Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc: 12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time
PgDip: 9 months full-time; 18 months part‑time
This Masters offers courses across all periods from medieval to late modern, focusing on Scotland, Britain, Europe and America with increasing global perspective. You’ll study historical skills and methods and produce a research dissertation based on primary sources. Our excellent research directs our postgraduate teaching so you'll explore cutting-edge topics with leading experts in their fields.
2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in any subject.
A 2.2 Honours degree will be considered where supported by relevant experience. Substantial, directly relevant experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications.
The research skills and methods you’ll gain on this programme give you the transferable skills for positions in the public and private sectors, including heritage policy and projects, media and teaching. The programme is also a good foundation for a PhD.
Semester 1
Core course:
Doing History: Sources and Skills for Historians
Optional Courses:
Issues, Ideologies And Institutions Of Modern Scotland
The Global History of Inequalities
Resistance to Slavery from 1700 to 1900
Crusading Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1096-1291
A 'New Form of Slavery'?: Indentured Labour in Post-Slavery Caribbean Societies, c. 1836-1917
Semester 2
Optional Courses:
Scottish Radicalism 1848-1950
Medieval Palaeography: An Introduction to Reading Medieval Documents
Military Scotland in the Age of Proto-globalization, c.1600-c.1800
Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Political Violence
How Wars End
Games and Gaming History
Summer:
Dissertation (MSc History)
A history of securing bright futures. The University of Glasgow established in 1451 is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world, and...
