Tara completed her Bachelor of Arts in the History Department at the University of Western Australia. She was also admitted to the fourth honours year in the Department and gained a First.
She completed the following courses:
First year
English 120
English 130
History 102
Visual Arts 100
Second year
English 230
History 222
History 244
Third Year
History 329
History 339
Honours Preliminary Courses (Historiography and Old Worlds in New Australia)
Fourth Year
Honours coursework (Fin de Siecle Europe and Victorian Britain)
and
Dissertation:
World War Two continued by other means? The Goon Show and the long Second World War