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| Old Course Code | Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| HT100 | HIST | 1400 | Europe: 1200-1800 | 2 | Using history to create sense of European identity & separate national identities. Roman inheritance, impact of Christianity, shifting frontiers, impact of Europe on world through religion, culture, economic & political imperialism. |
| HT106 | HIST | 1600 | History of the Future: Critical Issues of the 21st Century | 2 | Picks contemporary problems that confront global village, such as new racism in Europe, environmental concerns, new world order. Placed within historical context. |
| HT108 | HIST | 1100 | South-East Asia: History, Culture, Society | 2 | Early kingdoms, impact of religions, Western intervention & major trends in political development since 1945; Australia's historical relations with Southeast Asia. |
| HT109 | HIST | 1601 | Turning Points in World History | 2 | Major themes, trends, events, ideas, personalities, inventions & discoveries that have shaped modern world. Introduces students to study of history & nature of historical discipline. |
| HT114 | HIST | 1200 | Origins of Australia | 2 | Understanding colonial history of Australia & New Zealand as British settler societies. Indigenous reaction to European incursion, particularly essentially double-sided nature of process of colonisation. |
| HT135 | HIST | 1201 | Australian History | 2 | Feuds & rivalries which shaped Australian patriotism between 1788 & 1994. Another Britannia? A vanished socialist Utopia? Another America? An appendage to Asia? A coming republic? |
| HT151 | HIST | 1000 | The Emergence of Modern America | 2 | Survey of major themes & developments in American history from aftermath of Civil War to present. |
| HT176 | HIST | 1101 | Cultural Traditions of Asia | 2 | Introduces South & Southeast Asian cultural traditions: religion, philosophy, society, polity, art, science. Includes cultural contacts among Asian countries. |
| HT235 | HIST | 2203 | The Ways We Were: Australia's Social History | 2 | Nature of Australian society: poverty & deviance, women, children, family, social ideologies, culture, morality, social conflict & minority movements. |
| HT254 | HIST | 2002 | The American Century: 20th Century American Diplomacy | 2 | Major themes & developments in field of American foreign policy from 18th to 20th century, from American Revolution to Vietnam War. |
| HT299 | HIST | 2701 | Independent Historical Studies Unit | 2 | Refer to Departmental Handbook for details. |
| HT333 | HIST | 3600 | Interpreting History: A Study in the History of Ideas | 2 | History of way different civilisations in different times have interpreted history & understood meaning of passage of time. Concentrates on Western intellectual tradition. |
| HT340 | HIST | 3100 | The Roots of Revolution in Indochina | 2 | Roots of revolution in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos. Differing ideologies of revolution & social & economic transformations fostering revolutionary responses to French colonialism & to United States intervention in region. |
| HT342 | HIST | 3200 | Popular Cultural Studies in Australian History | 2 | Varying themes from year to year: press, popular journals & literature, cartooning, popular stage, film industry, radio, television, popular music & recording, sport, fashion etc. |
| HT344 | HIST | 3400 | The Collapse of the Soviet Empire | 2 | Structural & ideological factors that led to collapse of communism in Eastern Europe during 1980s, along with prospects for regional stability. |
| HT345 | HIST | 3201 | Australian Science, Technology & Environment | 2 | European scientific interest in Australian environment & its influence on contemporary theory; development of an indigenous Australian rural & industrial technology; beginnings of Australian science. |
| HT352 | HIST | 3401 | Studies in Eastern Christendom | 2 | Rise & impact of orthodox Christianity on Byzantium from 330 to 1204, as well as baptism of Russia. Emphasis may vary from year to year. |
| HT355 | HIST | 3101 | Studies in Indonesian History & Society | 2 | Major themes in Indonesian history, with emphasis on social & political transformations of 19th & 20th centuries. |
| HT356 | HIST | 3102 | History of Chinese Business & Economy | 2 | Development of business organisations of Chinese economy in late imperial & modern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan & overseas Chinese communities. |
| HT357 | HIST | 3601 | The Nuclear Age | 2 | Impact of discovery of nuclear fission on politics, foreign policy of great powers &, to lesser extent, British Commonwealth nations of Canada, Australia & New Zealand. |
| HT361 | HIST | 3602 | Genocide & Persecution, Revenge & Reconciliation | 2 | Ideological, cultural, social & economic causes of different forms of intense persecution, including genocide; moral dimensions of revenge, reparations, compensation, apology, reconciliation, amnesty & amnesia throughout the modern world. |
| HT362 | HIST | 3603 | Papua New Guinea: Knowing the Unknown | 2 | Papua New Guinea is Australia's closest neighbour & ex-colony. Subject begins with ancient New Guinea before first European contact in 16th century, examines 1884-1975 colonial era & charts last quarter as an independent nation. |
| HT363 | HIST | 3402 | The Radical Right & Fascism in Europe | 2 | Examines new mass-based right-wing politics in Europe since 1880s; rise of Fascist movements in Italy, Germany, France & Eastern Europe; Spanish Civil War; Fascist & Nazi regimes: European radical right today. |
| HT412 | HIST | 6400 | Dark Ages Studies | 2 | History of Europe & Mediterranean world from 5th to 9th centuries. |
| HT416 | HIST | 6000 | American History: The Civil War Era | 2 | Major themes & selected issues in Civil War era. |
| HT419 | HIST | 6200 | The Natural Environment & Queensland | 2 | Relations between people & natural environment drawing upon Queensland case studies. |
| HT420 | HIST | 6201 | Heritage of the Built Environment | 2 | Theory & practice relating to heritage buildings, structures & sites, including philosophy, history, legislation, management, assessment & publication, especially Queensland in context of Australia & abroad. |
| HT421 | HIST | 6202 | War & Society in Twentieth Century Australia | 2 | Examines important domestic themes related to Australian involvement in a range of international conflicts. |
| HT428 | HIST | 6602 | Applied History | 2 | Overview, applications & case studies, including varieties (public, popular, local, environment history & museology); categories of sources; major repositories; means of analysis & presentation; professional issues (role, ethics, employment, status). |
| HT429 | HIST | 6603 | Museology in Theory & Practice | 2 | Museums & museology for graduates of history or related disciplines, including curation of historical collections & their deployment for research & display. Includes practical work. |
| HT431 | HIST | 6604 | The Cold War | 2 | Major international crises & events affecting relations among superpowers & their allies (including Australia) since end of World War II. |
| HT432 | HIST | 6100 | Modern Chinese History: Sources & Methodology | 2 | Introduction to variety of modern Chinese historical sources & archives. Examines critically Western scholarship on Modern China. |
| HT434 | HIST | 6605 | Community History | 2 | Theory, practice & case studies, including guided reading, archival workshops, own-choice project on some region, town locality, individual, family, institution, business, association or theme etc. in community context. |
| HT439 | HIST | 6606 | Nationalism in History | 2 | Nationalism, its ancient roots, modern causes & contemporary forms, especially Asia & Europe. |
| HT441 | HIST | 6600 | History & Theory | 2 | How historians organise historical data & how objectivity, causation & explanation enter into historical narratives. |
| HT442 | HIST | 6601 | Historians at Work: Studies in Historiography | 2 | Major historians influencing the discipline. Their historiographical goals & assumptions examined in detail. |
| HT444 | HIST | 6607 | Themes in Popular Cultural History | 2 | Exploratory primary research into aspects of popular culture, particularly of United States. Theoretical & historiography issues also explored. |
| HT447 | HIST | 6700 | Thesis (Honours) | 8 | For details see Department Postgraduate Handbook. Students commencing course in Semester 1 enrol in HIST6700; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in HST6701. |
| HT447 | HIST | 6701 | Thesis (Honours) | 8 | For details see Department Postgraduate Handbook. Students commencing course in Semester 1 enrol in HIST6700; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in HST6701. |
| HT447 (P/T - 4 sem) | HIST | 6702 | Thesis (Honours) (Part-time) | 8 | For details see Department Postgraduate Handbook. Thesis for part-time students, completed over four semesters. May commence 2nd semester |
| HT449 | HIST | 6401 | European Thought in the Age of Modernism | 2 | Examines formative intellectual movements in age of modernism & modernity, 1880s to circa 1930. Major writers & thinkers, including Nietzsche, Freud, Bergson, Lenin & Weber, will be analysed in their social & political context. |
| HT450 | HIST | 6608 | Readings in the History of Psychiatry | 2 | Examines development of psychiatry from early modern period through to present. Informed by a social history of medicine perspective, but will also examine writings of some key psychiatric theorists. |
| HT481 | HIST | 6610 | Independent Study A | 2 | Reading & research to be negotiated with Head of Department. |
| HT482 | HIST | 6611 | Independent Study B | 2 | Reading & research to be negotiated with Head of Department. |
| HT700 | HIST | 7600 | Macrohistory & Macronarrative | 2 | History of way different civilisations in different times have interpreted history & understood meaning of passage of time. Concentrates on Western intellectual tradition. |
| HT701 | HIST | 7100 | War & Revolution in Indochina | 2 | Roots of revolution in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos. Differing ideologies of revolution & social & economic transformations fostering revolutionary response to French colonialism & to United States intervention in region. |
| HT702 | HIST | 7200 | Everyday Wonders: Studies in Australian Popular Culture | 2 | Varying themes from year to year; press, popular journals & literature, cartooning, popular stage, film industry, radio, television, popular music & recording, sport, fashion, etc. |
| HT703 | HIST | 7402 | Soviet Imperialism in Eastern Europe: Its Rise & Fall | 2 | Structural & ideological factors that led to collapse of communism in Eastern Europe during 1980s, along with prospects for regional stability. |
| HT704 | HIST | 7201 | Aspects of Science in Colonial Australia | 2 | European scientific interest in Australian environment & its influence on contemporary theory, development of an indigenous Australian rural & industrial technology, beginning of Australian science. |
| HT705 | HIST | 7403 | Religion in the Byzantine Empire | 2 | Rise & impact of orthodox Christianity on Byzantium from 330 to 1204, as well as baptism of Russia. Emphasis may vary from year to year. |
| HT708 | HIST | 7000 | The History of the Nuclear Age | 2 | Impact of discovery of nuclear fission on politics, foreign policy of great powers &, to lesser extent, British Commonwealth nations of Canada, Australia & New Zealand. |
| HT709 | HIST | 7603 | Special Studies in History | 2 | One semester study program developed by individual students in area of choice, supervised & assessed by a member of staff. Students must contact lecturer concerned & gain approval for project; detail format & present in writing to Head of Department. |
| HT809 | HIST | 7800 | Problems in History | 4 | One semester study program developed by individual students in an area of choice, supervised & assessed by memebr of staff. Students must contact lecturer concerned & gain approval for project; detail format & present in writing to Head of Department. |
| HT812 | HIST | 7801 | Thesis | 8 | Maximum of 20,000 words to be written on topic chosen by student. Students must contact the lecturer concerned & gain approval for the project; map out in some detail the format of the project; & present program in writing to the Head of the Department. |
| HT812 | HIST | 7802 | Thesis | 8 | Maximum of 20,000 words to be written on topic chosen by student. Students must contact the lecturer concerned & gain approval for the project; map out in some detail the format of the project; & present program in writing to the Head of the Department. |