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Handbook of Postgraduate Studies – 2004MHPG844 History, Culture and MuseumStudies4 pg cpThe first part of this unit focuses on the location and useof original materials and on the skills necessary for thewriting of history. In the second part sources are used toconsider the strengths and weaknesses of accessing pictures,landscape, maps, archaeology, archives, and otherevidence. Special emphasis will be placed on materialevidence and on the museum as educator.MHPG847 Rewriting History4 pg cpThis unit surveys recent acrimonious debates fromaround the world and explores the historiographical andsocial implications of revisionism. Topics examined willinclude the Holocaust, Afrocentrism and the classicalworld, “Black Armband” Australian history, and Irishhistory.MHPG848 An Introduction to ModernHistoriography4 pg cpAn introduction to views of the nature, boundaries andpurpose of “history” since the beginning of the nineteenthcentury. Topics explored include empiricism, universalhistories, objectivity and truth, gender, changingunderstanding of subject matter and evidence, post-colonialismand post- modernism.MHPG888 Minor Research Project A4 pg cpPrerequisite: usually completion of 4 half-year units (16pg credit points) with an average grade of credit.A minor thesis of 7,500–10,000 words.Guidelines for thesis preparation and presentation are thesame as those for Honours theses. Candidates intendingto take this unit MUST consult with Associate ProfessorMichael Roberts and with a potential thesis supervisor.Unit availability subject to suitable supervision arrangements.MHPG889 Minor Research Project B4 pg cpPrerequisite: usually completion of 4 half-year units (16pg credit points) with an average grade of credit.A minor thesis of 7,500–10,000 words.Guidelines for thesis preparation and presentation are thesame as those for Honours theses. Candidates intendingto take this unit MUST consult with Associate ProfessorMichael Roberts and with a potential thesis supervisor.Unit availability subject to suitable supervision arrangements.280MHPG892 Modern History Minor ResearchProject8 pg cpPrerequisite: usually completion of 4 half-year units (16pg credit points) with an average grade of credit usuallycompleted over 2 semesters. Students enrolling in midyearshould enrol in MHPG888 and then in MHPG899 tocomplete the same program.A minor thesis of 15,000–20,000 words.Guidelines for thesis preparation and presentation are thesame as those for Honours theses. Candidates intendingto take this unit MUST consult with Associate ProfessorMichael Roberts and with a potential thesis supervisor.Unit availability subject to suitable supervision arrangements.MHPG903 Famine in the Modern World4 pg cpThis unit will explore the problem of famine and thenature of famine in general by focusing on three majorareas in Modern World History, Ireland 1845–1850,USSR 1932–1933, Bengal 1943.One of the key ideas is that of Amartya Sen viz the notionof “entitlements”, that modern famines reflect a breakdownin a moral order, the system that determines whohas the right to what food, and in what quantities, as wellas breakdowns in the production and distribution of food.MHPG905 Victorian Religion in Britainand Abroad4 pg cpThis unit explores the question “Why was religion andreligious observance so important to men and women inthe Victorian era?” The role of religious revival will beexamined, together with religion and social class, secularismand the churches, the changing relationship ofchurch and state and the part played by the churches inBritain’s expanding empire, with particular reference toAustralia, New Zealand and the Pacific.MHPG907 Religion, Crisis and the State4 pg cpThis unit offers an alternative history of religion, byexploring the state religions of both the pagan world andthe Christian West (especiallay Italy and Tudor England).It shows how, ie, by what devotional means, the statemaintained that crucial relationship with the all-powerfulgod(s), who were its guardians and how it placated thegods, whose anger, (provoked by sin, disobedience orother offence) was believed to cause the great disasters,famine, earthquakes, pestilence, and war.MHPG910 The American Civil War: TheBeginnings of the Total War4 pg cpThis unit is a study of the first modern war. It concentrateson the experiences of common soldiers and tries todetermine why they fought and died. It employs themethodology of “history from below”.