“From the very beginning I have benefited from expert supervision for my project. The scholarly community at St Andrews is vibrant: regular postgraduate research seminars take place within the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and there is a weekly seminar programme. I have also had the chance to become involved in the Institute’s annual Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages postgraduate conference.”
JAMIE Pitkeathly Wells, Perthshire Current PhD Mediaeval History student
Environmental History Programme Director: Dr John Clark (
jfc2@st-andrews.ac.uk) Aim of Programme: To afford postgraduate students the opportunity to engage in historical study of human interaction with the natural world. This programme, with an interdisciplinary perspective, will allow students to gain greater appreciation of this intellectually urgent field. Through an examination of the past, they will better appreciate the historically unprecedented scale and pace of human-generated change to the environment over the past century – and the social, political, economic, and ecological implications of these changes.
Programme Content: This programme gives students the opportunity to explore multiple dimensions of this significant field of study, while firmly rooting this knowledge in a progressively better understanding of core issues within historiography and methodology. All students take the core module History in the Making: Theories, Approaches and Practices and then select two more modules from a range of available options which include, for example, Disease and the Environment, c.1500-2000, Charles Darwin and the Politics of Progress in the Natural World or Environmental History, 1800 to Present, or they may select a Directed Reading module under the direction of a specialist in the field. 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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