MA guided modules 2024-25

This page includes a list of history and archaeology MA options that are due to run in the 2024-25 academic and are offered as for guided module choice to students studying non-history and archaeology MA programmes in Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences. These modules are subject to availability and your MA degree programme regulations - please check with your home department if you are unsure.

Please note that our history modules are usually capped at 15. First preference will be given to students taking the owning MA programme where needed.

History option modules

Semester one:

HST412 Heritage, History and Identity (15 credits)
HST415 Landscapes in archaeology: methods and perspectives (15 credits)
HST416 Bronze Age Worlds (15 credits)
HST418 Reinventing Archaeology (15 credits)
HST420 Society and Culture in the Later Middle Ages (15 credits)
HST422 Digital Mapping for the Humanities (15 credits)
HST426 The United States and the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-63 (15 credits)
HST699 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 (15 credits)
HST6043 Burying the White Gods: Indigenous Peoples in the Early Modern Colonial World (15 credits)
HST6053 Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (15 credits)
HST6085 Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War (15 credits)
HST6089 Wikipedia and History (15 credits)
HST61025 Approaches and Methods in Media History (15 credits)

Semester two:

HST401 The Global Cold War (30 credits)
HST408 Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice (15 credits)
HST411 Funerary Archaeology (15 credits)
HST417 Heritage, Place and Community (15 credits)
HST423 A History of Emotions, from the Medieval Age to the Modern (30 credits)
HST424 Feminist Methods in Historical Practice (30 credits)
HST427 Captivity and Consequences: Race, Gender and the French Empire, 1940-45 (15 credits)
HST6031 The Dawn of Modernity in the Late Middle Ages (15 credits)
HST6046 Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain (15 credits)
HST6076 International Order in the Twentieth Century (15 credits)
HST6087 Before Facebook: Social Networks in History (15 credits)

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* Please note that the course details set out here may change before you start, particularly if you are applying significantly in advance of the course start date. The content of our courses is reviewed annually to make sure it's up-to-date and relevant. Individual modules are occasionally updated or withdrawn. This is in response to discoveries through our world-leading research; funding changes; professional accreditation requirements; student or employer feedback; outcomes of reviews; and variations in staff or student numbers. In the event of any change we'll consult and inform students in good time and take reasonable steps to minimise disruption.