Historical Research MA
Master
In Sheffield
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Sheffield
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
Different dates available
This course is excellent preparation for a PhD degree in history. You can further your interests, broaden your knowledge and at the same time hone your research skills. As well as specific research training in history, you’ll also gain a broad range of transferable skills that will be of value to employers outside academia.
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About this course
A first-class BA honours degree or equivalent in history or other humanities or social science discipline.
You may be asked to supply examples of previous written work.
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Subjects
- PhD degree in history
- History
- History and Identity
- Palaeography
- Directed Reading
- Modern Languages
- Digital Age
- Language
- Human Rights
- Language and Society
Course programme
Core modules
- Dissertation
- Research Presentation
A choice of research skills modules including:
- Research Skills for Historians
- Directed Reading
- Palaeography
- Latin and modern languages
- Early Medieval Clerical Exemption in a Digital Age
- Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Language and Society in Early Modern England
- Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century
- Stories of Activism, 1960 to the present
- The Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1895–1945
- Human Rights in History
- The United States and the Global 1970s
You’ll be taught through seminars and individual tutorials.
AssessmentAssessment is by bibliographical and source-based exercises, written papers, oral presentation, and a 15,000-word dissertation.
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Historical Research MA