War and Strategy

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This programme provides students with a thorough understanding of relevant methodological approaches and the questions and challenges of writing and researching military history. You’ll analyse the role of war in human history from its early beginnings to the present day in a core module which focuses on historiographical debates about warfare. You can then choose to study optional modules about a broad range of topics in the history of war, from medieval and early modern times to today.
You’ll have opportunities to use internationally-renowned collections in your studies, including the Liddle Collection of artefacts and private papers from the First World War in our Brotherton Library, the holdings of the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, and material from the Imperial War museum North at Salford. The Second World War experience museum in nearby Wetherby provides a huge collection of private papers from the Second World War.

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Location

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
For taught MA courses our entry requirements are a first class or upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) in History or a related subject.
English language requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in all components.
How to apply
Applications for study beginning in September must be submitted to the University by 15 August. busiest times (April-June), this process can take up to 6 weeks.
Please especially bear these timescales in mind if you intend to apply for scholarships: you need to have received your offer of a place before scholarship panels...

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Subjects

  • Private

Course programme

As well as the three compulsory modules, you also choose two optional modules from a selection, for example:

- Making History: Archive Collaborations

- Warfare in the Age of the Crusades

- Defending the Nation: Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793 to 1815

- Medicine and Warfare in the19th and 20th Centuries

- The War on Terror

- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

- Guns and Global Security

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methodology in History 30 credits
  • War and Strategy Dissertation 60 credits
  • A History of War 30 credits
Optional modules
  • Making History: Archive Collaborations 30 credits
  • 'The continuation of war by other means? : Case Studies in Wartime Diplomacy 1931-1945 30 credits
  • Medicine and Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30 credits
  • Defending the Nation: Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793 to 1815 30 credits
  • The War on Terror 30 credits
  • Guns and Global Security 30 credits
  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency 30 credits
  • Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (1095-1204) 30 credits

For more information on typical modules, read War and Strategy MA in the course catalogue

Learning and teaching

We use a range of teaching and learning methods. The majority of your modules will be taught through weekly seminars, where you’ll discuss issues and themes in your chosen modules with a small group of students and your tutors. Independent study is also crucial to this degree, giving you the space to shape your own studies and develop your skills.

Assessment

Research Methodology in History requires a conference-style 'work-in-progress' presentation on a research project. You will also submit a detailed research proposal of 4,000 words.

A History of War is assessed through two literature reviews and a verbal presentation.

Optional modules are usually assessed through the submission of two written assignments.

The dissertation is of 15,000 words in length, to be submitted by the end of the academic year.

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