Middle East. In terms of language, students will choose between Arabic for Beginnners, Intermediate Arabic or an Introduction to Modern Persian. Students will also undertake a Directed Reading module under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff. Fields that will be offered in the academic year 2011-2012 include: Ayyubid and Mamluk Near East; Early Ottoman History; Mediaeval Armenia; Modern Arabic Literature; Sasanian and modern Iran. Students who satisfactorily complete the taught element of the programme (Postgraduate Diploma) will be allowed to continue to the three-month, 15,000-word dissertation (MLitt) or to a 40,000-word dissertation over the next fifteen months (MPhil).


Modern History Programme Director: Professor Jerry De Groot (gjdg@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: To offer students of Modern History an opportunity to deepen their understanding of key issues in the discipline by pursuing their studies at a conceptually advanced level, making full use of the wide spectrum of specialist areas covered by members of the School of History.


Programme Content: This programme is designed in a way that maximises choice. This allows students either to specialise in a particular area (e.g. French history, German history, American history, military history) or to gain a broader introduction to the study of History at postgraduate level. All students select one of the two core modules History in the Making: Theories, Approaches and Practice, which is an introduction to history and historiography for students interested in all branches of historical study, or Hallmarks of Modern History which examines themes in the emergence of the Western world during the centuries following the Reformation and explores whether the concepts of modernity and modernisation have historical and intellectual validity. Students will also take a Directed Reading module in which they explore the literature on a topic of individual interest to them under the guidance of an expert and they also select a module from a range of topics available which include: The Sixties: An International Perspective, German Historiography, French History or Themes in American History, Perceptions of Central and Eastern Europe, Britishness 1707-2000, or Transnational History. Students who satisfactorily complete the taught element of the programme (Postgraduate Diploma) will be allowed to continue to the three-month, 15,000- word dissertation (MLitt) or to a 40,000-word dissertation over the next fifteen months (MPhil).


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