Course Essentials
Welcome to MA History! Your first trimester will see you grappling with all manner of historical topics, with our supportive staff on hand to steer you through. We’re all looking forward to meeting you; you should meet everyone through your first trimester.
Mitch Goodrum
Course Director
Your Teaching Timetable
Teaching for your course will begin w.c 21 September 2026.
To help you plan your first few weeks, you can view an overview of the teaching activities for your course.
View your first trimester teaching timetable.
On a mobile device, click the arrow next to “Search” at the top right of the page to view your timetable.
If your course is taught in groups, the overview will show activities for all groups. You will only need to attend sessions for your allocated group.
Once teaching begins, your individual timetable and group allocation will be available in MyTimetable provided you have completed online registration and created your computing account.
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Your Semester 1 Modules |
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Communicating the Past |
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History in Practice |
Key dates
Academic Calendar: Trimesters [15 Week]
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2025-26 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.
Getting started
In your first trimester with us, you’ll think about History in two different ways.
In Communicating the Past, you’ll consider the way we talk about history as well as the history itself, analysing pieces of what we might term popular history before making your own.
In History in Practice, you’ll engage with three research papers relevant to the interests of staff, who’ll guide you through the subject and the process of attending a paper.
In this way, you’ll be part of a community of historians internally and externally, thinking about the discipline in complex ways that will enhance your own practice.
Teaching will therefore be a mix of lectures, seminar discussion, practical workshops, and research papers, with all the learning resources required provided through your virtual learning environment.
Your Must Do Tasks
Once you have been invited to register for your course, there are some key tasks you'll need to complete to make sure you are ready to become a CCCU student.
Registration invitations are sent towards the end of August. We'll send yours to the email address you used when you applied, so please check this inbox regularly to make sure you don't miss any important information.
Pre-course reading
All required reading will be provided once you begin the course.
The best use of your time and energy before arrival is in reading some historical work that you like and thinking critically about why:
- How does it go about its analysis?
- Is it the topic, and is this something you want to look at further?
Thinking through things critically in this way will help you to come to greater awareness of how the discipline works and how you fit within it.
International student success programme
International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.
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