Global History: Empires, States And Cultures (Ma)
Master
In London
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Taught by experts in African, Asian, Atlantic, European and Middle Eastern histories, societies and cultures, our MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures will expand and deepen your understanding of world history through the exploration of global perspectives and interconnections across geographical and national boundaries.
The course will introduce you to a wide range of themes in global history, including:
empires
nations
decolonisation
migration and diaspora
economies and commerce
environmental history
the transnational history of ideas.
You will be encouraged to think expansively about connections between different approaches to global history and to undertake specialised research into particular regions of the world, such as South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the USA.
The compulsory module explores specific topics and challenges in writing global history. You then choose three option modules from a wide variety offered by the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology and other departments at Birkbeck, opting, if you wish, to take a focused pathway through the degree by specialising in the history of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or the imperial and postcolonial periods.
Throughout the degree, you will be encouraged to develop both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the historical development of globalisation, as well as learning research methods and accessing primary sources that will enable you to specialise in a topic of your choosing and write a dissertation.
The course offers you training to continue on to PhD research, if you wish, but it will also equip you with specialist knowledge and transferable skills for a wide range of careers, including policy research, media, NGOs and public history.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in research and archiving, education, the heritage industry, publication and the media, the charity sector, and journalism. Possible professions include historian, higher education lecturer, or archivist. This degree provides a range of transferable skills, which may be useful in becoming a journalist, heritage manager, politician’s assistant, academic librarian, or museum/gallery curator.
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 and references.
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.
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Subjects
- Healing
- Public
- Conflict
- Politics
- Archaeology
- Teaching
- Classics
- International
- Global
- Asian History
- World History
- Islam
Course programme
You study one compulsory module and three option modules on a diverse range of topics.
Not all modules are available every year.
COMPULSORY MODULE
- Mastering Historical Research: Birkbeck Approaches
- Africa Imagined: Visions of a Continent, 1600-2000
- An Empire of Knowledge: Science, Colonialism and Nationalism in British India
- Arab-Israeli Question
- Battleground Spain, 1936-1939
- Britain and Germany: The History of a Relationship, 1815-1990
- China and the West: Encounters
- 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
- Empires in Modern East Asia
- Healing, Health and Modernity in African History
- Imagined Landscapes of the Middle Ages
- Immigration and Society since 1945
- Internationalism and International Organisations in twentieth-century Europe
- Jews and Antisemitism in Modern Europe: Histories and Approaches
- Literature and Modern Chinese Nationalism
- London and Berlin in the Age of Empire
- Mapping the Middle Ages, from Ptolemy to Planoudes (c. 150-1500)
- Money and Empire c. 300-c. 800
- Out of Ashes: Europe, 1945 to the 1960s
- Politics and Islam
- Post-Colonial Discourse and the Novel
- Public Histories in Practice
- Repertoires of Resistance: Protest and Rebellion from the Russian Revolution to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
- Rethinking the Cold War
- The Modern Mediterranean: From Colonial Sea to Environmental Crisis?
- The Politics of the Past: Heritage in a Changing World
- The Silk Road: Imagining Global Cultures from the Middle Ages to UNESCO and BRI
- Research Dissertation
Additional information
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
Global History: Empires, States And Cultures (Ma)