Postgraduate Prospectus

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Recent publication by Essex graduate Amanda Flather,
now a lecturer in our Department
Graduates gain key employability skills like
a greater understanding of the specificity
of different cultures, as well as the ability
to create a brief, analytical reasoning,
the marshalling of information, problem
solving, and presentation skills.
MA Digital History•
If you are about to embark on research,
then our MA Digital History provides you
with an intensive, hands-on training in
current approaches within the digital
historical disciplines. Our modules cover
relevant subjects like the identification
of online resources and publishing, the
creating and storage of digital resources,
computing, and quantitative and qualitative
analysis. We combine this with modules
on current research topics that allow
you to apply such techniques in
historical disciplines.
Key employability skills include the ability
to handle and manipulate digital data and
images, knowledge of the curation of
such material, quantitative and computer
methods, the creation of a brief, analytical
reasoning, the marshalling of information,
problem solving, and presentation
skills, including undertaking web-based
presentations. While studying, you will
also be eligible for consideration for
internships and work placements within
our UK Data Archive.
MA Historical Studies•
We have specifically tailored MA Historical
Studies to meet the needs of our part-time
learners. This course is taught only in the
evening, over a minimum of three years,
and you can choose from an exciting range
of modules in early modern and modern
history. Our course will particularly appeal
if you are seeking career enhancement in
teaching and other occupations, or simply
wish to keep your mind active. Applications
from individuals who do not meet standard
entry requirements are given further
consideration.
MA Local, Community and Family History•
This course introduces you to the concepts
and approaches used in local, community
and family history. Local/micro history,
as well as community and family studies,
has played an increasingly important part
in the development of historical analysis.
We reflect these developments with our
modules that draw on the rich national
(and comparative) literature in these fields,
with a primary focus on the period from
1800 to the twentieth century. You will
also design and conduct a substantial
independent study on a chosen historical
topic or in the field of local, community
or family history.
Our course will develop your skills in
comparative historical analysis, giving you
key transferable skills that will greatly
enhance your employability upon
graduation.
MA Researching History in Britain•
This course equips you with the level of
historical sophistication and skill required
for postgraduate research work in history,
providing essential training if you are
planning to proceed to doctoral level.
MA Researching History in Britain will widen
and deepen your historical perspective and
develop your skills in historical analysis.
If you are about to embark on historical
research, you will receive an intensive
grounding in current approaches within
the historical discipline which include
methodological questions (for example,
computing and quantitative analysis), as
well as the identification and use of
research materials.
Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma
in History
We offer Postgraduate Certificates and
Diplomas, which run for six to nine months
full-time and consist of 60 or 120 credits of
taught modules, respectively. Our Graduate
Diplomas equip those with a Bachelor’s
degree with specific knowledge to proceed
to a Masters in a different subject area.
Our Postgraduate Certificates and
Diplomas consist of the modules and
assessed work of our Masters courses,
without the dissertation element.
Research study
We are one of the UK’s leading research
departments. Past and present members
of our staff are at the forefront of research
in the historical disciplines.
Our PhD students study in an environment
of active research on the leading edge
of the historical disciplines. Indeed, the
research of our PhD students often attracts
attention, with many giving papers at
seminar series and conferences like the
Social History Society. A few examples of
recent research include:
n Slave Resistance in Comparative
Perspective: Western Cuba and North
Eastern Brazil Plantation, 1808-1848
n Images of Community in British and
French Cinema, 1939-1951
n Resistance in Exile: Sitting Bull and the
Hunkpapa Sioux in Canada, 1876-1888
n Representations of Masculinity in the
Superhero Film Post 9/11
n Institutions and Strategies of Political
Propaganda During the Military
Dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-1985
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