Taught courses

You will take several courses across two semesters of teaching.

Core courses

You will take the following two core courses:

Course nameCredits
Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis20
Core quantitative Data Analysis 1 and 220

Skills courses

In addition you will take a pair of skills courses (ERSC funded students must take the first pair).

Course nameCredits
EITHER 
Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection20
Becoming a confident social science researcher20
OR 
Developing Historical Research20
Historical Methodology20

Optional courses

You will then take two further option courses of your choice, subject to availability. 

Option courses previously offered include those listed below.  Option courses change from year to year and those available when you start your studies will be different from those shown in this representative list.

Course nameCredits
Economic and Social History Courses20
Online History Courses20
Supervised Reading Course (E&SH)20

Teaching and assessment

The courses are mostly taught in small-group seminars. Most courses are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work. Some courses also assess non-written skills.

 

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