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The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

Our popular flagship course, MA History offers you a rigorous, flexible and wide-ranging education in the subject. You take a practical module in research techniques with Research Methods in History, gain an introduction to historical theory and study the latest in historical research in specific fields.

Given the flexibility of our course, it is possible to take various 'pathways' by selecting differing optional modules. Combinations of our modules can enable you to pursue your interests in gender history; the history of race, nationalism and ethnicity; the history of class and gender; comparative history; local and regional history; public history; and slavery and Atlantic history. Key employability skills include learning how to create a research brief, analytical reasoning, the marshalling of information, problem solving, and various forms of information presentation.

A Masters course is an academically rigorous programme during which you explore your subject in depth, reaching a high level of specialist knowledge. You draw on knowledge and skills from your undergraduate study or your professional life to produce work of a high academic standard, informed by current thinking and debate.
A Masters course lasts for twelve months (full-time), starting in October, and consists of taught modules during your autumn and spring terms, and normally a research-based dissertation or other project-based work submitted in September. Your balance of modules and research varies according to the subject but, typically, your research counts for 60 credits and there are 120 credits of modules, varying from 10 to 40 credits each. (If you are from the EU, then our Masters courses are regarded as second-cycle qualifications under the Bologna Declaration and consist of 90 ECTS credits).
In some subjects, Postgraduate or Graduate Certificates and Diplomas are available, which last for six to nine months (full-time) and consist of 60 or 120 credits, respectively. These include the modules and assessed work of a Masters, without a dissertation. Our Graduate Diplomas equip those with a Bachelors with knowledge to proceed to a Masters in a different subject.
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Modules
Core modules
* Dissertation
* Research Methods In History

Optional modules
* Approaches To Cultural And Social History
* Decency And Disorder: Institutions In Essex 1700-1900
* History Of Medicine
* Race And Class In The United States, South Africa And Britain: Select Topics
* Research Methods In History
* The Making Of Consumer Culture: Britain 1780-1960
* The Making Of The British State, 1500-1700
* The Past In Hiding: Legacies Of War, Holocaust, Occupation And Collaboration In Post-1945 Europe
* The Patterns Of Victorian Life: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Communities
* The Public History Workshop

Core modules must be taken and passed.
Core with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken and passed.
Compulsory modules must be taken.
Compulsory with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken.
Optional modules are selected from course specific lists.

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