MA History and Politics
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 Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Historical Research. Modules cover early modern to contemporary history across the British Isles, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and India. At Levels 3 and 4, students can specialise from optional modules on Russian, Irish, and Middle Eastern politics, nations and nationalism, and human rights.
Modules
- Humanities in Practice
- Politics and Public Policy
- Global Challenges
- 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)
- International Relations
- Comparative Politics
- Career Planning Module Online
- Internship
- Documenting Dissent: Power, Protest, and Social Justice in the Twentieth Century
- Scotland and the Wider World
- American Culture and Society in Context
- Research Methods in Human Geography and Politics
- Cities: People, Places and Conflict
- 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
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- The Politics of the United Nations
- Nations and Nationalism
- British Politics
- Russian Politics
- Directed Reading on Research Design
- European Union Politics
- Cities: People, Places and Conflict (Advanced)
- 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
- Film and History
- Settling the Trans-Appalachian West, ca. 1774-1830
- Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Britain
- Everyday Life in Early Modern Scotland
- Comparative Constitutional Law (Advanced)
- Politics and International Relations Dissertation
- Politics of the Middle East
- Scottish Politics and Policy
- European Union Politics (Advanced)
- Greening Politics
- British Politics (Advanced)
- Human Rights Advocacy Internship
- Nations and Nationalism (advanced)
- The Politics of the United Nations (Advanced)