Modern History MA

Master

In Sheffield

£ 7,000 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Sheffield

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Historians have long been fascinated by modernity and the societies to which it gave rise.
The MA Modern History explores these changes, allowing you to explore the political cleavages and cultural uncertainty unleashed by the great revolutions, the mobilisations and resistance of the two world wars, and the transnational forces of empire and globalisation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Sheffield (South Yorkshire)
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Western Bank, S10 2TN

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

A 2:1 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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2018

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Subjects

  • Modern History
  • Modernity
  • Power
  • Modern World
  • Prisoners of War
  • Politics
  • Politics of Women
  • Liberation
  • Modern Britain
  • Great War
  • Violence
  • Medical Humanity
  • Medicine and Identity
  • Imagining
  • Bibliographical

Course programme

Modules

Core modules
  • Research Presentation
  • Modernity and Power
  • Individuals and the State in the Modern World
  • Dissertation
Optional modules
  • Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century
  • Sex and Power: The Politics of Women’s Liberation in Modern Britain
  • Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914–1918
  • Medical Humanity? Medicine and Identity
  • Imagining the Republic: Irish Republicanism, 1798–1998
Teaching

You’ll be taught through seminars and individual tutorials.

Assessment

Assessment is by bibliographical and source-based exercises, written papers, oral presentation, and a 15,000 word dissertation.

Additional information

Overseas Fee (2018 annual fee) : £16,800

Modern History MA

£ 7,000 VAT inc.