History - HISTB14806
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Contact: hal@unsw.edu.au
Program: 4806 - Art Theory/Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
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Stream Outline
History is the study of humanity in all its dimensions. It explores the diversity of human experience, the richness of difference in ideas, culture and institutions. We look into many pasts to try to understand today’s world, to recognize what we share and to measure how profoundly our lives today differ and why. Our interests cover social, cultural, intellectual, political and military history, and we teach and conduct research in histories of gender, ethnicity and religion in world history.
UNSW’s History program is distinctive among Australian universities in pioneering Transnational history which concerns the circulation of peoples, ideas, technologies and institutions across national boundaries since the emergence of nation states as an important phenomenon in world history. History teaches clear thinking, analysis, written and oral communication skills. These attributes are the foundation of citizenship and ideal qualities for employment across a range of careers.
The ultimate aim of the UNSW BA with a major stream in History is to develop historically informed graduates who are critical, reflective and creative. Specifically, a major stream in History seeks to:
UNSW’s History program is distinctive among Australian universities in pioneering Transnational history which concerns the circulation of peoples, ideas, technologies and institutions across national boundaries since the emergence of nation states as an important phenomenon in world history. History teaches clear thinking, analysis, written and oral communication skills. These attributes are the foundation of citizenship and ideal qualities for employment across a range of careers.
The ultimate aim of the UNSW BA with a major stream in History is to develop historically informed graduates who are critical, reflective and creative. Specifically, a major stream in History seeks to:
- Impart the fascination and rigour of historical enquiry through relating events to the widely varying contexts of the past
- Provide perspectives on current issues and debates which draw on History’s distinctive capacity for exploring the nature of change over time. In so doing, students will be encouraged to engage in a dialogue between what is familiar from the present and the otherness of the past.
- Explore the way in which we understand and construct the past and the way in which such understanding helps shape present identities.
Stream Structure
A student who wishes to gain a major stream in History must complete 54 units of credit including 12 uoc at Level 1, at least 18 uoc at level 2 and at least 18 uoc at level 3 including the capstone course.
Level 1
The two history courses offered at Level 1 cover World History from the beginnings of human existence to the 20th century. They are ARTS1270 Global History and ARTS1271 The History Matrix. ARTS1270 is a compulsory course.
To fulfil the requirements at level one, students must complete:
Level 1
The two history courses offered at Level 1 cover World History from the beginnings of human existence to the 20th century. They are ARTS1270 Global History and ARTS1271 The History Matrix. ARTS1270 is a compulsory course.
To fulfil the requirements at level one, students must complete:
- ARTS1270 Global History (6 UOC)
AND EITHER
- ARTS1271 The History Matrix (6 UOC)
OR one of the following courses:
- ARTS1190 Australian Legends (6 UOC)
- ARTS1210 Concepts of Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS1211 Australia's Asian Context (6 UOC)
- ARTS1780 Concepts of Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS1781 Europe and the Modern World (6 UOC)
- ARTS1900 Gendered Worlds (6 UOC)
Level 2
History Courses:
- ARTS2270 The Fatal Shore? (6 UOC)
- ARTS2271 Australia 1901-2008 (6 UOC)
- ARTS2272 Renaissance to Revolutions (6 UOC)
- ARTS2273 19th century Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS2278 US History 1750-1890 (6 UOC)
- ARTS2281 Ancient Egypt (6 UOC)
- ARTS2282 Rome (6 UOC)
- ARTS2283 Classical Greece (6 UOC)
- ARTS2284 Europe in the Middle Ages (6 UOC)
- ARTS2285 The Holocaust (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the History major stream:
- ARTS2150 Modern United States History (6 UOC)
- ARTS2195 Anzac Revisited: War & Gender (6 UOC)
- ARTS2210 Modern India (6 UOC)
- ARTS2212 Southeast Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2303 On Drugs (6 UOC)
- ARTS2458 Along the Silk Road (6 UOC)
- ARTS2750 Modern Latin America (6 UOC)
- ARTS2781 Postwar Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS2785 Europe between the Wars (6 UOC)
- ARTS2786 Minorities in Modern Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS2904 Dressed to Kill (6 UOC)
- ARTS2906 History of Sexuality (6 UOC)
- ARTS2908 Premodern Japan (6 UOC)
- ARTS2909 Women in Southeast Asia (6 UOC)
- CRIM2041 Crime and Punishment (6 UOC)
Level 3
History Courses:
- ARTS3217 History of Modern China (6 UOC)
- ARTS3279 Winners and Losers (6 UOC)
- ARTS3283 Ancient Dynasties (6 UOC)
- ARTS3288 US and the Middle East (6 UOC)
- ARTS3289 Documentary Film and History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3290 Empires in World History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3292 Migrants and Refugees (6 UOC)
- ARTS3293 Colonial Latin America (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the History major stream:
- ARTS3212 Powerful India (6 UOC)
- ARTS3220 Asian Cities (6 UOC)
- ARTS3242 Environmental History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3780 Contemporary Germany (6 UOC)
- ARTS3786 Confronting the Past (6 UOC)
- ARTS3900 Gender & Queer Critiques (6 UOC)
- ATSI3017 Indigenous Histories (6 UOC)
- CRIM3021 History from Crime (6 UOC)
History Capstone course (Compulsory)
- ARTS3270 History Capstone (6 UOC)
