On MA Modern History, you'll add depth and range to your knowledge, in conjunction with the opportunity to hone your skills through an external placement.
The Course Team
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.
Welcome and Induction
Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and the wider University, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.
It is important to check your Course Welcome Week for all the activities you are required to attend as part of your course induction. If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before you arrive to let you know which group you will be in.
In addition, check the Student Events Hub for a range of fun activities. including the Students’ Union Welcome Fair, to help you make friends and live your best CCCU student life.
Your teaching timetable
UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities for a course. If your course is taught in groups, it will display information for all groups, not just the group you will be assigned to.
Your individual student timetable will show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend via MyTimetable. This will be available for when your teaching starts.
Learn more about timetabling for new students including user guides and videos.
Welcome
You will take modules with leading experts in their field on topics that allow you to engage with a wide range of historical topics. Through the opportunity to undertake a placement with an external institution, or complete a research project, you will gain insight into future pathways inside and outside the university. While you are with us, you will be part of a dynamic and supportive postgraduate community, with the opportunity to attend and present at workshops and seminars.
Modules you study with us are:
Themes and sources in modern history
Supervised project
Dissertation
Communicating the past
Activism, propaganda and popular culture
Race, empire, nation and nationalism
The critical scholar
You can see an overview of the modules by visiting the MA Modern History Course Page here.
Study Support
As you embark on your academic journey, you’ll be fully supported to ensure you get the most out of your learning experience. During Induction Week, you’ll take part in specific sessions, meet your module tutors and be introduced to our Virtual Learning Environment, which will be central to your learning, and be informed about the wide range of student support services available, including dedicated mental health and well-being support. At the outset of your course, you’ll be assigned a personal academic tutor who will guide you throughout your studies, offering both academic advice and pastoral support. You’ll also have access to the Learning Hub, an online platform packed with resources to help you develop key academic skills. The hub has been developed by Learning Developers and Learning & Research Librarians with your needs in mind. Here you will find a range of modules with tips to help you develop your study, academic and research skills.
Getting started
You will receive an email in early September with information about a series of induction events where you can meet MA students from across the Humanities and learn more about how to make the most of the opportunities of the course.
These events are optional and there are no mandatory pre-arrival tasks.
Your welcome and induction will be w/c 15 September 2025 - we look forward to meeting you then.
Pre-course reading
- Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain (2021)
- Eric Avila, American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction (2018)
- Helen Carr & Susannah Lipscomb (eds), What Is History, Now? (2021)
It is useful to note that the University Bookshop offers 10% discount on most titles in print and have some price-beating book bundles. They also price match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.
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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