MA History of Ideas

at Birkbeck University of London

COMPULSORY MODULE

• Mastering Historical Research: Birkbeck Approaches

INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES

• Ancient Knowledge

• Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender: Connecting the Conversation

• Archives and Memory

• Barbarians, monsters and other Others: encountering the Other, c.200-1000

• Britain and Germany: The History of a Relationship, 1815-1990

• Capitalism: Ideas, Systems, Practices

• China and the West: Encounters

• Civil Society: Ideas, Practices and Dilemmas in the Modern World, 17th Century to the Present

• Contested Past, Troubled Present: Britain and Ireland since 1800 - Religion in Society and Politics

• Crescent of Crisis: The Middle East and the Balkans from the Ottomans to Today

• Cultural History of War in Britain and America between the First World War and the Conflict in Vietnam

• Digging for China: A Political, Cultural and Social History of Chinese Archaeology

• Empires in Modern East Asia

• Gender in Britain

• Globalisation and the Rise of the Modern Consumer

• Globalisation: A Short Historical Introduction

• Imagined Landscapes of the Middle Ages

• Italy and the "New" European Right, 1945-present

• Jews and Antisemitism in Modern Europe: Histories and Approaches

• Madness and its Meanings

• Magic, Science and Religion in the Renaissance

• Me, Myself and You: Histories of Self and Belonging, 1500 to the 21st Century

• Modern Europe and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, Blacks

• Monastic Lives in Medieval England

• Out of Ashes: Europe, 1945 to the 1960s

• Politics and Islam

• Queens and empresses 300-1000

• Race and the Victorians

• Rethinking the Cold War

• Rome in Britain: Receptions of Antiquity and the Grand Tour

• Technology, Modernity and the Nation: Britain and Germany, 1880 to 1930

• The Cold War Goes Pop! Visualizing the Cold War through European Films and Comics

• The Making of Modern Societies: Britain and Europe, c.1500-c.1750

• The Politics of the Past: Heritage in a Changing World

• The Science of Progress: Darwin, Evolution and the Making of Modernity

• The Two Irelands 1911-1998

• The Victorian Communication Revolution

• To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistories

• Venice and Istanbul, 1453-1797

• Vice and the Victorians: Moral and social reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

At least a second-class honours degree, with good supporting references.

We offer a one-year Graduate Certificate in History, which can be used as a conversion course if you want to study history at postgraduate level but have a degree in a significantly different discipline.

Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.

On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this course is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests and at least 7.0 in writing.

• Full-time home students: £9030 pa

• Full-time international students: £16380 pa

Graduates can pursue career paths in research and archiving, education, the heritage industry, publishing, journalism and the media, and the charity sector. Possible professions include:

• historian

• higher education lecturer

• archivist

• journalist

• heritage manager

• politician’s assistant

• academic librarian

• museum/gallery curator.