Early Modern History

University of Glasgow
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 12 Months History

About this course

This Masters focuses on the late 15th to 18th centuries, providing opportunities to explore social, political, religious and cultural historical themes across wide geographic and chronological ranges in a university with extensive library, museum and archive collections for this period. Experts in Early Modern Scotland, England, Europe, Africa, and the Americas contribute to our teaching. You will take a core course in Research, Resources and Skills alongside other History students and five optional courses.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • Glasgow is an outstanding resource hub for the study of Early Modern History. On campus, the university library holds superb printed and manuscript collections from the medieval to the present. You can also use the Baillie Collection of printed medieval and modern sources in Scottish, Irish and English history. The University’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery provides access to primary source materials in fields such as fine art, numismatics and ethnography.

  • Members of staff teaching on this programme have close links with the city’s world class museums.

  • Early Modern History at Glasgow is a dynamic and supportive research community with an increasingly global perspective, where you’re encouraged to take part in many research led initiatives such as seminar programmes, reading and research groups.

    PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

    -You will take:

    One core course Five optional courses (these courses may include languages offered by other subjects, and (with the permission of the programme convenor) courses offered by other subjects.) You will also produce a dissertation.

    Semester 1: September to December

    Core course

    DOING HISTORY: SOURCES AND SKILLS FOR HISTORIANS Two or three optional courses (which can include, but which are not limited to Early Modern History).

    Early Modern courses running in session 2021-22 within History this semester are:

    HERETICS AND INQUISITORS IN EUROPE,800-1600 MEDIEVAL PALAEOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO READING MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS

    Semester 2: January to March

    Two or three optional courses (which can include but which are not limited to Early Modern History).

    Early Modern courses running in session 2021-22 within History this semester are:

    MILITARY SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF PROTO-GLOBALIZATION, C.1600-C.1800 WORKING WITH MANUSCRIPTS AS HISTORIANS THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

    Other courses offered by History and available to you in include:

    CULTURE, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES ISSUES, IDEOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF MODERN SCOTLAND APPROACHES TO HISTORY (FOR POSTGRADUATES) GENDER, POLITICS AND POWER GENDER, CULTURE AND TEXT THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF INEQUALITIES

    Please note the availability of a particular course depends on student numbers and patterns of staff leave. Not all courses will be available every year.

    Summer: April to September DISSERTATION (MSC HISTORY)

    • Study Options

    This course is available in 4 study options:

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 9 Months

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Glasgow

    Part-time

    Duration: 18 Months

    Qualification: PgDip

    Location: Glasgow

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    4214 Company secretaries and administrators
    2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
    4112 Local government administrative occupations
    2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
    4111 National government administrative occupations
    2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors

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    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Glasgow
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    History

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    University of Glasgow

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