Programme structure: History (MA) - what's running in 2010/11

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Approaches to History	HISTM2009	20	Mandatory	TB-1
Research Methods	HISTM2010	20	Mandatory	TB-2
Dissertation	HISTM1000	60	Mandatory	AYEAR
Students must choose one Pathway Option from the following:
Research Skills for Medievalists	AFACM1001	20	Optional	TB-1
Themes in Contemporary History	HISTM0014	20	Optional	TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism	HISTM0017	20	Optional	TB-1
Themes in Cultural and Intellectual History	HISTM2014	20	Optional	TB-1
Public History in Theory and Practice	HISTM0023	20	Optional	TB-1
Students must choose a further 60 Credits from the following optional units:
The English Reformation	HISTM0005	20	Optional	TB-1
Introductory Latin	AFACM1003	20	Optional	TB-1
Medieval and Early Modern Colonialism	HISTM0009	20	Optional	TB-2
Academic and Mystical Approaches to God	AFACM1004	20	Optional	TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500)	HISTM0032	20	Optional	TB-1
Everyday Life Under Dictatorship	HISTM0025	20	Optional	TB-2
Politics, Poetics and Places of Memory: Remembering the Holocaust, 1945 to the Present	HISTM1011	20	Optional	TB-1
Public History in Theory and Practice	HISTM0023	20	Optional	TB-1
The End of the Spanish Empire 1770-1898	MODLM1008	20	Optional	TB-2
Persecution and Toleration: Dealing with Difference in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe	HISTM2012	20	Optional	TB-2
Making History Public	HISTM2016	20	Optional	TB-2
Shanghai: Culture, Power and History	HISTM2018	20	Optional	TB-2
Critical Questions in Latin American Historiography	HISPM1103	20	Optional	TB-1
Collaborative Study Unit	HISTM2015	20	Optional	TB-2
Supervised Individual Study	HISTM1019	20	Optional	TB-1
Supervised Individual Study 2	HISTM0038	20	Optional	TB-2
Goodbye Lenin: Culture, Society and Dissent in the later Soviet Union	HISTM2019	20	Optional	TB-2
MA History		180

Progression/award requirements

The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Exit awards

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.

Degree classifications:

An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds. An exit award with Merit or Distinction may be permitted where students are prevented by exceptional circumstances from completing the intended award.

The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:

Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.

** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.

Diploma/certificate stages:

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.