MA in History

The MA in History provides a unique range of options in the history of the region from the early modern period to the present. The SSEES area covers lands where mighty empires and many nations and peoples have interacted and competed over the centuries: the Russian Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, the German Empire, and their successor states. You are encouraged to choose a range of courses that is as diverse in geography as it is varied in approach. The MA programme is especially rich in courses exploring the relationship between power and culture. Several methods courses are available, including Methods of area studies research (MASR).

• Compulsory Dissertation (60 credits)

• Historical Methods and Approaches (20 credits) Dr Richard Butterwick and others

• A further 60 credits of options chosen from the following:
  • MASR I: Cultural and Historical Studies (10 credits) Dr Zoran Milutinović and others
  • MASR I: Introduction to Qualitative Methods (10 credits) Dr Eric Gordy
  • MASR I: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (10 credits) Dr Allan Sikk
  • MASR I: Theory and Practice of Social Research (10 credits) Dr Eugene Nivorozhkin
  • Research Skills for Area Studies (0 credits) Dr Titus Hjelm
  • Advanced Qualitative Methods (20 credits) Dr Christopher Gerry
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies: Between Post-Communism and Post-Modernism (20 credits) Dr Polly Jones and others
  • Between 'Permitted Dissent' and Dissidence: Accommodation, Resistance and Protest in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Intelligentsia (20 credits) Dr Polly Jones
  • Beyond Stereotypes: The Jews in Polish Culture (20 credits) Dr Katarzyna Zechenter
  • Cities in Eastern Europe (20 credits) Dr Ger Duijzings
  • The Crisis Zone: Central Europe 1900-1990 (40 credits) Prof. Martyn Rady
  • Cultural Anthropology of South-Eastern Europe (20 credits) Dr Ger Duijzings
  • Culture, Politics and Everyday Life in Central and Eastern Europe from Stalin to the Present: All Quiet on the Eastern Front (20 credits) Dr Peter Zusi and others
  • Empires, Nationalism and Communism: States and Societies of Southeast Europe (20 credits) Dr Eric Gordy
  • Gender and Sexuality in Modern Russian Culture (20 credits) Dr Seth Graham
  • History, Myth and Nation in South-Eastern Europe (40 credits)
  • How to Read/Interpret Texts: Introduction to Hermeneutics (20 credits) Dr Zoran Milutinović
  • Isolate and Punish: Exile, Prison and Hard Labour in Russian Literature (40 credits) Dr Sarah Young
  • Little Hitlers? Right Radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1900-1945 (20 credits) Dr Rebecca Haynes
    
  • The Making of Modern Ukraine (40 credits) Dr Andrew Wilson
    
  • 'Metropolis': History of Berlin, 1871-1990 (20 credits) Dr Egbert Klautke
  • Fashion, Folly and the Fatherland in Polish Culture, 1764-1834 (20 credits) Dr Richard Butterwick
  • Politics of Southeast Europe Since 1990 (20 credits) Dr Eric Gordy
  • The Politics of Change in the Baltic States (20 credits) Dr Richard Mole and Dr Allan Sikk
  • Religion in South-East Europe: From the Age of Empires to Post-Communism (20 credits) Dr Bojan Aleksov
  • Security, Identity, Polarity (20 credits) Dr Felix Ciută
  • The Self and the World: Theoretical Approaches to Travel Writing (20 credits) Dr Wendy Bracewell
  • Soviet Cinema and Society from the Khrushchev 'Thaw' to the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The End of the Radiant Future (20 credits) Dr Phil Cavendish
  • The Soviet Cultural Experiment I, 1917-1945 (20 credits) Dr Kristin Roth-Ey
  • The Soviet Cultural Experiment II, 1945-1991 (20 credits) Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (not running 2011-12)
  • The Soviet Project: Remaking 'Man' in Revolutionary Russia (20 credits) Dr Susan Morrissey
  • Transnational Cultural Exchange (20 credits) Dr Wendy Bracewell
  • Visions of Power: Art and Rulership in Pre-Modern Russia (20 credits) Dr Sergei Bogatyrev
  • Walter Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History, Politics (20 credits) Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
  • Directed Reading Course (20 or 40 credits)
    

• A further 40 credits chosen from: the above list, or from another MA degree in SSEES, UCL or the University of London, or the MRes, or one of the available languages, subject to the Programme Tutor's approval.

N.B. Not all courses are guaranteed to run in any one year. New ones may be added to the list. Contact the Graduate Administrator for further information.

Normally an upper second-class honours degree or equivalent, although we shall consider applicants with high lower second-class honours degrees or equivalent on their merits. For papers in certain course options, appropriate background knowledge in the relevant subject is expected and there are special language requirements for certain papers.

Non-native English speakers should achieve a score of 7.0 overall and at least 6.0 in each element of the IELTS test.

 
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This page last modified Tuesday 26 July 2011.