History - MA
Master
In Nottingham
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University of Nottingham
Postgraduate Nottinghamshire / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Distance Education Dept. - Islamic College for Adv. Studies
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
Charles Sturt University
Master Online£ 4001-5000 -
University College Falmouth
Master Online£ 8,000 -
University of Dundee
Master Distance Learning£ 7,620 -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of the Highlands and Islands
Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Nottingham
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Duration
1 Year
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Different dates available
MA History combines the coherence and support of a taught MA with the challenges of a research degree. This makes it ideal for those wishing to pursue a historical interest beyond undergraduate level or as a preparation in research skills for those aspiring to PhD study.
Teaching on the course directly reflects the internationally recognised expertise of our staff that includes medieval and early modern British and European history; modern and contemporary history; public history and global history. Case studies include Crusades and Crusaders; Early Modern Religions and Cultures; Race and Lynching; Memory, Genocide, Holocaust; Social History and ‘The Spatial Turn'.
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About this course
The course is structured thematically around the core principles of historical study allowing you to gain the ability to apply this practical structure to your own unique historical interest area.
Teaching on the course directly reflects the world-leading research expertise of our staff that includes; medieval and early modern British and European history; modern and contemporary history; public history; and global history. The course combines the coherence and support of a taught MA with the challenges of a research degree.
Throughout the course you will actively research, interpret, analyse, and write alongside our team of experts. The history team at NTU pride themselves on their accessible, student-centred approach to teaching and are available for one-to-one tutorial support and guidance. To further support your learning throughout the year we run a series of history and heritage workshops delivered by a wide range of visiting experts.
History graduates are highly employable due to their demonstrable versatility developed throughout their experiences. Students can go onto a wide range of careers including archives, marketing, education, law, museums management, planning, and public relations.
Although this course does not offer a formal placement, it is vocationally focused and will help you to develop a broad range of transferable skills.
A UK honours (minimum 2.2) degree in History or a related subject, or equivalent.
Applications from candidates with non-standard entry qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.
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Subjects
- Making History
- Engaging Research
- Research Design
- Strategy
- Design and strategy
- History MA
- History
- Historical evidence
- Demonstrate
- Museums management
- Education
- Marketing
- Public Relations
Course programme
This course is divided into modules, which are worth a number of credit points, and are separately taught and assessed. To get your degree you have to pass all modules to collect 180 credit points.
Making History - Archives (20 credits): You will explore the varied and complex nature of historical evidence as a tool for interpreting the past, whilst also exploring new theories on archives and archival history of new archival forms.
Making History - Relations (20 credits): You will cover the different schools of historical thinking that have engaged with the problem of interpreting social, political, economic and cultural relations over time.
Making History - Space (20 credits): You will reflect on the recent spatial turn in historical studies and how this has influenced the study of space over time. You will also interpret the different forms of space that have been studied by the discipline of history including: individual and social; urban and rural; secular and religious; national, regional and local; imperial and colonial; real and remembered.
Engaging Research - (20 credits): This module focusses on preparing you for your research dissertation. You’ll study research project development, historical methods and the nature and availability of a range of archival sources. By the end of this module you will have determined your research topic and your supervisor.
Active Research - (20 credits): In this module you will gain experience of hands-on historical research practice by choosing to EITHER undertake a History research practice internship OR a History research practice work placement.
Dissertation (60 credits): The dissertation is a 15,000 word piece of independent research. It is an opportunity for you to follow your own interests, demonstrate your strengths and produce a rigorously researched dissertation on a specific subject.
Additional information
History - MA
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University of Nottingham
Postgraduate Nottinghamshire / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Distance Education Dept. - Islamic College for Adv. Studies
Master Distance LearningPrice on request -
Charles Sturt University
Master Online£ 4001-5000 -
University College Falmouth
Master Online£ 8,000 -
University of Dundee
Master Distance Learning£ 7,620 -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of the Highlands and Islands
Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000
See all