Core modules will help students develop project management skills and extend their critical analytical skills through the planning and writing of a literature review. Students will also learn practical skills and techniques, including locating and retrieving historical material, critiquing primary and secondary sources, and examining and organising historical information. These core modules are taught by experienced, research-active academics with a range of methodological research skills and publications, while students dissertation supervisor will be an innovator in their field of research.
This Master's degree in History at Birkbeck, University of London culminates in the researching and writing of a 30,000-word dissertation on the topic that most interests students, which will allow students to exercise and demonstrate their advanced historical research skills.
This course is ideal for self-motivated and committed students who wish to research and write on a complex, specialised area of historical knowledge that interests them, whether in preparation for historical research at PhD level, professionally or independently.
