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Study Details: MA 12 months full time 24 months part time
Spanning the early modern period to the present day and covering Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, our MA Modern History offers a diverse range of study, not only chronologically and geographically but thematically too. We are one of the largest History departments in the country and the staff who teach on the course have a wide range of expertise.
With a wide range of optional modules, you can tailor the course to suit your interests, but we also encourage you to develop how you think as a historian: you’ll have the chance to encounter new ways of ‘doing’ modern history, from the study of state archives to popular culture and everyday life. Crucially, we don’t prioritise any one approach so you’ll get to work with historians who ask different kinds of questions, use different kinds of sources and who understand the past in different ways.
The School of History at Leeds has more than thirty members of staff currently working in the field of Modern History. We have long-standing strengths in British, European, American and colonial history but we also have experts working on East and South-East Asia, India, Africa, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. Thematically, we also can offer a tremendous range of Modern History. We have specialists in medical history and the history of psychiatry, histories of race and gender, military history, the histories of childhood and the family, histories of protest and resistance, political, transnational and international history.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in history or a related subject.
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This course will enable you to gain high-level research, analysis and communication skills, which will prove valuable in a wide range of careers.
History MA graduates have found success in a wide range of careers in journalism, policy making, research, and the private sector. Many others have continued with their studies at PhD level.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Module Name Credits
Dissertation (MA) 60
Practising Modern History 30
Communicating History 30
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Module Name Credits
Making History: Archive Collaborations 30
Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice 30
Latin America and the Global Cold War 30
Revolution and Rebirth: Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1985-99 30
Social Histories of South Africa 30
Stalinist Terror 30
Histories of Migration from Early Modern to Modern 30
Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine 30
The Idea of Black Culture 30
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