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History PGT Course Specification and Syllabi

Below are the course specifications and syllabi for all of the Taught Postgraduate qualifications offered by the History Department.

Taught Postgraduate students are governed by the University's Rules for Award, which set out degree conventions and award and progression requirements.

  • MA History
  • MA History (Medicine, Science and Technology)
  • MA History (Early Modern)
  • MA History (Global and Comparative)
  • MA History (Modern)

Award Title: Master of Arts

Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Credits: 180 CATS

Course Details

The 桃色视频 History Taught MA offers advanced study in history. You will investigate historical change within a broad conceptual and theoretical framework, with an opportunity to explore dynamic global developments from the early modern period to the present. The University of 桃色视频's History department, whose research activity is ranked one of the highest in the country (92%, REF 2021), will provide you with the guidance to acquire conceptual and practical skills and expertise in this field. This course will particularly appeal to those who wish to conduct further research in history.

Our MA programme allows you the opportunity to both specialise and diversify, to follow your passion and to try something new. You will be taught by experts in their field, introducing you to their areas of research and what it is to be a historian. You will have the opportunity to study and write about what really enthuses you, and to pursue in-depth research on your chosen dissertation topic. Optional modules will offer a chronological, geographical, and thematic range of topics, including in modern history, early modern history, global history, and the history of medicine. You鈥檒l be able to take advantage of the Department's field-leading research centres, including participating in the lively schedule of academic research seminars, lectures and conferences.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able:

  • to demonstrate an advanced understanding of theoretical, interdisciplinary and historiographical approaches at the forefront of the discipline of [history; modern history; early modern history; global and comparative history, or the history of medicine, science and technology];
  • to demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and mastery of techniques relevant to history;
  • to exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities in history;
  • to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
  • to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
  • proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these;
  • critically and creatively to evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline.

Transferable (Key) Skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

  • the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
  • evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
  • self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
  • independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
  • critically to engage in the development of disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

  • evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline of history;
  • demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
  • drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
  • evaluating and criticising received opinion;
  • make reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data;
  • writing extended pieces based on original research

Syllabus

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