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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022

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Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, 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.

Compulsory courses

Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis

Dissertation: MSc by Research in History (Social Science)

Core quantitative data analysis 1 and 2

Course options

ESRC Funded students MUST take these courses.

Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection

Research Design

OR

Historical Research: Skills and Sources

Historical Methodology

AND

Microeconomics 1

Macroeconomics 1

AND

Contemporary Scotland

The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain

The Civil Rights Movement

Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices

Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland

The United States and the Vietnam War: Origins and Repercussions

The Sixties in the United States

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

War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland

Medicine and Society in Modern Britain

The Crusades: Thirteenth Century Crossroads

Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present

Medieval Men and Masculinities

Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt and the breakdown of European Civilization

Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe

Genocide in Contemporary History

The Global Renaissance

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

Studying Women in Late Medieval England: Sources and Approaches

Literature and History in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Athens of the North: The Scottish Enlightenment

The European Enlightenments, 1670 - 1820

Medieval Travellers in the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia

Thinking with Things: History and Material Culture Studies

Narrating Native Histories

African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in Modern African History, c. 1880 to 1975

Making Histories: Theories and Practices in Writing History

Madness, Science and Society in the Modern World

Gender, Empire, and Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Perspectives from the Wider World

Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War II

Global Environmental History

Black Activism in Britain since 1800

AND

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)

Empire or Continent?: British Foreign Policy in the Era of the Great War (online)

Debating Marriage Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages (online)

Material Histories of Asian Societies in the Early Modern Period (online)

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

Islamic Africa (Online)

An Age of Great Dreams: The 1960s in the United States (online)

An Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture & Society (online)

The School of Statecraft: History, Leadership, and Policymaking (online)

Prehistory of Egypt: major steps for humankind millennia before the pyramids (online)

Freedom and Coercion in the Making of the Atlantic World (online)

AND

Supervised Reading Course (E&SH)

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