DPT: Economic and Social History (MSc by Research) (Part-time) (PRMSCECNSH1P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses and the MSc Dissertation over the duration of the degree.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

1. These core courses MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.
2. You must take all courses in the list and cannot take any course twice.

Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis

Supervised Reading Course (E&SH)

Core quantitative data analysis 1 and 2

AND

ESRC Funded students MUST take these courses.

Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection

Research Design

Historical Research: Skills and Sources

Historical Methodology

AND

Or another core course in the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics (SGPE).

Microeconomics 1

Macroeconomics 1

AND

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Contemporary Scotland

Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834

Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices

The Sources of Medieval History

Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland

Cinema and Society in Britain

Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960

The Sixties in the United States

The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877

History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985

War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland

Propaganda in Renaissance Scotland

Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present

Introduction to Contemporary History

Medieval Men and Masculinities

China's foreign and security policy: a twentieth-century perspective

The Global Renaissance

Revolutions in Modern Europe

Directed Reading & Research (PGT-Sem 2)

Directed Reading & Research (PGT-Sem 1)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective

Studying Women in Late Medieval England: Sources and Approaches

Literature and History in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages

An Unhappy Valley: Mau Mau, culture and colonialism in Kenya's highlands ca.1895-ca.1964

American Borderlands: Histories of the Western Hemisphere

Themes in Scottish Historiography

Edinburgh's Slavery Connections: Research Seminar

A Cultural History of Photography

The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820

Themes in the Historiography of the Americas

Medieval Travellers in the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia

From Wandering Womb to the Loss of Masculinity: Hysteria and its Cultural, Political and Medical Framing in the Nineteen

Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies

Narrating Native Histories

AND

These courses are taught online and are prioritised for students taking an online degree, limited numbers of places may be available to on-campus students.

Consensus to Thatcherism: Government and Politics in Post-War Britain (online)

The Crusades and the Euro-Mediterranean world of the Central Middle Ages (online)

The Rise of Modern U.S. Conservatism (online)

Athens of the North: the Origins and Ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment (online)

The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014 (online)

The Holocaust (online)

Malfeasance and Misbehaviour in Finance - Perceptions and Realities, c. 1500 to the Present (online)

Islamic Africa (Online)

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Dissertation: MSc by Research in History (Social Science)