History MA (Hons)
Master
In Dundee
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Dundee (Scotland)
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Duration
4 Years
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Start date
September
If you wish to specialise, you can select Scottish Historical Studies, or cover a wider range of topics on our History degree. Whichever course you choose, you'll benefit from interaction with experts who are at the forefront of their field.
At Dundee we believe in research-led teaching. That is to say, our lecturers,are internationally-recognised experts in their fields who create modules around their areas of interest or the historical problems on which they are working. We regularly update our curriculum to reflect cutting-edge research.
You will be joining a dynamic and friendly environment, and we offer a broad training which will benefit you in your later career, whatever that might be.
History at Dundee is both rigorous and enjoyable. Our teaching staff are all highly committed to ensuring that you achieve your full potential as a historian.
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If you have a curiosity about the past, an enquiring and analytical mind, a desire to form your own independent judgements and enjoy a lively and academically rigorous debate, History is for you.
BBBB (minimum) - AABB (typical) at Higher.
BCC (minimum) - BBB (typical) at A-Level.
A relevant BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma with DDM 30 points at Higher Level grades 5, 5, 5.
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Subjects
- Teaching
- Empires
- Human Futures
- Revolution
- Globalizing
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- Wider World
- Scotland
- América
- Decolonisation
- Imperialism
Course programme
A total of 6 modules, two of which typically include:
Semester 1
- HY11005 - The Rise of Atlantic Empires, 1500-1750
- HU11001 - Human Futures
Semester 2
- HY11004 - Age of Revolution, c.1750-1850
- HU12001 - The Globalizing World
Plus 4 other MA modules.
Level 2A total of 6 modules, typically including:
Semester 1
- HY22006 - Scotland and the Wider World
Semester 2
- HU22001 - America: The Land of the Free
- HY21004 - Imperialism and Decolonisation, 1850-2000
Plus 3 other MA modules.
Level 3Single Honours History / Scottish Historical Studies students must take the recommended module, currently: HY31029: Making History plus three other History modules from the list available at the time, for example:
Semester 1
- HY31016 - Reading Seventeenth-Century Scotland
- HY31029 - Making History
- HY31034 - Interpreting German History
- HY32018 - Early American History
- HY32010 - Questions of Ulster 1885 to the present
- HY3**** - Civilisation and Barbarism in the Kingdom of Ireland 1537-1800 (TBC)
Evening Module
- HY31020 - Holland in the Age of Rembrandt
Semester 2
- HY31041 - Life at the Margins: Sinners, Deviants and Outcasts in Early Modern Scotland, c.1550-c.1750
- HY32017 - Imperial Spain
- HY31038 - Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Europe
- HY32032 - America in the Sixties
- HY32035 - Contemporary African History
- HY32002 - The Jewel and the Crown
- HY31037 - Invasion of America
Students study four History modules (of which one will be the research dissertation), from the list available, for example:
Semester 1
- HY40001 - Dissertation
- HY42038 - Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970
- HY42048 - Fascist Italy
- HY41053 - Modern South Africa: Apartheid, African Lib & Dem
- HY42058 - The Scottish Highlands and Islands: Health, Politics and Society 1750-1948
Semester 2
- HY40001 - Dissertation
- HY40002 - Italian Renaissance
- HY42052 - Settling the Trans-Appalachian West, ca. 1774-1830
- HY42057 - Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Britain
Evening Module
- HY42049 - Film & History
You will normally follow the standard history route at Levels 1 and 2, and then at Levels 3 and 4 you will choose from a range of specifically Scottish modules, as well as others with a significant Scottish content. You will thus gain an essential grounding in history skills and knowledge, followed by specialisation in Scottish history.
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History MA (Hons)