MA American History (HSTT01) FT

2019 - 2020

Year 1

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (45 credits)

A student will take

Semester 1
HST6604	Approaches to the American Past.	AUT SEM	30 credits
Semester 2
HST6802	Research Presentation for Historians	SPR SEM	15 credits

Approved These are on a restricted list of modules offered by your department(s). Normally you will need to select a minimum number of credits from the list. units (75 credits)

A student will take 75 credits from this group.

Semester 1
AAP6102	Heritage, History and Identity	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6043	Burying the White Gods: Indigenous people in the early modern colonial world	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6055	Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6073 XCannot be taken with: HST6078 HST61012 HST61015 HST61017	Medical Humanity? Medicine and Identity	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6076	International Order in the Twentieth Century	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6077	The U.S. Civil War in Global Context	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6085	Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6089 + Departmental approval required.	Wikipedia and Medieval History	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST6801 + Departmental approval required.	Research Skills for Historians	AUT SEM	15 credits
HST699 + Departmental approval required.	The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975	AUT SEM	15 credits
LIT6351	Topics in American Postmoderism	AUT SEM	30 credits
LIT6700	'Tales of the City' - The Living Space in Contemporary American Fiction	AUT SEM	30 credits
Semester 2
AAP6219	Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice	SPR SEM	15 credits
AAP637	Heritage, Place and Community	SPR SEM	15 credits
HST6042	Presenting the Past: Making History Public	SPR SEM	15 credits
HST6062	Cold War Histories	SPR SEM	15 credits
HST6078 XCannot be taken with: HST6073 HST61012 HST61017	The United States and the Global 1970s	SPR SEM	15 credits
HST6087	Before Facebook: Social Networks in History	SPR SEM	15 credits
HST6092	Women and Slavery in the Antebellum American South	SPR SEM	15 credits
LIT6021	Exchanging Letters: Art and Correspondence in Twentieth-Century American Culture	SPR SEM	30 credits
Full academic year
HST681 + The module is only available to students studying an MA in History.	Work Placement	ACAD YR	15 credits

a student can take unrestricted F7 Level Faculty of Arts and Humanities units to the value of 30 credits.

Core These are a compulsory part of your degree: you cannot change them. units (60 credits)

A student will take

Any Semester
HST6560	Dissertation in Historical Research	GRAD YR	60 credits

A student who has been awarded one hundred and twenty credits in respect of units listed at 1A and B above will be eligible for the award of the Postgraduate Diploma in American History.

A student who has been awarded sixty credits in respect of units listed at 1A and B above will be eligible for the award of the Postgraduate Certificate in American History.

⇐P	-	This module has pre-requisite(s).
P⇒	-	This module is a pre-requisite for other modules.
C	-	This module has co-requisite(s).
X	-	Some modules cannot be studied in combination with this module.
+	-	Additional information about requirements for studying this module.

Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.