(Award available for year: Master of Arts)
1. Critically assess the ways in which international history is mobilized by different actors to serve present-day ends and needs;
2. Evaluate and appraise diplomatic practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with concrete historical examples and case studies;
3. Initiate, research, and complete an advanced level research project;
4. Use international history to better understand and analyse contemporary affairs.
Skills Learning Outcomes:
1. Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence;
2. Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance;
3. Critically navigate the challenges faced in interpreting complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence;
4. Assess constructively different arguments and evidence, using evidence to form arguments and idea.
Competence Standards
1. Effectively communicate key ideas and arguments about the international history of the recent past (for example, from the later nineteenth century onwards) to diverse audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of international history.
3. Critically interpret source material from the recent past.
4. Construct arguments supported by historical evidence, considering diverse perspectives where appropriate.
5. Design and produce an independent research project in international history, analysing primary sources, with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques and approaches to the study of history
The School of History uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. In the MA International History assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules typically include: a dissertation, book reviews, student-led seminars and presentations, and essays.
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