History MA

Students will be introduced to key historical concepts and theories. The core course offers a forum for such debates, and also provides students with the technical and intellectual apparatus to pursue their own research interests under expert guidance.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (30 credits), between two and four optional modules (60 credits) and a research dissertation (90 credits).

• History Dissertation
• Advanced Skills, Concepts and Theory for MA Historians

Optional modules will be finalised in Spring 2018. Please contact the department for more information. The following optional modules were available in 2017/18 and this is an indicative list only:

• Weber for Historians
• American History on Film
• Continental Connections: Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth Century
• Hollywood Genres
• Britain and Decolonization since 1945
• Public History, Slavery, and the British Colonial Past
• Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain, c. 1850 to the present
• Enlightenment Histories: History and Time in Eighteenth Century Thought and Culture
• The Ottoman Mediterranean: Reform and Integration, 1800-1914
• Paradoxes of Enlightenment
• Latin America in Global Intellectual History
• Theories of Totalitarianism
• Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Twentieth Century British History: Ideologies, Identities, Cultures, Controversies
• Pornography, Obscenity and Politics in Europe since 1789
• Crisis and Future in Nineteenth Century European Thought
• Students may also be able to select modules from the Ancient History or Medieval and Renaissance Studies curricula, and from other departments in UCL

All students undertake an independent research project on a topic in History, which culminates in a dissertation of up to 15,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials. Some sessions will take place outside UCL in institutions such as the British Library, the National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Students are assessed through written coursework, examination, and the dissertation.