Postgraduate Prospectus

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Taught course modules
MA History
Research Methods in History
Approaches to Cultural and
Social History
Three optional modules
Dissertation
MA Cultural and Social
History
Research Methods in History
Approaches to Cultural and
Social History
Three optional modules
Dissertation on cultural or
social history
This information is a guide to course
content and is subject to change on
an annual basis.
MA Digital History
Research Methods in History
Approaches to Cultural and
Social History
Techniques in Data
Management and Digital
Preservation
Internet and Digital Skills
for Historians
One optional module
Dissertation
MA Historical Studies
Four optional modules
Summer School
Dissertation
MA Local, Community and
Family History
Research Methods in History
Concepts and Approaches in
Local and Regional History
Trends and Themes in Essex
and Suffolk History,
1500-1700
Decency and Disorder in
Essex, 1700-1900
The Patterns of Victorian Life
Dissertation
MA Researching History in
Britain
Research Methods in History
Quantitative Methods and
Computer Applications in
Historical Research
Basic Quantitative Methods
in Historical Research
One optional module
Dissertation
Postgraduate Certificate
in History/Cultural and
Social History/Digital
History
Research Methods in History
Approaches to Cultural and
Social History
Three optional modules
Postgraduate Certificate
in Historical Studies
Four optional modules
Summer School
Postgraduate Certificate
in Local, Community and
Family History
Research Methods in History
Concepts and Approaches in
Local and Regional History
Three optional modules
Optional modules
Consumption and Modernity: Britain
1780-1960
Current Debates in British History
Decency and Disorder in Essex,
1700-1900
Gender in Early Modern Europe
History of Display: Development of
International Expositions and Museums
in Historical Perspective
History of Medicine
Internet and Digital Skills for Historians
Issues in Film Theory and History
Nationalism, War and Ethnic Cleansing
Print and the Construction of Knowledge
Since the Fifteenth Century
Race and Class: South Africa and the
United States
Slavery in the Atlantic World
Techniques in Data Management and
Digital Preservation
The Afro-American Heritage:
Post-emancipation Societies in Latin
America and the Caribbean
The Patterns of Victorian Life
Trends and Themes in English Local
History, 1500-1700
Given the flexibility of our course, it is
possible to take various 'pathways' by
selecting differing optional modules.
Combinations of our modules can enable
you to pursue your interests in gender
history; the history of race, nationalism and
ethnicity; the history of class and gender;
comparative history; local and regional
history; and slavery and Atlantic history.
Key employability skills include learning
how to create a research brief, analytical
reasoning, the marshalling of information,
problem solving, and various forms of
information presentation.
MA Cultural and Social History•
This course offers you modules in social
and cultural history, dealing with a range
of areas, themes and periods, which place
you at the cutting-edge of historical thought
on issues such as gender, race, class,
modernity, mentalities and identities.
You explore the varied ways in which
understandings of the relationship between
evidence and interpretation, language and
the material world, economies and
identities, have been challenged and
changed by the ‘cultural turn’.
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