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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,239 - ≈ € 13,290 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Manchester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Over the last several decades, histories of western countries have been joined by dynamic new schools of history studying Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and other formerly colonized regions. In addition to providing insight into specific national and regional histories, the development offers exciting opportunities for comparative dialogue among historians with different regional focuses. This MA programme is designed to provide students with advanced training in one or more regional historiographies, complementing this training with other thematic or comparative options.
With one of the largest history departments in the U.K., Manchester boasts a wide-ranging group of specialists in such regions as Latin America (Drinot), the Caribbean (Brown, Zacek), India (Ghosh), China and Japan (Zheng and Moore), and Africa (Pierce), as well as scholars of Europe with an interest in empire (Carden-Coyne, Gatrell, Geiger, M. Jones, Taithe, Umbach). Students in the programme in World History have access to rigorous postgraduate training in regional historiographies, as well as a wide range of options.
The John Rylands Library has extensive holdings of relevance to the study of World History as do several local libraries and archives in Manchester and in the North-West. These holdings include, for example, the records of missionaries who travelled to China, the correspondence of merchants who sought out new markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the documentation of migrants who made their way and created new lives in Manchester and its environs. Students interested in developing research projects based on these and other holdings are encouraged to contact the relevant potential supervisors.
World History at Manchester is a highly dynamic research cluster and attracts significant research funding. Recent major international conferences organised by World History staff include: Global Wounds, Cultures of Hygiene and Creole Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, Che's América, Rights and the Human, the annual conference of the British Group in Early American History, and several Society for Caribbean Studies Northern Network seminars.
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Module details The MA in World History combines advanced coursework, research training and research experience. Half of the 180 credits derive from taught courses, a sixth from research training and a third from the dissertation.
The framework of the programme is provided by the required methodology course, "Methodologies of World History." This serves to introduce students to major approaches within the historiography of world history (such as colonial history and migration studies). Students are also required to take at least one of the modules from the World History programme, such as: "Themes, Methods, and Approaches in Latin American History", "Twentieth Century China", "Themes, Methods, and Approaches in African History", and "Colonial Modernity and the Public Sphere", "The British Atlantic World, 1607-1776", and "The (IR)resistible rise of the American Empire, 1941-1955". A wide range of taught options are offered, both within the history subject area and beyond; by permission foreign-language training can be substituted for one of these modules.
Research training centres on the core course, 'Methodologies of World History', supplemented by the School-wide generic SAGE course, which integrates various workshop elements and the preparation of a Research Outline for the proposed MA dissertation.
MA programmes in History at Manchester comprise annually over forty students, and have their own reserved graduate studies centre in the Philip Haworth Library (as well as equivalent school and university level provision), and a graduate and staff common room. There is a graduate-run research seminar.
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Academic entry qualification overview: An Upper Second class honours degree, or the overseas equivalent.
English language: Non-native speakers of English should have at least a score of IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL 600 (paper based) or 250 (computer based).
Other international entry requirements: We accept a range of qualifications from different countries. For these and general requirements including English language see entry requirements from your country.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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