Course summary
The MRes provides excellent preparation for study at MPhil/PhD level for students with a defined research topic, but is also a degree in its own right. The programme is primarily assessed by a 30,000-word dissertation on your chosen topic, but also incorporates two taught courses:
- Explorations and Debates in History investigates the ways historians have conceptualised and contested historical practice in the modern and early modern periods.
- Explorations and Debates in Queer History explores experiences, articulations and understandings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and desires across period and region from medieval and early modern Europe to the present.
- Explorations and Debates in Black British History explores experiences, articulations and understandings of people of African descent and origin within a British context from the early modern period through to the present.
- Research Skills develops expertise in a variety of methodologies including the use of oral, visual and material, as well as textual, sources.
Assessment method
You'll be assessed by two 2,000- and one 4,000-word essays, and a 30,000-word dissertation. The dissertation may be followed by a viva voce.
Entry requirements
You should normally have, or expect to gain, an upper second class undergraduate degree in a humanities or social science subject, or be qualified by previous experience and able to demonstrate the ability to work at postgraduate level. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time students is half the full-time fee quoted.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW