This popular MA programme focuses on the period c1500-2000, and draws on the considerable range of expertise within the School to offer a broad selection of modules, allowing you to tailor your programme to your interests.

You learn from academics regarded as experts in their fields and research areas. You develop your capacity to think critically about past events, approach primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives and strive to understand the complex issues surrounding context and significance. In addition, you engage with the wider historiography and discourse associated with your studies, understanding the structure and nature of cultural, political and social forces in the modern period.

Course content

• Methods and Interpretations in Historical Research
• At least one subject option from: Britain and the Modern World; The British Army and the Great War; Cities at War; The Early Modern Town: Canterbury, an International City; From Wounded Knee to the Little Bighorn Casino; Geiger Counter at Ground Zero; The Global History of Capitalism; History of Science; The Image of France in English Culture, c1500-1620; No End of a Lesson: Britain and the Boer War; Religion and Society in 17th-century England; Science, Ethics and Controversy; The Vietnam War; Visualising Science; War Propaganda and the Media; Word and Image; Zara Steiner: An Historian Examines History (all subject to student recruitment and tutor availability).
• Dissertation of 18-20,000 words

Assessment

All courses are assessed by coursework, and the dissertation counts for half the final grade (comprising one third assessed preparation, two thirds actual dissertation).

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