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History MA visiting student
This page includes a list of History MA options that are due to run in the 2024-25 academic and are available to visiting students. These modules are subject to availability and your MA degree programme regulations.
History option modules
History option modules
Semester one:
HST6601: Approaching the Middle Ages (30 credits)
HST6602: Early Modernities (30 credits)
HST6603: Modernity & Power: Individuals & The State In The Modern World (30 credits)
HST6604: Approaches to the American Past (30 credits)
HST6606: The World in Connection: Themes in Global History (30 credits)
HST426 The United States and the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-63 (15 credits)
HST694 Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Politics, Culture and Society (15 credits)
HST699 The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975 (15 credits)
HST6042 Presenting the Past: Making History Public (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)
HST6072 Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-1918 (15 credits)
HST6082 Imagining the Republic: Irish Republicanism, 1798-1998 (15 credits)
HST6085 Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War (15 credits)
HST6089 Wikipedia and History (15 credits)
HST6801 Research Skills for Historians (15 credits)
HST6850 Palaeography (15 credits)
HST61025 Approaches and Methods in Media History (15 credits)
Semester two:
HST401 The Global Cold War (30 credits)
HST402 Race and Racism in Historical Perspective (30 credits)
HST423 A History of Emotions, from the Medieval Age to the Modern (30 credits)
HST424 Feminist Methods in Historical Practice (30 credits)
HST425 Thinking Hemispherically: the Americas in the Twentieth Century (15 credits)
HST427 Captivity and Consequences: Race, Gender and the French Empire, 1940-45 (15 credits)
HST681 Work Placement (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)
* 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.
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