Graduate studies
open day
November 2014
History of Science, Technology and Medicine pathway
FULL-TIME
Semester 1 (Oct-Jan)
Semester 2 (Jan-May)
Major themes in
HSTM
Any HSTM
option
Historiography
Any HSTM
option
Research skills
Vacation (May-Sep)
Dissertation in
HSTM
PART-TIME
First year
Semester 1
Major
themes in
HSTM
Second year
Semester 2
Any HSTM
option
Vacation Semester 3
Historiography
Research
skills
Semester 4
Any HSTM
option
Dissertation in HSTM
Vacation
Option choices, HSTM semester 2/4
• Shaping the Sciences: how disciplines form;
building and keeping professional status; Big
Science and the military-industrial-academic
complex; science and diplomacy
• Making Modern Technology: grand technological
projects and visions; invisible technologies and
infrastructures; national and international
agendas; warfare; information society
• Medicine, Science and Modernity: disease
histories; healthcare institutions; medicine and the
lab; chronic and acute illness; gender and
authority; patient perspectives; global biomedicine
or, by arrangement:
• Science Communication units
• Humanities units from outside CHSTM
Some recent HSTM MSc dissertation titles
•
William Sargant and his role in 1950s psychiatry with a focus on
brainwashing techniques, the false confession and the abolition of the
death penalty
•
W(h)ither Big Science? Reflections on the death of the Superconducting
Super Collider and the life of the Large Hadron Collider
•
Stray dogs in the Victorian city
•
British medical education in the 20th century, centring around George
Pickering's survey and recommendations for change
•
Mill architecture and industrial heritage in Greater Manchester
•
Communication of different therapies for insomnia, both NHS-approved
and alternative, to women in popular sources in the last 20 years
•
Atorvastatin: its journey into and through the UK medical world
•
Radio and scientific careers in the early twentieth century in Britain
•
Educating on AIDS: Conceptual problems with school-based HIV
interventions in Kenya
•
The uses of stage drama in science public engagement work
Medical humanities pathway
FULL-TIME
Semester 1 (Oct-Jan)
Semester 2 (Jan-May)
Vacation (May-Sep)
Major themes in
Med Hum
Medicine,
science and
modernity
Dissertation or
creative
portfolio in
Medical
Humanities
MH methods
30 credits of
option choice
Research skills
PART-TIME
First year
Semester 1
Major
themes in
HSTM
Second year
Semester 2
Medicine,
science and
modernity
Vacation Semester 3
Med Hum
methods
Research
skills
Semester 4
Vacation
30 credits
of option
choice
Dissertation or creative portfolio
MSc Science Communication programme
www.manchester.
ac.uk/chstm
jane.gregory@
manchester.ac.uk
Semester 1
Semester 2
Credit
(*contact hours organised in
three one-day schools)
Credit
(*students take
2 of 4 for
credit)
Summer
Dissertation or
60
Portfolio
Major Themes in
30
HSTM
Science
Communication
Research*
15*
Research and
Communication
Skills
15
Science,
Government and
Policy*
15*
Introduction to
Science
Communication
15
Science, Media and
15*
Journalism*
Total credits
60
Museums and
Events*
15*
Mentored Project
30
60
Credit
60