Postgraduate Modular Credit Scheme (PMCS) in History

This is a postgraduate teaching scheme for those who wish to study one or more ‘stand-alone’ MA modules rather than the whole MA in History programme. If you wish to develop your research skills and expand your knowledge of any of the subjects covered by the courses available on the MA in History, the PMCS is for you. A modular credit achieved as part of the PMCS allows you to take fewer courses as part of the MA, but the overall grade for an MA will be calculated only using those grades achieved while registered on the MA. Please note that the credit must be relevant to the MA programme applied for and the content previously studied similar to the content of the MA course which is being dropped from study

Each MA module is taught for one term only. The length of the programme can range from one term (if you apply for one or more MA modules which are taught in the same term, Autumn or Spring) to two terms, if you wish to attend two or more MA modules which are taught in different terms.

Entrance requirements

You should normally have, or expect to gain, a single- or joint Hons History degree or have relevant work/life experience. If your first language is not English, please check our English Language requirements.

What can you study?

You will be able to study any of the available MA courses in the Department of History (for courses available in 2011/12, please see below). These courses adopt a thematic and interdisciplinary approach to the subjects they examine and are offered from the Department’s academic staff expertise whose research interests span the histories of Britain, East and West Europe, South Asia and Africa. Our focus is primary research and we encourage students to follow their own historical interests. All courses are based on the tutor’s current research.

Please see staff research interests.

Available courses also include the two compulsory courses of the MA in History:

1. Explorations and Debates in History: this course investigates the ways historians have conceptualised and contested historical practice in the modern and early modern periods.
2. Research Skills: this course develops expertise in a variety of methodologies, including the use of oral, visual, material and textual, sources.

All MA courses develop a range of transferable skills which are highly valued in the job market. These include advanced research and analytical expertise; increased independence of thought; the ability to marshal, evaluate and communicate, in written and oral form, complex information and ideas; project management; teamwork and workshop organisation.

For further information please contact the PG Coordinator Daniel Fraser D.Fraser@gold.ac.uk