DPT: Contemporary History (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCOHIS1F)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, 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, normally three per Semester, and the MSc Dissertation.

Students on PGHC11313 Dissertation must write their dissertation in Contemporary history.

Compulsory courses

Historical Methodology

Developing Historical Research

Dissertation, Taught MSc in History

Course options

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

The Holocaust in History and Culture (PG)

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision (PG Version)

Muslims in Europe (PG Version)

The Civil Rights Movement

War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland

An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s

Genocide in Contemporary History

Islamic Africa

The 'Dark Side': Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritages

The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present)

The Cold War in Latin America

Cinema and Society in England and Scotland

A Modern History of Demographic Angst and Population Control

Ethnographies of the United States

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

The Holocaust in History and Culture (PG)

Jewish Texts through the Ages

Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval

Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Reformation and Modern

Religion and the Enlightenment: The Birth of the Modern

Theology in the Long Reformation 1400-1600

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision (PG Version)

The History and Culture of Iran

Muslims in Europe (PG Version)

Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia

Unfolding Afghanistan in a Globalised Context

Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis

Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries

The Civil Rights Movement

Intellectual History of the American Revolution

War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland

An uncertain world: the West since the 1970s

Genocide in Contemporary History

The Global Renaissance

Studying Women in Late Medieval England: Sources and Approaches

Islamic Africa

Making Histories: Theories and Practices in Writing History

The 'Dark Side': Dark Tourism and Difficult Heritages

The Nine Lives of the Medieval Church

Nepotism and Venality: Corruption and Accountability in the Middle Ages

Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland

The Politics of History in the Arabic-Speaking World (c.1750-Present)

The Cold War in Latin America

Cinema and Society in England and Scotland

The Medieval Indian Ocean: Climates, Communities and Commodities

Scottish Reformation Culture, c. 1540-c. 1640

Capitalism and Slavery

Data Science for the Past: Statistical Thinking & Visualization

Beyond Feudalism: Economy and Society in the Global Middle Ages

A Modern History of Demographic Angst and Population Control

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.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945 (online)

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

The Shadow of Versailles: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939 (online)

British Empires, 1601-1948 (online)

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

Islamic Africa (Online)

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

Medicine and Society in Modern Britain (Online)

Before Scotland: The Transformation of Northern Britain in the First Millennium CE (Online)

Charlemagne and the End of Antiquity (Online)

The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth-Century Britain (online)

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