The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: MA Modern History (Part-Time)
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.
Core modules (‘Practicing Modern History’ and ‘Communicating History’) help you understand these different approaches and give you the critical skills to contribute to current historiographical debates. A 15,000-word research dissertation, closely supervised by a leading historian in their field, allows you to apply the knowledge and skills you have gained.
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.
The MA Modern History enables you to immerse yourself in this diverse scholarly community; besides taught modules, you are encouraged to participate in the School’s research culture by attending research seminars, conferences and workshops.
(Part-Time) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code HIST5055M | Title Practising Modern History | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from one of the following optional module baskets:
Basket 1
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code HIST5020M | Title Making History: Archive Collaborations | Credits 30 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5180M | Title Latin America and the Global Cold War | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5750M | Title Social Histories of South Africa | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5830M | Title Stalinist Terror | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5880M | Title Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
Basket 2
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code HIST5022M | Title Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5720M | Title Revolution and Rebirth: Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1985-99 | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5891M | Title Histories of Migration | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5910M | Title The Idea of Black Culture | Credits 30 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
(Part-Time) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following semester 1 optional modules basket:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code HIST5021M | Title Early Modern Cities | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5023M | Title Imperial (Dis)order: Crime, Morality, Discipline and Empire | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5225M | Title Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5839M | Title Black Internationalism | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5860M | Title Britain and the Slave Trade | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST5880M | Title Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine | Credits 30 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
Last updated: 10/07/2024 10:58:56
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