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HISTORY FACULTY OF ARTS


History


Programme History


Awards MA


Duration


1yr FT; 2yrs PT


Fees (per year)*


UK/EU £8,300 FT UK/EU £4,150 PT Overseas £18,400 FT


Contact choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk


For further details, including entry requirements, programme structure, unit content and how to apply, see bristol.ac.uk/pg-study. Research programmes are listed on the Faculty of Arts pages (pp46-47). *See p43 for more information about tuition fees.


MA History


The MA in History offers you the opportunity to explore a variety of approaches – intellectual, political, cultural, social and economic – across a broad chronological and geographical range. The programme provides a high degree of choice across the department’s key areas of expertise, with particular strengths in: • medieval and early modern history • contemporary British and European history • imperial, global and transnational history • public history.


Given the wide range of research and teaching in the department, we are confident you will find units that reflect your own interests. Alternatively, you may prefer not to specialise, and instead obtain a broad sense of historical subjects, themes, debates and methodologies.


The MA comprises six taught units and a research dissertation. Teaching on the programme moves from lectures, through seminars, to one-on-one supervision. Likewise, the focus develops from broader units, through more specialised ones, to your chosen dissertation topic.


You begin with a series of core and optional units. All students take Academic Research and Writing and Approaches to History – core MA units that enable you to develop critical research skills and approaches that underlie the later assessments.


You also choose a further unit from a wide range of Lecture Response Units (interactive units that combine seminar and lecture elements) on subjects that span the period from 1000 to the present. In the second teaching block, you will select three primary source-based seminar units from a wide range of options.


In the third semester, you will write a primary source-based dissertation of up to 15,000 words, supervised one-on-one by an academic in the department. You will identify the subject for your dissertation in the spring, but most of the research is conducted over the summer. The dissertation is submitted in mid-September.


Students who complete the MA in History have taken up careers as history teachers, researchers in a number of different fields, journalists, image and data capture assistants and in the heritage industry. A number of MA graduates have gone on to take an MPhil/PhD in History and develop careers as research academics. Another popular choice is to develop successful careers in fields such as public relations, accountancy, fund management and the law by building on the transferable skills acquired through master’s study.


Entry requirements: An upper second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social sciences discipline. Non-traditional qualifications/routes may also be considered.


bristol.ac.uk/pg-study


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