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Learning Outcomes

1.
Exhibit initiative and self-direction
  • Professionals
  • Leaders
2.
Act ethically, respectfully and responsibly
  • Global Citizens
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
3.
Collaborate effectively with others
  • Leaders
  • Professionals
4.
Articulate a broad body of knowledge about past societies and cultures to understand processes of historical change
  • Scholars
5.
Explain various dynamic approaches to interpreting the past, and the ways in which the past informs the present
  • Scholars
  • Professionals
6.
Describe how different forms of historical evidence are used to inform understandings of history
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
7.
Undertake rigorous and engaged scholarly enquiry and analysis
  • Scholars
  • Professionals
8.
Communicate and debate complex ideas in a range of different contexts using a variety of suitable media
  • Professionals
  • Leaders
  • Scholars
9.
Critically and creatively employ disciplinary bodies of knowledge and appraise disciplinary perspectives in professional practice and/or scholarship
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
10.
Justify a position in relation to foundational aspects of society, culture and/or the arts
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
  • Global Citizens
11.
Engage proactively with complex problems in professional practice and/or scholarship
  • Professionals
  • Scholars
12.
Continuously acquire knowledge and skills and reflect on existing knowledge and skills for personal and career fulfilment
  • Professionals
  • Leaders
  • Scholars

Graduate Capabilities

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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Arts - BA3409 - Arts
Bachelor of Arts and Business - BArts (Bus)3444 - Arts and Business
Bachelor of Commerce (International) - BCom(International)3558 - Commerce (International)

Specialisation Structure
60 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 60 UOC.

Level 1 Core Courses

You must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS1270
6 UOC
Global History: Exploring the First Globalization, 15th-19th Century

Level 3 Capstone Course

You must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3270
6 UOC
Reflecting on Histories and Historians: Capstone

Level 1 Prescribed Electives

You must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS1271
6 UOC
History of the Present: The World since 1900
ARTS1900
6 UOC
Gendered Worlds: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Level 2 Region/Area Electives

You must complete 24 UOC at Level 2, including 6 UOC each from two different regions or areas listed below.

Level 2 Asia Region Electives

If you select Asia as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2210
6 UOC
Modern India: Violence and Nonviolence in Colonial South Asia, 1750-1947
ARTS2211
6 UOC
East Asia
ARTS2212
6 UOC
Southeast Asia
ARTS2457
6 UOC
China Imagined and Perceived
ARTS2663
6 UOC
Korea and Japan: Chinese Cultural Transmission

Level 2 Australia Region Electives

If you select Australia as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2270
6 UOC
Australia 1788-1900: Invasion to White Australia
ARTS2271
6 UOC
Inventing Modern Australia: 1900 to Now

Level 2 Europe Region Electives

If you select Europe as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2272
6 UOC
The European World, 1500-1800
ARTS2285
6 UOC
The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
ARTS2303
6 UOC
On Drugs: Industry, Science and Medicine since 1900
ARTS2781
6 UOC
Postwar Europe: Politics, Societies, Cultures
ARTS2785
6 UOC
Europe's Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945
CRIM2041
6 UOC
Crime and Punishment in Historical Perspective

Level 2 The Americas Region Electives

If you select The Americas as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2150
6 UOC
The Making of Trump's America
ARTS2278
6 UOC
Slavery and Freedom: US History 1750-1890
ARTS2303
6 UOC
On Drugs: Industry, Science and Medicine since 1900
ARTS2750
6 UOC
Modern Latin America: Dependency and Development

Level 2 Women’s & Gender Studies Electives

If you select Women's and Gender Studies as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2900
6 UOC
Global Feminisms: Competing Visions, Varying Histories
ARTS2904
6 UOC
Dressed to Kill: Dress and Identity in History
ARTS2906
6 UOC
History of Sexuality
ARTS2908
6 UOC
Premodern Japan: Status, Sex and Power

Level 2 Ancient History Electives

If you select Ancient History as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS2281
6 UOC
Ancient Egypt and Western Asia
ARTS2282
6 UOC
Rome
ARTS2283
6 UOC
Classical Greece

Level 3 Region/Area Electives

You must complete 18 UOC at Level 3, including 6 UOC each from the same two regions and/or areas you selected for Level 2. The Level 3 courses are listed below.NOTE: Although some courses are listed in multiple regions, a course can only count toward completing the requirement of one … For more content click the Read More button below.

Level 3 Asia Region Electives

If you select Asia as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3212
6 UOC
Contemporary India Through Bollywood: Politics, Society and Culture
ARTS3217
6 UOC
History of Modern China: Contested Visions
ARTS3218
6 UOC
Japanese History: Modern Miracles and Mythologies
ARTS3220
6 UOC
Asian Cities: Studies in History, Culture and Trade
ARTS3290
6 UOC
Empires in World History
ARTS3640
6 UOC
Japan and Korea: Cultures in Conflict

Level 3 Australia Region Electives

If you select Australia as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3279
6 UOC
Inequality in Australia: A History
ARTS3289
6 UOC
Documentary Film and History
ARTS3290
6 UOC
Empires in World History
ARTS3292
6 UOC
Migrants and Refugees in Australian History
ATSI3017
6 UOC
Indigenous Histories and the Colonial World

Level 3 Europe Region Electives

If you select Europe as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3242
6 UOC
Environmental History
ARTS3289
6 UOC
Documentary Film and History
ARTS3290
6 UOC
Empires in World History
ARTS3295
6 UOC
Understanding Nazi Germany: Origins, Structures, Explanation
ARTS3780
6 UOC
Contemporary Germany: History, Politics, Society
ARTS3786
6 UOC
Confronting the Past in Contemporary Europe
ARTS3789
6 UOC
Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Modern Europe

Level 3 The Americas Region Electives

If you select The Americas as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3289
6 UOC
Documentary Film and History
ARTS3290
6 UOC
Empires in World History

Level 3 Women's and Gender Studies Area Electives

If you select Women's and Gender Studies as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3900
6 UOC
Gender and Queer Critiques: Rethinking History and Other Studies

Level 3 Ancient History Area Electives

If you select Ancient History as one of the two regions/areas, you must take at least 6 UOC of the following courses.

ARTS3283
6 UOC
Roman Emperors: From Augustus to Nero

Arts/Education (Secondary) Students

Depending on the type of History teaching specialisation you choose (main or additional), there is a minimum requirement for both Ancient and Modern History courses.- Modern as main teaching specialisation: minimum 6 History – 5 Modern, 1 Ancient- Modern as additional teaching specialisation: minimum 4 History – 3 Modern, 1 … For more content click the Read More button below.

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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

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