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History at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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7Dec
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Postgraduate

Course summary

The MA History is innovative, creative, free-thinking, stimulating, diverse and challenging – everything that is distinctive about history at Goldsmiths. Why study MA History at Goldsmiths

  • MA History is thematic and interdisciplinary. It has a focus on historical theory and methods, and European modern and early modern history including non-traditional military history, queer history and Black British History.
  • You will develop specific subject interests through a range of optional modules and the dissertation.
  • Your learning will be supported by peers and one-to-one sessions with tutors and supervisors.
  • You will undertake an independent research dissertation on a theme of personal interest.
  • You will have the opportunity to organise and present your work at an internal departmental postgraduate conference alongside students from other MA programmes.
  • You will have the opportunity to study module options offered by other institutions part of the University of London.

Modules

Compulsory modules You take the following two compulsory modules: Explorations and Debates in History 30 credits Research Skills 30 credits Option modules You also take two thematic option modules. You could: choose both options from those offered by the Department of History choose one departmental option and another from a different Goldsmiths department choose one departmental option and another from the list of 30+ options available each year in other History departments that participate in the University of London MA Intercollegiate Sharing Scheme Dissertation You will begin work on your dissertation in the second term. In the third term, you will participate in the dissertation conference and will then complete your work over the summer. Your dissertation is 60 credits of your overall mark. *Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Assessment method

15,000-word dissertation, based on primary research.

Entry requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a humanities or social science subject. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have 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

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

Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time students is half the full-time fee quoted.
History at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS