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MA History

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MA Full-time: 12 months Part-time: 24 months

Course Description

Are you fascinated by history? Do you want to understand more about the way people lived, worked and thought in the past? Our expert staff will support you to explore those very questions, whilst developing your own historical research into an area of your choice.

You can tailor your studies through optional modules spanning the 7th century BCE to the modern day, and covering a wide geographical range including Britain, India, Japan, Portugal, and the USA.

Entry Requirements

2:1 in History or related subject.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

During this course you will develop skills in data analysis, presentation, communication, teamwork, negotiation, and time management.

As a result, our graduates have built careers in a diverse range of industries, including:

  • planning and policy
  • law
  • communications,  media and journalism
  • archives and museums
  • teaching
  • libraries and museums

You will also have the necessary skills to begin doctoral research and work towards a PhD, if desired.

Module Details

Core Modules

  • Research Methods in History
  • Arts in Society
  • Dissertation

Option Modules

Autumn semester – choose one from the following group.

  • Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern Europe
  • Past Futures: Britain and the West After 1945
  • Power and Authority: Sources for Medieval History

Spring semester – You will usually choose two modules from this group.

We offer the flexibility to replace one module with one from outside the Department of History if that suits your interests more.

  • Memory and Social Change in Modern Europe and Beyond
  • Exploring English Identity
  • (Mis)Perceptions of the Other: From Savages and Barbarians to the Exotic and Erotic
  • Daily Life in Authoritarian Régimes in the Long Twentieth Century
  • Latin For Medievalists
  • Palaeography

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