MA United States Studies: History And Politics

Normally an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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This degree provides skills well suited to jobs in sectors such as policy and government, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations), business and financial services, media and journalism, academia and education.

Compulsory modules

• Researching the Americas
• Dissertation
• Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy
• From the New South to the Modern South: The (Re)Making of an American Region
• Challenging the Straight State: Regulation Repression, and Resistance in US Sexual Politics
• States of Exception: US State-building through its Exceptional Geographies
• The Making of the Modern U.S. Presidency
• The United States at War: Decolonial Perspectives, 1898-present
• Politics of US Foreign Policy

Optional modules

• Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy
• From the New South to the Modern South: The (Re)Making of an American Region
• Challenging the Straight State: Regulation Repression, and Resistance in US Sexual Politics
• States of Exception: US State-building through its Exceptional Geographies
• The Making of the Modern U.S. Presidency
• The United States at War: Decolonial Perspectives, 1898-present
• Politics of US Foreign Policy