MA in Historical Research

HSTT15 (FT), HSTT16 (PT)

Course Structure


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The MA in Historical Research provides an excellent preparation for students intending to proceed to research degrees in History. As well as specific research training in history, you will also gain a broad range of transferable skills that will be of value to employers outside academia. The combination of compulsory and optional modules allows you to further your own interests, broaden your field of knowledge and, at the same time, hone the research skills needed for the dissertation.

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All students on the MA in Historical Research take the `PhD Proposal´ module which prepares you for PhD study and enhances your chances of obtaining AHRC funding. You will also take the `Research Presentation´ module which provides an opportunity for students to deliver papers at a day-conference the Department runs for MA students towards the end of each academic year. Depending on your experience of independent research to date you might find it useful to take `Research Skills for Historians´ which runs in the opening weeks of the year and provides the skills and methods necessary for advanced historical study. As well as developing generic research skills, you will explore a particular period of history through a team-taught core module, choosing from a range that currently includes: Approaching the Middle Ages; Early Modernities; Approaches to the American Past; Approaches to International History; and Modernity and Power: Individuals and the State in the Modern World. The core module deepens your understanding of historical context, historiography, and source criticism in your chosen area of study.

You will then choose from a range of optional modules that allow you to examine particular periods and themes, such as The Transformation of the Roman World, Arguments about Eighteenth-Century Crime or The Scramble for Africa. You may also use the optional slots to acquire additional skills such as Latin, modern languages or palaeography.




Course Structure

 
Credits (Semester)
Core
 HST6027: PhD Proposal 15 (1)
Students will take all 3 Core modules
  HST6560: Dissertation 60 (1+2)
  HST6802: Research Presentation 15 (2)
       
     
Students must take a total of 90 credits from these sections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Approaches
 HST656: Approaches to the American Past 45 (1)
(choose 1 only) HST657: Approaches to International History 45 (1)
  HST658: Approaching the Middle Ages 45 (1)
  HST665: Modernity & Power: Individuals & The Sate In The Modern World 45 (1)
  HST6059: Early Modernities 45 (1)
     
     
Options
 HST674: International Relations and the Early Cold War 15 (1)
HST676: Ways of Seeing: Art, History and the Renaissance 15 (2)
  HST677: Modernity & The Self: Negotiating Identites with the Soviet State 15 (1)
  HST679: Colonialism On Film 15 (2)
  HST680: Media and Political Culture in Modern Britain 15 (1)
  HST681: Work Placement 15 (1+2)
  HST689: Voices of the Great War: Violence and Expriences in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-19 15 (2)
  HST694: Revolutionary England, 1640-60: Politics, Culture & Society 15 (2)
  HST695: African Nationalism 15 (1)
  HST696: Jacksonian America, 1828-1846 15 (1)
  HST697: Order and Disorder around the year 1000 15 (2)
  HST698: The Phoenix City: Rome in Late Antiquity (300-600) 15 (1)
  HST699: The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 15 (2)
  HST6003: The Fin-de-Siecle 30 (2)
  HST6031: The Dawn of Modernity in the Late Middle Ages 15 (2)
  HST6032: Reading Italian for Historical Research 15 (2)
  HST6038: Framing the Past The Eighteenth-Century on Film 15 (2)
  HST6101: Mass violence in the Balkans, 1912-1995 15 (2)
  HST6801: Research Skills for Historians 15 (1)
  HST6842: The Transformation of the Roman World 15 (2)
  HST6850: Palaeography 15 (1)
  HST6854: Arguing about Eighteenth-Century Crime 15 (1)
  HST6870: Life Stories: Men and Women in War and Revolution, 1917-49 15 (1)
  HST6886: Eighteenth-Century British American Colonies 15 (2)
  HST6887: Discovering Rural England 15 (2)
  HST6892: The Scramble for Africa 15 (2)
  HST6896: Nehru and India 15 (1)
  MLT6014: Beginners Latin A 15 (1)
  MLT6015: Beginners Latin B 15 (2)
   
Credit Total: 180



In line with our policy for continuous improvement, courses within the Department are continually being reviewed. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information above but the University can not accept any responsibility for any errors or omissions.


26 February 10