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Modern History at University of Glasgow - UCAS

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Course summary

This Masters brings together social and political historians, active in research on topics from the French Revolution to refugees in the 20th century. The programme provides you with thorough research training and a wide set of transferable skills in the conception, design and execution of a research project. WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • Glasgow offers exceptional resources for the historian, including our university museum, The Hunterian, Scotland’s oldest public museum with over a million items, and our library, one of Europe’s oldest and largest university libraries, with extensive collections from the medieval to the present.
  • The Hunterian provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography, while the library offers collections like the Baillie Collection, which contains printed medieval and modern sources on Scottish, Irish, and English history.
  • Our staff are all leaders in their fields and members of Centres such as the:
  • Centre for Gender History
  • Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology
  • Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies
  • Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE You will take:
  • One core course
  • Five optional courses
You will also produce a dissertation. Core Course Doing History: Sources and Skills for Historians Dissertation Dissertation (MSc History) Optional Courses Optional courses within History available include: Issues, Ideologies And Institutions Of Modern Scotland Gender, Politics And Power Gender, Culture and Text Military Scotland in the Age of Proto-globalization, c.1600-c.1800 Making a Living: Work, Gender and Society 1700-1850 Scottish Radicalism 1848-1950 A 'New Form of Slavery'?: Indentured Labour in Post-Slavery Caribbean Societies, c. 1836-1917 Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Political Violence With permission, you can also take courses from other subjects in the College of Arts & Humanities and beyond. Please note the availability of a particular course depends on student numbers and patterns of staff leave. Not all courses will be available every year.

How to apply

International applicants

International applicant information can be found via gla.ac.uk by searching for 'international'. Classes start September 2021 and you may be expected to attend induction sessions the week before.

Entry requirements

2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in History or Politics or International Relations or Archaeology or Archives/Library Studies. We may also accept degrees in other subjects. Work experience may be considered in lieu of qualifications. A personal statement is required for this programme.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

All fees are published on the University of Glasgow website. https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/feesandfunding/

Sponsorship information

Sponsorship and funding information can be found via gla.ac.uk by searching for 'scholarships'.

Modern History at University of Glasgow - UCAS