European History (Ma)

Birkbeck, University of London

Master

In London

£ 8,820 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

Our MA European History offers you the chance to study at a department with world-renowned expertise in European history, including British, German, French, Italian, Balkan, Russian and Eastern European history, as well as international, transnational, global and comparative historical perspectives.

The programme brings together these different fields and develops new approaches to the history of Europe from the early modern period to the present day. It provides you with an appreciation of key debates that have shaped our understanding of Europe and the most important historical and methodological approaches to critically interpreting the European past. Rather than presuppose one all-encompassing definition of 'Europe', whether geographical, ideological or otherwise, the course highlights the different contexts within which the European past and present can be analysed.

Alongside a wide range of option modules covering many aspects of European history and politics from the early modern period to the Cold War, you will also receive training in research methods and undertake your own dissertation, which makes this programme an excellent entry point for more advanced study at either MPhil/PhD level or professionally.

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course





Entry requirements


Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification.
We will review every postgraduate application to Birkbeck on its individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.
On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.
Apply now to secure your place and allow enough time for the application and enrolment process.
You do not need to have completed your current qualification to start your application.







Course specific entry requirements


We offer a one-year Graduate Certificate in History, which can be used as a conversion course if you want to study history at postgraduate level, but have a degree in a significantly different discipline.
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this course is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests and at least 7.0 in writing.





ses of more than six months'...

Graduates go in to careers in education, the Civil Service, research and journalism, archiving and libraries. Possible professions include teacher, Civil Service fast streamer, researcher, journalist, or archivist. This degree may also be useful in becoming a museum education officer, museum curator, editorial assistant, or politician’s assistant.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

A second-class honours degree (2:2 or above).

We offer a one-year Graduate Certificate in History, which can be used as a conversion course if you want to study history at postgraduate level, but have a degree in a significantly different discipline.

Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively.

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Subjects

  • Communication Training
  • Conflict
  • Politics
  • Staff
  • European History
  • International
  • Professor Training
  • Historical
  • Approaches
  • Germany

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

You take one compulsory module and choose three option modules on a diverse range of topics.

Not all modules are available every year.

COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Mastering Historical Research: Birkbeck Approaches
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • A Continent on the Move: Migration in Europe, 1919 to 2019
  • Africa Imagined: Visions of a Continent, 1600-2000
  • Auschwitz in History and Memory
  • Battleground Spain, 1936-1939
  • Britain and Germany: The History of a Relationship, 1815-1990
  • Civil Society: Ideas, Practices and Dilemmas in the Modern World, 17th Century to the Present
  • Contested Past, Troubled Present: Britain and Ireland since 1800 - Religion in Society and Politics
  • Cultural History of War in Britain and America between the First World War and the Conflict in Vietnam
  • Darwin, Darwinism and the Modern Ages
  • Death, Disease and Early Modern City
  • Early Modern London: Society and Culture
  • Fascism and Psychoanalysis
  • Gender in Britain
  • Globalisation and the Rise of the Modern Consumer
  • Imagined Landscapes of the Middle Ages
  • Internationalism and International Organisations in twentieth-century Europe
  • Italy and the "New" European Right, 1945-present
  • Jews and Antisemitism in Modern Europe: Histories and Approaches
  • London and Berlin in the Age of Empire
  • Mapping the Middle Ages, from Ptolemy to Planoudes (c. 150-1500)
  • Me, Myself and I: Identity and the Self in Europe, c. 1500-c.1750
  • Modern Europe and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, Blacks
  • Monastic Lives in Medieval England
  • Money and Empire c. 300-c. 800
  • Opposition and Dissent in Early Modern France
  • Out of Ashes: Europe, 1945 to the 1960s
  • Plots, Conspiracy Theory and Political Culture in Early Modern Britain and France
  • Power and Communication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1400-1800)
  • Practitioners and Patients in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
  • Race and the Victorians
  • Reconstruction of Europe 1943-1956
  • Renaissance Florence: Society, Religion and Culture
  • Rethinking the Cold War
  • Technology, Modernity and the Nation: Britain and Germany, 1880 to 1930
  • The Global Soviet Union, 1917-1991
  • The Making of Modern Societies: Britain and Europe, c.1500-c.1750
  • The Nazi Capture of Power
  • The Two Irelands 1911-1998
  • The Victorian Communication Revolution
  • To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistories
  • Venice and Istanbul, 1453-1797
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

Duration
One year full-time or two years part-time

FEES
Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa

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European History (Ma)

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