Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History

The Graduate Diploma in Local Family and Applied History is designed specifically for students who are interested in the pursuit of local, family and applied history for personal, community or professional reasons. It offers training in, for example, family and local history sources and approaches, heritage conservation, history and museums, monuments and memorials, oral history, and history in film. It also offers an opportunity to pursue professional development through work experience in an applied history area; locates local, family and applied history within broader practices in researching and presenting history; and introduces the wide variety of work opportunities - paid and voluntary - available to professional historians.

Pathways:

The Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History (GDLFAH) provides a good foundation for further study in history through the Master of History and, if 500 level units are included in a GDLFAH programme, they can be credited towards the Master of History.

GDLFAH can also provide a route to a Master of Philosophy degree or PhD.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate advanced knowledge of the development and nature of local, family and applied history as a specific area of historical inquiry and practice;
2. employ various methodologies to pursue historical research and inquiry, including methods of evidence location, evaluation, interpretation and application;
3. apply and communicate the results of historical research effectively in a variety of media and forms, and for different audiences;
4. demonstrate an understanding of the ethical and social responsibilities of local, family and applied historians to the communities with whom they work and to the discipline of history more broadly; and
5. demonstrate of advanced knowledge the ways in which local, family and applied history is practised in community, professional and academic settings.

All domestic students apply through the link below

International students apply direct to UNE through UNE International. This course is only available online (distance education).