Study Details: 1 Year Full-time
Explore the historical contexts that have given rise to the emergencies of today. You’ll analyse past approaches to global challenges and learn ways to influence attitudes and bring about change.
Our world faces many challenges, from conflict and sustainability to migration and the preservation of human rights. On this 1-year MA, you’ll engage critically with some of the biggest problems in the world to learn to develop solutions for both now and the future.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
Learn how to influence and create change using:
This course will also give you a range of additional skills not normally prioritised within a History MA degree, including data analysis and visualisation, project management, and media communication.
You’ll need a 2:1 degree in an undergraduate subject.
These would usually be in:
We also welcome applicants who want to complement previous undergraduate degrees in:
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This degree will allow you to develop and evidence subject-specific and targeted employability skills. This includes the required skill set for a range of future careers, further study, or starting your own business.
The skills you can expect to focus on and gain from this course include:
You must study the following modules :
Challenge and Change: Independent Project Portfolio
Effecting Change 1: Policy and Advocacy
You must also choose from the following modules :
Advanced Research Seminar in American History
Advanced Research Seminar in Ancient History
Advanced Research Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern History
Advanced Research Seminar in Modern British History
Global Challenges in Context: Conflict and Security
Global Challenges in Context: Energy and Environment
Global Challenges in Historical Context: Identity and Rights.
Global Challenges in Historical Context: Migration and Asylum
Memory in National and Transnational Contexts
Narrative, Place, Identity
Nation, Culture, Power
Text as Data
The Ethics of Climate Change
Themes in American History
Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
Themes in Modern British History
Themes in the Ancient World
Transnational Movement in the Age of Globalisation
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