American Studies (History) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides training in research skills, an introduction to representative American Studies approaches, and an examination of contemporary American culture; it enables students to focus on the study of the history of the United States, as well as wider approaches to research and American studies.(read more)

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Francophone and Postcolonial Studies MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: The course is for those who wish to undertake postgraduate study in francophone and postcolonial studies; it forms an ideal bridge between undergraduate study and postgraduate research, allowing students to progress towards more independent research under the supervision of specialists in their field.(read more)

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Ancient History MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Students gain a strong foundation in the skills and techniques necessary for effective research in this field; the course offers an annually changing menu of optional modules, which enables students to develop their knowledge and understanding of the history and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds down to the end of antiquity.(read more)

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History MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research areas include: Witchcraft; film history; cold war; Italian history; London, crime and poverty 1700-1900; social economic and political history of Britain.(read more)

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History MRes

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The Master's aims to provide students with the opportunity to engage in advanced historical research, as well as appropriate research training tailored to particular research interests; through its taught training modules, the programme offers students the chance to engage at an advanced level with general disciplinary and methodological debates, as well as conduct training work preliminary to writing the dissertation.(read more)

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World History and Cultures MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The Master's offers a rigorous and challenging introduction to the history of the global networks and power relations that made up European empires since the eighteenth century; the programme develops students' expertise in the local histories of global interaction, in the effects of British rule in India, Australasia or the Caribbean for example.(read more)

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Medieval History MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research interests of staff include: The history, topography and archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, especially of the church; the late medieval church in continental Europe, especially religious orders, heresy and inquisition; early European economic and social history; the Vikings; economy and society in late medieval England; early medieval societies, especially the Carolingians.(read more)

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History of Medicine MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: British health and welfare policy in the 18th-20th centuries; 20th-century medical refugees; 19th- and 20th-century international eugenics; history of health organisations; history of epidemics; history of pregnancy and childbirth in early modern Europe; doctors and patients 1600-1850; histories of infanticide; body snatching; postmortems; history of doctoring; history of nursing.(read more)

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Modern History MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: This Modern History MA will bring together the world class expertise of the School and several of its specialist centres in an exciting and innovative approach to the study of History between c.1500 - 2000. Each of the modules offered on the course is the product of the research interests of at least one of our academics. The University of Kent School of History was rated second nationally in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.(read more)

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Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Current interests include: Early modern material culture; late medieval art history; medieval and early modern religious history; Anglo-Saxon archaeology and liturgy; early modern politics; medieval and early modern drama; and textual editing.(read more)

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History MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Course is designed to allow students to further their undergraduate interest in history, and to develop the skills and knowledge which they would need if they decided to undertake further research into the past; it combines training in research techniques and theoretical and historiographic analysis, with taught courses and a substantial dissertation.(read more)

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Renaissance Studies MLitt

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is an inter-institutional degree taught by a team of tutors drawn from the Universities of Strathclyde, Stirling and Glasgow, and jointly awarded by the Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling; the Master's is involved in a postgraduate exchange programme with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.(read more)

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History MRes

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research areas include: Witchcraft; film history; cold war; Italian history; London, crime and poverty 1700-1900; social economic and political history of Britain.(read more)

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History MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: There are 2 types of programme; the Master's by Research entails producing a 40000-word thesis; the MPhil and PhD programmes demand a high level of research and analysis resulting in a 60,000 (MPhil) or 100,000 (PhD) word thesis; the course runs regular seminars in medieval and tudor studies, modern history, the history and cultural studies of science, and the study of propaganda.(read more)

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Researching History in Britain MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Course provides a wide-ranging preparation for understanding research in history in Britain for the period since the 16th century; combines training modules with a choice of options in aspects of historical research in Britain.(read more)

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History, Sociology and Anthropology MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research interests of staff include: Contemporary and alternative spiritualities; religion and ethics; religion and politics in south Asia; sociology/anthropology of religion; churches in modern Britain; religious history of Africa; history of missions; social anthropology.(read more)

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Welsh History MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in all periods of Welsh History; research interests of staff extend from the early medieval period to the present and include the political, social, cultural and religious history of Wales; particular expertise is available in the medieval church and the age of the Princes; historiography and cultural identity; and the political history of Wales in the modern period, including devolution.(read more)

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Eighteenth-Century Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Core: Extremes of feeling: literature and empire in the 18th-Century (English); Hacks, Dunces, Scribblers: authorship and the marketplace in 18th-Century literature (English); options: Hogarth and the analysis of beauty; Jane Austen and material culture (English); taste, beauty and the sublime: studies in 18th-Century aesthetics.(read more)

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History MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Students may either take courses within a strand that reflects their existing intellectual interests or, alternatively, they may customise their Master's by choosing courses across different strands: Hellenic studies; medieval studies; early modern history; modern Europe; modern world history; gender history; modern Britain.(read more)

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Medieval Studies MPhil

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research areas include: Chaucer, 15-century literature; medieval drama; medieval Scottish literature; middle English alliterative poetry, electronic texts, regionalism in middle English texts, vernacular chronicles, the language of documents; English place-names and related studies; Skaldic poetry and vocabulary, Old Norse Runic inscriptions, Old Norse texts and Viking age history; Old English language and literature.(read more)

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