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MA History

University of Dundee

Institution
University of Dundee
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
V140
Typical offer
A-level CCC, IB 28

Entry requirements

A level: CCC IB: 28 points, including 5, 5, 4 at higher level Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry).

About this course

MA (Hons) in History. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. In Levels 1 and 2, students study additional humanities or social science subjects alongside history. The programme has links with the University's Archives, Records Management, and Museum Services, enabling first-hand examination of original documents.

Modules

  • Humanities in Practice
  • Introduction to Literary Study
  • Reading the Screen: An Introduction to Film Studies
  • Approaches to Reading
  • Europe and the World, 1450-1800
  • Empires, Nations, and Revolutions, 1800-2000
  • Applied French 1A (Beginner)
  • Applied French 1A (non-beginner)
  • Applied French 1B (Beginner)
  • Applied French 1B (non-beginner)
  • Applied Spanish 1A (Beginner)
  • Applied Spanish 1A (non-beginner)
  • Applied Spanish 1B (Intensive)
  • Applied Spanish 1B (non-beginner)
  • Career Planning Module Online
  • Internship
  • Gender, Sexuality, Culture
  • Documenting Dissent: Power, Protest, and Social Justice in the Twentieth Century
  • Scotland and the Wider World
  • American Culture and Society in Context
  • The Scottish Diaspora, c.1700-1945
  • Reading Seventeenth Century Scotland
  • Making History Today: The Past in the Present
  • The Invasion of America: The Native American Response to the European Colonisation of North America, 1492-1763
  • Under Nazi Occupation: resistance and collaboration in Western Europe
  • Slavery: History, Memory, Legacy
  • Questions of Ulster, 1885 to the present
  • America in the Sixties
  • The Cold War and Africa
  • History Dissertation
  • Revolution in Ireland 1912-23
  • Modern South Africa: Apartheid, African liberation and democracy
  • The Russian Revolution
  • Scotland: Restoration, Revolution and Union, 1660-1707
  • The African American Freedom Struggle, 1890-1974
  • Settling the Trans-Appalachian West, ca. 1774-1830
  • Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Britain
  • Everyday Life in Early Modern Scotland