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Compulsory modules

Working with Historical Collections: Sources and Audiences

Get to work directly with historical resources and artefacts. In practical seminars, you’ll focus on how to handle, analyse and present historical items. You’ll learn a range of practical and digital skills including palaeography, bibliographical skills and object analysis, which will often be necessary for working around important historical finds.

Becoming a Historian: Theory and Themes

Learn how historical methodologies are influenced by assumptions and traditions. You’ll expand your knowledge of methodologies employed by historians and gain a critical understanding into the ways that differing approaches can affect results, providing you with important skills to critically examine your own work as a historian.

Becoming a Historian: Theory and Themes in Medieval History

Learn how historical methodologies are influenced by assumptions and traditions. You’ll expand your knowledge of methodologies employed by historians and gain a critical understanding into the ways that differing approaches can affect results, providing you with important skills to critically examine your own work as a medieval historian.

Towards the Dissertation

Prepare for your dissertation and acquire skills for future research projects. From identifying an appropriate topic and preparing a succinct proposal to creating a structure for the dissertation and its bibliography, this module will ensure that your have the expertise to deliver a high quality project.

Dissertation 

Apply the skills and knowledge you’ve gained throughout your degree to a large research project. You’ll be able to pick a topic that you’re passionate about and work closely with an academic specialist to create your own unique piece of historical research. 

Optional modules

History Option One

Hone your expertise and specialise your knowledge with a specific historical case study. Different specialised topics may vary from year to year.

History Option Two

Hone your expertise and specialise your historical knowledge with a specific historical case study. Different specialised topics may vary from year to year. 

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2024/25 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they're informed by the latest research and teaching methods. 

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optionsal modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them.

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