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Contemporary History (MSc)
at University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 25,300
Country Rank#5
Duration24 Months
Score IELTS: 7

Program Overview

Why has the end of the Cold War not inaugurated a more harmonious world order? Do we see the continuation of old rivalries or the birth of a fundamentally different world? Do we still live in a globalised world or are we facing nationalist retrenchment? Is liberal democracy in crisis? Is US power declining and being replaced by new leaders on the world stage?

This MSc allows you to explore such questions critically and analytically while discovering how the recent past shaped the modern world. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the increasingly global experience of humankind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A specialised methodological and historiographical course will help you appreciate the distinctiveness of contemporary history; its use of radio, television, film, and internet-based sources such as Wikileaks; and its methodology. This rigorous skills training will be supplemented by a variety of topical, specialised options, covering virtually every distinctive approach to history (e.g. political, social and economic) and every region on the globe, underlining the increasing globalisation of our recent past.

Course Content
The programme combines methodological and substantive courses with intensive student participation. The analysis of diverse primary source material is essential, as is situating research findings within an established historiographical tradition. You will complete three compulsory courses and select a further three options from a wide range on offer. You will also complete a dissertation.

The compulsory courses are:
- Historical Methodology
- Historical Research: Skills and Sources
- Introduction to Contemporary History
Option courses previously offered include those listed below. Option courses change from year to year and those available when you start your studies may be different from those shown in the list. Nevertheless, these give you a good idea of the range of courses we offer:
- The United States and the Vietnam War: Origins and Repercussions
- The Sixties in the United States
- African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in Modern African History, c. 1880 to 1975
- Islamic History
- Global Environmental History
- Black Activism in Britain since 1800
- An Age of Great Dreams: The 1960s in the United States
- Empire or Continent?: British Foreign Policy in the Era of the Great War
- Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Themes in American Historiography
- The United States and the Cold War
- War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland
- History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985
- Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present
- Genocide in Contemporary History
- Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt and the breakdown of European Civilization
- Citizens and Subjects: concepts of citizenship in modern African intellectual history
- The British Empire in Political Thought
- Revolutions in Modern Europe
- Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960
- Contemporary Scotland
- Gender in the History of the Americas
- A Cultural History of Photography
- China's foreign and security policy: a twentieth-century perspective
- Cinema and Society in Britain
- The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014
Entry Requirement
CBSE All India Senior School Certificate Examination (SSC), CISCE Indian School Certificate (ISC) Standard XII: overall 80% with three subjects at 75%.
Award of Certificate with five subjects at Class XII, with an overall average of 80% or above and minimum 80% in all required subjects (or 85% where we require a grade A at SQA Higher). Grade XII CBSE Applied Mathematics is not accepted to meet a Mathematics subject requirement.
Award of Certificate with five subjects at Class XII, with an overall average of 80% or above and minimum 80% in all required subjects (or 85% where we require a grade A at SQA Higher).
Advanced entry direct into Year 2 of many of our Science and Engineering degree programmes is possible for applicants who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement in the Higher Secondary School Certificate, but only where awarded by CBSE or CISCE. Advanced entry is offered into Year 2 to students from India with the relevant Indian boards. For advanced entry applicants must achieve the award of Certificate with minimum of five subjects at Class XII, with an overall average of 85% or above and minimum 85% in all required subjects as stated in our prospectus.

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£25300 per year

Career Prospect

This is an advanced qualification, valued and respected by employers and also suitable as preparation for a PhD and a long-term academic career. The combination of skills training, specialised seminars, and independent research provides you with transferable skills that will be beneficial whatever path you choose.

Graduates work in related areas such as museums, policy think-tanks, national and international civil services, non-governmental organisations, galleries, libraries and historic trusts. Others enter business, media, public administration or marketing.

Cost Of Studying At University of Edinburgh

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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Contemporary History (MSc) at University of Edinburgh