Modern History

at University of Sheffield

Core modules

You will take three core modules.

You can find out more about staff working on modern history topics on our research strengths page. The exact availability of staff to supervise MA dissertations varies from year to year.
 

• Modernity and Power: Individuals and the State in the Modern World
• Dissertation in History
• Research Presentation for Historians
   

You will choose 75 credits of option modules. You will normally take 30 credits of options in semester one and 45 credits in semester two, including one 30 credit option. Part-time students will normally take 15 credits of option in semester one of the first year, leaving the remaining 15 credits until year two. 
 

This 75 credit selection can include up to 30 credits from the guided list of non-history modules (see guided modules tab).
 

The following list includes the full range of options that we currently offer. A selection of these will be available each year and new modules may be added.
 

• Approaches and Methods in Media History
• Autobiography, Identity and the Self in Muslim South Asia
• Before Facebook: Social Networks in History
• Biopolitics: Medicine, Meaning and Power
• Black Power: Race, Gender, and Liberation in the United States and Beyond
• Cold War Histories
• Debating Cultural Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
• Food and Drink
• History in Fiction
• History on Screen
• Human Rights in Modern History
• Imagining the Republic: Irish Republicanism, 1798-1998
• International Order in the Twentieth Century
• Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life
• Oral History
• Policing the Family: Welfare, Eugenics and Love in Early 20th Century Britain
• Presenting the Past: Making History Public
• Public History and Policy: Theory and Practice
• Race and Racism in Historical Perspective
• Research Skills for Historians
• Sex and Power: The Politics of Women's Liberation in Modern Britain
• Stories of Activism, 1960 to the Present
• The Animal Turn: human and non-human animals in history
• The Global Cold War
• The Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1895-1945
• The United States in Vietnam, 1945-1975
• The U.S. Civil War in Global Context
• Under Attack: The Home Front during the Cold War
• Voices of the Great War: Gender, Experience and Violence in Great Britain and Germany, 1914-1918
• Wikipedia and Medieval History
• Women and Power
• Work Placement
• Worlds of Labour: Working Class Lives in Colonial South Asia

A 2:1 honours degree or equivalent in history or another humanities or social science discipline.
 

You may be asked to supply examples of previous written work.
 

Entry requirements for international students
 

Overall IELTS score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component, or equivalent.

• Home ( annual fee) : £9,300
   
• Overseas ( annual fee) : £20,400
   

The fee listed is for the advertised mode of study. If you're studying for an alternative qualification or via a different mode of study (eg full-time, part-time) then the fee could be different. Due to inflation, the fee for Home students could also increase after your first year of study.

An MA in history will further develop the range of transferable skills at your disposal. You will have the freedom to tailor your research and focus on the skills that are most important to you. We offer modules that are specifically designed to provide you with skills in public history - modules such as Presenting the Past and the work placement, give you real hand-on experience.
 

These kinds of skills are why our graduates are successful in both further study and a wide range of careers - from lecturing and working in the museum and tourist industry to business management, marketing, law and working in the media.