History

The undergraduate history major at Curtin focuses on Australia and Asia, but the expertise of our staff enables us to offer honours and graduate supervision on a wide range of topics.

Our aim is to train historians in the understanding and interpretation of history. As well as gaining expert historical knowledge of societies in Australia and Asia, and a greater understanding of current world events, you will learn to write essays, papers, chapters, reports, reviews; to undertake original research and critical analysis; develop and structure an argument or thesis, and detect and analyse forms of bias in sources. These skills will equip you for careers including: research, public policy, secondary and tertiary level teaching, cultural heritage and museums. History may be taken as a single major, combined with one of a range of other majors for a double-major degree, studied as part of a double degree, or followed with a professional diploma.

• Our Undergraduate Program
• Honours
• Postgraduate
• Our Team
• Publications

Our Undergraduate Program

2010

Semester 1	Semester 2
Legacies of Empire 111	Australia and Asia Transformed 112
Democracy and Dictatorship 211	Australia: An Alternative History 212
Religion, Conflict & Terror in South & West Asia 223	Contested Knowledges: Truth, Lies and Memories 221
Provocative Histories 311	Interpreting Histories 312

2011

Semester 1	Semester 2
Legacies of Empire 111	Australia and Asia Transformed 112
Democracy and Dictatorship 211	Australia: An Alternative History 212
Australians at War 222	Islam in Contemporary Asia 225
Provocative Histories 311	Interpreting Histories 312

Honours

We welcome enquiries from students at second or third year level, who have a Course Weighted Average of 65 or above. For details of requirements and entry to the Honours program, please see: Social Sciences Honours Information

Postgraduate

We welcome enquires from students planning to undertake a Higher Degree by Research at Masters or Doctoral level. For details of requirements and entry to the Higher Degree by Research program, please see: Humanities Graduate Studies Office

Our Team

Bobbie Oliver, Sheila McHale (Minister for Culture and the Arts in the Carpenter Government), and Patrick Bertola receiving the WA Premier's Award for Western Australian History

Curtin historians have extensive teaching and research experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Australia; Western Australia; East, South-East, South and Western Asia; South Africa; Europe; the British Empire; labour history; historiography; life writing; oral history and memory. We offer a cross-disciplinary approach, with many of our units being shared with International Relations, Asian Studies and Anthropology/Sociology.

Bobbie Oliver
Maureen Perkins
Joan Wardrop
Yasuo Takao
Ian Chalmers

Publications

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