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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5055M | Practising Modern History | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5020M | Making History: Archive Collaborations | 30 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| HIST5180M | Latin America and the Global Cold War | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5750M | Social Histories of South Africa | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5830M | Stalinist Terror | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5880M | Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine | 30 | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 2
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5022M | Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5720M | Revolution and Rebirth: Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1985-99 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5891M | Histories of Migration | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST5910M | The Idea of Black Culture | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
(Part-Time) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
View Timetable
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5015M | Dissertation (MA) | 60 | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) | |
| HIST5170M | Communicating History | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following semester 1 optional modules basket:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST5021M | Early Modern Cities | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5023M | Imperial (Dis)order: Crime, Morality, Discipline and Empire | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5225M | Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5839M | Black Internationalism | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5860M | Britain and the Slave Trade | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST5880M | Approaches to the History of Health and Medicine | 30 | Not running in 202425 |
Last updated: 10/07/2024 10:58:56
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