MA History

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £14,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,800

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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International student CAS deposit

Self-funded international applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2500 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. Some applicants will be required to pay a higher deposit. More information on tuition fee deposits .

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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This course surveys the modern history of science, technology and medicine (HSTM), by exploring key issues and themes that have shaped their development, social relations and cultural significance, from roughly the seventeenth century to the present. Analysing these key issues in HSTM introduces you to major historiographical concerns such as relations between professionals and the broader public, the role of STM in nation building, how expertise is both established and contested, the nature and significance of controversies, colonialism and its legacies, and relations between local studies and the ‘big picture’.

As this is a team-taught course drawing on staff research interests, the exact content will vary. However, it will generally include the following:

• Expertise and Trust
• Sex and Gender
• Race
• Sites and Institutions
• STM and the Nation State
• Science and Religion
• Pandemics and Public Health
• Biomedicine and the Public
• Postwar Technology
• Climate Crisis

The unit aims to:

• introduce the key themes and issues in the historical development of science, technology and medicine from the early modern period to the present
• provide an integrated survey of the theoretical and historiographical approaches used in the study of the development of modern STM
• stimulate critical and informed judgment on the development of modern scientific, technological and medical knowledge
• give students a good grasp of the common features and contrasts between the history of science, history of technology and the history of medicine
• enable students to develop and practice the skills of historical research and writing.

Critical Analysis (1000 words) 20%

Essay One (2000 words) 40%

Essay Two (2000 words) 40%

The seminar discussion format of the course gives all students regular opportunities to discuss their ideas with teaching staff. Staff are also available to discuss essay proposals, seminar performance, and general course performance by appointment, on a one-to-one basis. All coursework is double-marked, and essay scripts are returned to the students with both sets of markers’ comments. Examiners’ notes on exam scripts are not normally released, but may be viewed on request.