Assessment method

Buckingham prides itself on the focused and high-quality teaching that it provides to students. With one of the most favourable staff-to-student ratios in the United Kingdom, the University is able to give students individualised supervision tailored to their needs. Its small-group seminars have therefore been a strength of the University from its founding. The MA in Migration History employs a stimulating variety of teaching strategies, including traditional lectures and seminar discussions, workshops with partner institutions, class visits to relevant cultural institutions and archive collections, and a week-long study trip to Paris. A number of core modules are designed to instil skills crucial to the study of migration history and provide a comprehensive grounding in the history of emigration and immigration in the British Isles. Meanwhile, students can tailor their studies to their particular interests by choosing among optional modules on subjects such as the history of political and religious asylum, international cultural transmission, and the intersection of global empire and global movement. In the spring, students make a week-long study visit to Paris, to gain a further comparative and international perspective on these subjects, and begin work on their dissertations. The dissertation, submitted at the end of the summer, will allow students to make a serious and distinct contribution to the rapidly growing field of Migration History. For more details, please feel free to contact the Programme Director Thomas Jones: [email protected].