval Cultures |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History, Ancient History or Asian Studies N HSTY2064 |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2677 Australia: Politics and Nation |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2681 Colonialism in Modern Asia This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2700 What Do We Want? Protest in Australia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or Ancient History |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2701 Spies in the Archive This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
Semester 1 |
HSTY2711 Revolutionary Europe 1780-1920 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the History major N HSTY1045 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2712 American History from Lincoln to Trump This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit units at 1000 level in the History major N HSTY1076 |
Semester 2 |
HSTY2717 Brexit in Historical Perspective This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
Semester 1 |
ANHS2603 Ancient Greek Democracies This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | 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 N ANHS2003 |
Semester 2 |
ANHS2606 The City of Rome: History and Landscape This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
Intensive January |
ANHS2609 Alexander and the Hellenistic World This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 1 |
ANHS2614 The Emperor in the Roman World 14-117 AD This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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ANHS2618 The Later Roman Empire: AD 284-476 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
Semester 1 |
ANHS2622 Herodotus and His World |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or History or (6 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History and 6 credit points at 1000 level in either Latin, Greek (Ancient), History, or Archaeology) N ANHS3609 |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 1 |
ASNS2634 Samurai and Merchants: Tokugawa Japan This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level each in either Asian Studies or History N ASNS2304 |
Semester 1 |
ASNS2642 Modern Korea |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level N ASNS2502 |
Semester 2 |
ASNS2661 History of Modern Indonesia This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points in units of study listed in Table A |
Semester 2 |
ASNS2672 Japan in East Asia This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level |
Semester 2 |
AMST2607 Climate Crisis in America |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
Semester 1 |
USSC2604 Sex, Race and Rock: US Culture This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Intensive July |
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3000 level units of study |
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Core |
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HSTY3901 History in the Making |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History |
Semester 2 |
HSTY3902 History Beyond the Classroom |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History |
Semester 2 |
HSTY3903 History and Historians |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in History |
Semester 1 |
Selective |
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HSTY3801 Asian History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 1 |
HSTY3802 Medieval and Early Modern History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 2 |
HSTY3803 British and Modern European History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 2 |
HSTY3804 American History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 1 |
HSTY3805 Australian History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 1 |
HSTY3806 Global History This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the History major |
Semester 1 |
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 |
Semester 2 |
ASNS3002 Modern Japan |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in History |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 1 |
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) |
Semester 2 |
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 |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project units of study |
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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 Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
HSTY3999 Interdisciplinary Impact This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
HSTY3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |