History MA
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Winchester
The programme offers introductory elements which explore historical methods and research skills, in-depth topic-based modules and the opportunity to devise and develop a specialist dissertation.The Approaches to the Past Module, which runs in the first semester for all new students, provides guidance on the different approaches to the study of history, including geographical scales of study and disciplinary approaches.Research training for the dissertation is provided in a specialist module through a blend of electronic learning and face-to-face contact, which helps the students through a range of research tasks associated with the development of the dissertation. This leads to a Day Conference (Independent Study Presentation), in which students showcase their dissertation plans and their development, and debate themes in the study of history with external speakers.During the final summer of studies students complete a 20,000 word dissertation, with specialist supervision
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Students attend lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, a day conference and excursions. The teaching team is made up of highly respected and experienced researchers.Programme Leader Dr Xavier Guégan
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- Presentation
Course programme
Core modules:
- Approaches to the Past
- Research Methods and Skills
- Independent Study Presentation
- Dissertation
Three Special Study modules from a list of options (please note that not all the Special Study modules will run every year):
- Anglo-Saxon Wessex
- Religion and Society: the Secular Church of Late Medieval Wessex
- The Rulers of the Late Medieval
- English Provinces
- Hampshire and Sussex c.1660-c.1830
- Religion in England c.1660-c.1830
- Poverty in the South of England 1770-1870
- Sport and Leisure in Victorian Britain
- Normandy c.900-1204
- Reading and Writing the Holocaust:Historiography, Memory and
- Representation, 1945 to the Present
- Approaches to the Study of Women and Gender
- The 'Good War': the United States and WWII
- Public Health and Medicine in Modern
- Japan 1868-1952
- The 'Fifteen-year War' and Public Memory in Post-war Japan
- Consumption in Communist Europe
- Soviet History through Film
- Medicine and Society in Southern England 1550-1700
- The Age of Jackson
- The Organisation and Representation of Colonial Violence
- The Culture of Defeat
- Late Medieval Government
- Late Medieval Demography
- Roman Imperialism 327-30 BC
- Tudor Rebellions
- 'Women Worthies': The Study of Famous Females from Boccaccio to the Present
- Female Agency and Rule in the Premodern Mediterranean 700-1700
- Documenting the Local Past
- Transnational Ideologies in Action: Liberalism, Socialism and Anarchism
- Genocide Memory and Representation
- The Limits to Growth? Past and Present Approaches to Environmental Change
- Church, Society, and Conflict in the Medieval West c.1000-c.1150
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
- Thatcher's Britain
- Ordinary Life - Work and Play in the Roman World
- The Lives of Greek and Roman Poets
History MA