MA History
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in History, focusing on the study of the past across medieval, early modern, and modern periods. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme culminates in a final-year undergraduate dissertation requiring a major research undertaking based on primary and secondary material.
Modules
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Making History
- Thinking History
- Architecture and Power
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Painting in Tudor and Early Stuart England
- History in Practice
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History
- Architecture and Power
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Special Sub: Enlightenment Compared: Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe
- Special Sub.: Britain and Revolutionary Russia 1917 - 1924
- Special Sub: the Child as Subject in the British World
- Spec Sub: Court Society in Late Medieval Europe (C. 1300 – C. 1500)
- Special Sub:european Constitutional Monarchies in the Long 19thcentury
- Special Subject: History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- Special Subject: Myths of the North