History

This MA draws on the wide range and depth of research and teaching expertise in UCL History to give students the opportunity to choose courses relating to a variety of historical periods and locations. The programme offers advanced level teaching by leading practitioners in a range of fields.

Students will be introduced to key historical concepts and theories. The core course offers a forum for such debates, and also provides students with the technical and intellectual apparatus to pursue their own research interests under expert guidance.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of the core course (30 credits), between two and four optional modules (60 credits) and a research dissertation (90 credits).

Core modules

• History Dissertation
• Advanced Skills, Concepts and Theory for MA Historians

Optional modules

Options may include the following:

• Propaganda and Ideology in Rome
• Identity and Power in Medieval Europe
• Political Thought in Renaissance Europe
• The Public Sphere in Britian, 1476–1800
• Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain: 1850 to the present
• Crisis and Future in 19th-century European Thought
• Nations and States in Transnational Perspective
• Thinking Postcolonially: Britain and Empire in the 19th Century
• Charismatic Cosmopolitans: Intellectuals and International Institutions in the Interwar Period
• The United States and the World, 1776–1900
• Debating the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
• Adam Smith and the State
• Globalisation in the 20th Century
• The Origins of the American Civil war

Dissertation/report

All students undertake an independent research project on a topic in History, which culminates in a dissertation of up to 15,000 words.

Teaching and learning

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials. Some sessions will take place outside UCL in institutions such as the British Library, the National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Students are assessed through written coursework, examination, and the dissertation.

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.