MA Modern History [V140]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Master of Arts scheme - available from 2012/2013

Duration 1 year

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1

HYM0100

Research Methods and Professional Skills in History

Semester 2

HYM0120

Research Methods and Professional Skills in History

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1

HYM0520

Key Themes in Modern History

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Students must submit a dissertation on a topic relevant to their degree scheme.

Semester 3

HYM1160

Dissertation

or
HAM0160

Traethawd Hir

Year 1 Options

MA students should take a further 40 or 60 credits of appropriate optional modules:

Semester 1

HYM9900

Working with History

HYM5120

Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies

Semester 2

HYM2820

Gerald of Wales

HYM5920

Borders and borderlands in modern Asia

HYM6320

Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020

HYM6220

Science, Place and Victorian Culture

HYM9920

Working with History

WHM1220

Class and Community in Wales 1850 - 1939

Year 1 Options

MA students MUST take at least one appropriate Research training option:

Semester 1

ILM5120

Information and Society

HYM1220

Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences

Part 2 Rules

Contact for this page:

History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE

Telephone Department: +44 01970 621917 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021

Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk