History

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for postgraduate taught programmes are a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification (for example, GPA 3.0 or above) in a relevant subject unless otherwise specified. Note: a short (one paragraph) statement of interest is also required. Further information regarding academic entry requirements: student.recruitment@glasgow.ac.uk

Months of entry

September

Course content

The Masters in History provides you with an outstanding learning experience in the company of Glasgow's thirty-strong cohort of historians, and the opportunity to conceive, design and execute a research project/dissertation. The programme combines training in historical theory, skills and methods with a wide range of specialist taught options which cover all periods from medieval to late modern, in relation to Scotland, Britain, Europe, America and elsewhere.

Why Glasgow

• Our links with the University’s museum and art gallery, The Hunterian, provide access to primary source material including an enormous collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, coins, books, manuscripts and ethnography.

• You will also enjoy access to The Baillie Collection, our prized collection of printed medieval and modern sources in Scottish, Irish and English history, which includes printed state papers, Historical Manuscript Commission publications and a select collection of modern monographs.
• If you are looking for the opportunity to pursue your own historical interests in a lively and friendly environment, led and supported by internationally-regarded historians, this programme is ideal for you.

Programme Structure

Our pathway structure allows you to tailor your degree to match an interest in one of the following fields

• Medieval history
• Modern and late modern history
• Scottish history
• Social and cultural history
• Gender history
• Military history.

Each programme is built around a hands-on research training course, specialised courses on historical and theoretical themes, and other courses developing your technical skills and other abilities like languages and palaeography.

For your chosen programme, there will be a guided selection of courses that will provide you with specialised knowledge in that field. You will be taught through a series of seminars and workshops. Internationally recognised historians give guest lectures throughout the year.

These courses are taught in history, economic and social history (in the College of Social Sciences), and by related subject areas in the School of Humanities (archaeology, Celtic, classics) and the College of Arts (such as English language and French).

In the final part of the programme, you will select a specialised topic and conduct original primary source research for your dissertation. You are supported in your research and writing up by an assigned supervisor with expertise in your field of enquiry.

Core course

• The core course for the MLitt/MSc in History is the Research Resources and Skills for Historians (RRSH) course, taught through a series of seminars and workshops. This course addresses recent developments in historical thinking, IT, identification of source material, research-project design and bibliographic and presentation skills.

  The core course accounts for 20 of the 180 credits required for this degree.

Optional courses (NB this is not an exhaustive list)

• American Way of War
• Approaches to History
• Belief and Conversion in Europe c. 300 – c.1000
• Century of the refugee: refugees and statelessness in comparative perspective
• Chivalry and Warfare
• Crusading Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Culture, Politics and Society in Highland Clearances
• Gender and Text
• Gender, Politics and Power
• Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency
• Issues, Ideologies & Institutions in Modern Scotland
• Medieval Palaeography 1
• Medieval Deep Structures of Russia and Eastern Europe
• Scottish Castles and Palaces in European Context, c.1100-1600
• Scottish Radicalism
• Scottish Reformation
• Secularisation and Society: the decline of religion in the west since 1800
• Specialist course in Medieval Scottish Studies 1
• Specialist course in Medieval Scottish Studies 2
• Special Topic History 1
• Special Topic in History 2
• The Normans
• The Ottomans in history, 1300–1922
• Thomas Paine as an Enlightenment Revolutionary
• Western Intelligence in an Age of Terror
• Women and Power in Renaissance Italy

Information for international students

IELTS 6.5 (with no subtest less than 6) iBT TOEFL 92 (with no less than 21 in Listening & writing, 22 in reading, 23 in speaking) Cambridge ESOL Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) - B minimum or Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) - C minimum

Fees and funding

http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/history/

Qualification and course duration

MLitt

PGDip

MSc

Assessment

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