MA History
Information
Booklet
2015/16
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history
Congratulations and welcome to your Master’s degree in History at the
University of Nottingham.
The following booklet contains the information to get you started on your
course here at Nottingham:
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PG Week One timetables
Seminar teaching timetable
Registering / University Card
Module outlines
Useful Contact information
Support for disabled postgraduate students
Edited campus map
Please feel free to contact either me, or the administrator Rachel Fox, if you
have any questions.
Welcome to the Department of History and we are all looking forward to
meeting and working with you. I hope you enjoy your programme and wish
you every success.
David Laven
Director, Taught Postgraduate Studies
Department of History
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Week One Timetable
Activit
y
9am – 10am
10am – 11am
Coffee
morning
Hum A2
ALL
11am – 12pm
12pm – 1pm
1pm – 2pm
4pm – 5pm
Hum A3
History PG lunch
LG B13
HIST
History PGT induction
LG A18/19
Information session for
optional modules
LG B13
Registration
HIST
3pm – 4pm
School PG welcome
MON
TUE
2pm – 3pm
Temp. Sports
Centre
Graduate School
A01/02 Highfield House
WED
ALL
Welcome for
PGT students
Opportunities
for part-time
work
Health Centre registration
Great Hall and Senate Chamber, Trent Building
THURS
ALL
Graduate School coffee and
cake
Social Sciences and Arts Graduate
Centre, B01 Highfield House
FRI
HIST
Module Sign-up
LG A2B
School PGT IS
session
Humanities PG drinks
and social
Hums A3
Humanities Atrium
V14581/82
Intro. Session
LG A18/19
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University of Nottingham
School of Humanities
Welcome for Masters Students
21 September 2015, 10.30am – 12.15pm
Humanities Building
PROGRAMME
10.30am
Meet and Greet (Room A2)
Refreshments available
Room A3
11.00am
Welcome to the School of Humanities
Dr Mark Bradley, School Director of Postgraduate Teaching
Dr Carly Crouch, School Director of Postgraduate Research
11.15am
Introduction to the Taught Courses and Research offices
Ruth Hickling, Taught Courses Officer, and Tracy Sisson, School and
Research Administration Officer
11.25am
Introduction to the Digital Humanities Centre
Matt Davies, Manager of the DHC
11.35am
Disability Support
Charlotte Halls, Student Support Administrator
11.40am
Student View
Bethany Marsh (History), Life as a Masters student
11.45am
PGT Features
Dr Mark Bradley, School Director of Postgraduate Teaching
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University of Nottingham
Department of History
MA History Welcome
Monday, 21 September 2015, 12.30pm – 3.30pm
Lenton Grove A18/19 (unless otherwise specified)
PROGRAMME
12.30pm
Buffet Lunch
For both PGTs and PGRs
2.00pm
Welcome to the Department of History
Ross Balzaretti, Head of Department
2.15pm
MA History Overview
David Laven, Director of PGT Studies
3.15pm
MA History Administration
Rachel Fox, MA administrator
3.30pm
Finish
B13
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Registering
All students must register with the University when they first begin their studies and again at the
beginning of each academic session. All students need to register online via the Portal; new full-time
students will also need to confirm their attendance in person. Please note, you must have met all
the conditions of your offer (including any requirements to provide original or attested proof of
previous qualifications) before you will be fully registered. Failure to register may result in changing
your start date or cancelling your course.
New students will be able to register online from 1 September. You should use your applicant
username and password to access the Portal. Once in the portal you should navigate to the 'Next
Steps' tab and then use the 'start online registration' option under the 'My Details' section. If you do
not have an applicant username and password, or have forgotten what they are, please contact the
Admissions Office on +44(0)115 95 14749.
The main registration event, where new full-time students will confirm their attendance in person,
will take place on 22 September in the Temporary Sports Hall between 9.30am and 10.30am.
International students will also have the opportunity to confirm their attendance in person during
the Welcome Week and if they do this, they will not need to attend the Sports Centre event the
following week.
All students are expected to complete their registration within two weeks of their course start date
or a late registration fee may be charged. For standard starters the deadline will be 2 October.
Standard start international students must complete registration and have arrived in Nottingham by
12noon on Monday 12 October at the latest or they may not be accepted onto their course.
University Card
Once you are confirmed as a student and have an email on file, you will be emailed with a link to the
application web site. This email will include your login and password. If you do not receive this email
then you should contact the University Card team for assistance (universitycard@nottingham.ac.uk
or 0115 9515759).
This process is only applicable if you have never before applied for a University Card. If you have
previously held a University card and need a replacement, then you need to apply for a Replacement
Card instead.
Once you have applied for your first card online it will be produced within 3-5 days. If you are a
current student then your card will be available for collection from your school office. If you are a
new student and have uploaded your photo prior to registration then your card will be available for
collection at registration.
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The University of Nottingham Health Service
The Department of Health strongly recommends that all students register with a health centre
while studying at university. The University of Nottingham is able to offer students the
opportunity to register with its Health Centre on campus. The Centre caters specifically for
University students and staff and offers a full range of NHS services.
All new students are invited to attend the registration sessions being held in the Great Hall and
Senate Chamber in the Trent Building. Students should be prepared to spend at least thirty
minutes to complete Health Centre registration.
Any student with regular access to University Park can register with the Health Centre. Students
who live outside the practice catchment area (below) can register with the practice as ‘out of area’
patients, which entitles them to the same care as patients who live within the catchment area.
However, if you require a home visit this will be undertaken by a separate service.
Non-EU students wishing to register with the Health Centre must also provide a letter
confirming the length of their course. This is to satisfy the NHS requirement that they are
studying in the UK for more than six months.
Registration forms
Please bring the forms with you when registering with the Health Centre.
If you do not have them you will have to complete them again from memory which may not provide
us with information that affects your medical care.
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Course
Structure
Module
Choice
2015-16
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The programme is studied over 12 months full-time and no fewer than 24 and not more than 36
months part-time. The dissertation is assessed at the end of the summer period.
This is a 180 credit course consisting of two compulsory elements:
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Research Methods [V14481] (30 credits) – taken during the Autumn semester (part-time
students will take this during the Autumn semester of their second year).

MA Dissertation in History [V14529] (60 credits) – pursued throughout the year but
completed during the Summer Semester.
Optional modules consist of 90 credits, 30 of which may be taken from outside the Department of
History with the permission of the History PGT Director.
Full-time students will normally take 60 credits per semester and then complete the 60 credit
dissertation during the summer months. However, students may take a maximum of 70 and a
minimum of 50 credits in each semester prior to completing their dissertation.
Students must take at least 150 credits at level 4, including the compulsory modules (90 credits).
2015-16 Dates
Monday 21 September
Monday 28 September
Friday 11 December
Monday 11 January
Saturday 23 January
Monday 25 January
Friday 18 March
Monday 18 April
Friday 17 June
Wednesday 31 August
Start of Autumn Term and Autumn Semester
Start of Teaching
Autumn Term Ends
Spring Term starts
Autumn Semester ends
Spring Semester starts
Spring Term Ends
Summer Term Starts
Summer Term and Spring Semester Ends
Dissertation Deadline
Choosing Your Modules
The official module choice form will be available during the Welcome Week. This can then be
completed and submitted to Dr David Laven on Friday 25 September in Lenton Grove A2b, between
9.00am and 12.00pm. Modules will run with a minimum of five students, and a maximum of 10.
We are running a session on Tuesday 22 September in which convenors will present a more detailed
overview of their modules, and also give you a chance to raise any questions you may have.
Catalogue of Modules: http://modulecatalogue.nottingham.ac.uk/nottingham/.
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History MA Seminar Timetable 2015/16
9am – 10am
MON
10am – 11am
11am-12pm
V14474/V14568
Exploring English Identity
UP-LENG-A18
2-12
1pm –
2pm
12pm – 1pm
V14481/V14558
Research Methods
UP-WILL-MACHICADO
2-12
2pm – 3pm
3pm – 4pm
4pm – 5pm
V14450/V14500
Heresy and Religious Dissent
UP-LENG-B14
19-26, 31-33
V14490/V14595
(Mis)Perceptions of the Other
UP-LENG-B13
19-26, 31-33
TUES
WED
V14559
Latin and Palaeography
UP-HUMS-A21
19-27, 32-34
V14420/V14507
The 1960s in Europe
UP-HUMS-A1
19-27, 32-34
2-12
V14543/V14556
Power and Authority in the Medieval
World**
UP-WILL-MACHICADO
2-12
THUR
FRI
V14481/V14558
Research Methods
UP-WILL-MACHICADO
V14528/V14574
Memory and Social Change
UP-LENG-A18
19-26, 31-33
V14581/V14582
Empires and Imperialisms
UP-LENG-A19
2-12
V14543/V14556
Power and Authority in the
Medieval World**
UP-LENG-B13
2-12
V14460/V14560
Foreign Policy and Appeasement
UP-WILL-MACHICADO
19-26, 31-33
V14559
Latin and Palaeography
UP-LENG-A19
19-27, 32-34
V14583
People, Landscape and Environment
UP-LENG-A19
2-12
**Teaching for V14543/V14556 will take place in either of these slots (one per week)
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AUTUMN SEMESTER (60 credits)
Compulsory:
V14481 – RESEARCH METHODS IN HISTORY
V14558 – RESEARCH METHODS IN HISTORY
Convenor: David Laven
Contributors: Spencer Mawby, Ross Balzaretti, Karen Adler, Harry Cocks
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: The module has two purposes. The first is to consider the influence of
eminent writers, thinkers, and theorists upon historical (and other) scholarly research. The authors
examined change on an annual basis, and the aim is not to suggest the existence of a canon. This
year the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Pierre Nora, Pierre Bourdieu will
be examined. As such the content cuts across divides of chronology and genre in order to analyse
the commonalities and differences in the way historians and social scientists think about their work.
In the seminars, students will undertake a close reading and discussion of a seminal work by one of
the authors, followed, in the subsequent seminar, by an evaluation of the impact of the work upon
historical writing and historical method.
The second purpose of the module is to develop students’ research methods and to hone the
approaches required in advanced historical research. These will include bibliographical searching,
locating primary sources, writing research proposals and other practical techniques necessary for
historical research. Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of archives, making use of the
holdings of university’s own Archives and Special Collections.
Part-time students will take this compulsory module in their second year.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
1
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
1 hour
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word book review
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word book review
30cr
20cr
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Options:
V14543 – POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
V14556 – POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Convenor: Claire Taylor
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: The module's exact content will change each year according to the seminar
topics offered by those staff involved in its delivery. The programme will, therefore, reflect the
research interests and specialisms of contributing staff as well as providing an insight into some of
the conceptual issues relating to power and authority in relation to the Middle Ages and its
historiography.
Programme example:
Session 1: Introduction
Sessions 2-8: Seminar topics from a selection including:
 Ideologies of power in Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards
 Power and authority in early-medieval Italian wills
 The Peasants' Revolt: Letters of the insurgents and Thomas Walsingham
 Art and authority: the Codex Amiatinus
 The 'feudal revolution' of c.1000
 The Pope & the Inquisition
 Heresy Trial records in 15th and 16th-century England
 …plus others.
Teaching for this module will take place once at week in one of two locations (see seminar
timetable).
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Type
Weighting
Coursework 90%
Coursework 10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word source
analysis
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word source
analysis
30 cr
20 cr
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V14568 – EXPLORING ENGLISH IDENTITY
V14474 – EXPLORING ENGLISH IDENTITY
Convenor: Harry Cocks
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: Recent historians have been conscious of English identity not as a stable
phenomenon that needs to be described, but rather as an artificial historical construct, ambiguous,
hotly debated and subject to regular change and revision. This module examines the ways in which
that identity has been constructed in different periods, while keeping an eye on how, in the present
day, those periods themselves have been used to create an ‘historic’ sense of English identity.
Among the themes to be considered will be the relationship between Britishness and Englishness,
and the ways in which the promotion of identity has depended upon ideas of inclusion and
exclusion. Themes for analysis which transcend seminars include consideration of race, religion,
culture and politics in the making and representation of English national identities.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Coursework
Coursework
Weighting
70%
30%
Type
Coursework
Coursework
Weighting
90 %
10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word book review
or source analysis
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word book review
or source analysis
30 cr
20 cr
V14583 – PEOPLE, LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE 15 Credits
Convenor: Chrysanthi Gallou (Archaeology)
Contributors: Conor Cunningham (Theology), Alison Milbank (Theology), Nicholas Alfrey (History of
Art), Lara Pucci (History of Art), Neil Sinclair (Philosophy), Dean Blackburn (History)
Summary of Content: This module examines various ways humans have understood and conceived
of landscape and their environment. The module is taught by a series of case studies covering
different Humanities disciplines, including the study of physis and techne in the prehistoric Aegean
world; the fairies, monsters and green men of Gothic literature; ideas of landscape and environment
in religion and Darwinism; the visual culture and representations of landscape in English and French
Romantic Art and Cultural Geography; the role of landscape in the construction of memory;
contested perceptions of what 'wilderness' is; and how human beings interact with the natural world
from an ethical, philosophical, intellectual and political perspective. The module is team taught. The
objective of the module is to allow students to reflect critically upon, and contextualise,
environmental issues with a heightened understanding of humans’ cultural understanding of their
environment.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Details
1 x 3,000 word essay
Coursework 30%
Presentation plus 1,000-word
presentation report
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V14581 – EMPIRES AND IMPERIALISMS: FROM THE AGE OF EXPLORATION TO
30 Credits
DECOLONISATION
V14582 – EMPIRES AND IMPERIALISMS: FROM THE AGE OF EXPLORATION TO
20 Credits
DECOLONISATION
Convenor: Anna Greenwood
Contributors: Spencer Mawby, David Gehring, Onni Gust, Sascha Auerbach, Sue Townsend
Summary of Content: This module examines, from a variety of perspectives, the historical role
imperial power has played in the political, social and economic construction of the world. Organised
around five fortnightly themes, the module commences by considering the rise and expansion of the
British Empire from the Tudor period and ends by discussing some of the nationalist uprisings which
resulted in the collapse of the Victorian Empire. It takes case studies from Africa, India, Japan, West
Indies, Middle East and America.
Please note that there will be an introductory session for this module on Friday 25th September,
between 1pm and 2pm in Lenton Grove A18.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
Presentation plus 2,000-word
presentation report
Type
Weighting
Coursework 80%
Coursework 20%
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
Presentation plus 1,000-word
presentation report
30 cr
20 cr
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SPRING SEMESTER (60 credits)
Options:
V14420 – THE 1960S IN EUROPE AND AMERICA: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
V14507 – THE 1960S IN EUROPE AND AMERICA: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Convenor: Nick Thomas
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: This module explores the historiography of 1960s social and cultural change
with reference to the problems of historical evidence, memory, interpretation, authentication and
the political uses of history. The 1960s represent one of the most controversial periods of modern
history. Through English-language and some translated sources this module will analyse and
reappraise the heavily politicised historiography on the 1960s.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Activity
Seminar
Number per
week
1
Type
Coursework
Coursework
Type
Coursework
Coursework
Weighting
70%
30%
Weighting
90%
10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word book review
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word book review
V14559 – LATIN AND PALAEOGRAPHY
Convenor: Gwilym Dodd
Contributors: Ross Balzaretti, Claire Taylor, Nick Wilshire
30 cr
20 cr
30 Credits
Summary of Content: The module teaches the two essential skills required for medieval historical
research: beginner’s Latin and Palaeography. The Latin component will introduce students who have
not studied the language before to Latin of the sort used in medieval documents. It is a basic
introductory course that systematically progresses through aspects of Latin grammar, syntax and
vocabulary that will allow students to begin to translate medieval Latin documents. This will be
supplemented by studying typical medieval documents available in an edited format. The ability to
read early manuscripts is a fundamental skill for all those interested in researching the medieval
period. The Palaeography component will introduce students to the various types of handwriting
used in medieval documents. It will enable students to begin to read these documents in their
unedited, manuscript forms.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Method of Assessment
Activity
Seminar
Number
per week
2
Type
Practical
Weighting
50%
In class Exam
(Written)
50%
Duration
Further Details
1hr 30min
20 tutor-led hours
Details
2 x take-away transcription exercises
totalling 600 words
2 x 50 minute written class tests,
translating Latin documents
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V14574 – MEMORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN EUROPE
V14528 – MEMORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN EUROPE
Convenors: Christian Haase, Dan Hucker
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: This module is designed to enhance students' understanding of various
conceptual approaches to the study of modern history. Following a chronological approach, this
module will use specific case studies as prisms for the examination of common themes, notably
memory, identity, and social change. A transnational perspective will be employed to explore the
construction and representation of national, political, local and ethnic identities, which are born out
of (and continue to shape) social change. In addition, these collective identities will be analysed in
terms of memory and commemoration, considering how the recent past is remembered and
memorialised. In so doing the module will introduce students to many of the key debates within the
literature and will engage with a range of primary and secondary source material. By the end of the
module, students will have acquires a sound understanding of how the past has contributed to the
construction of contemporary identities in Europe and beyond.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Type
Weighting
Coursework 90%
Coursework 10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word book review
or source analysis
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word book review
or source analysis
V14500 – HERESY AND RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES
V14450 – HERESY AND RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Convenor: Claire Taylor
30 cr
20 cr
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: This module engages students in discussion about the nature of correct and
incorrect religious belief in the Middle Ages (c.600-c.1500), and the responses to it by churchmen
and secular rulers, through close analysis of original documents from the medieval period. It is
convened by the staff of the Medieval Heresy and Dissent Research Network and students will be
taught by heresy scholars who are leaders in their field.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Type
Weighting
Coursework 90%
Coursework 10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word source
analysis
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word source
analysis
30 cr
20 cr
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V14560 – FOREIGN POLICY AND APPEASEMENT, 1933-39
V14460 – FOREIGN POLICY AND APPEASEMENT, 1933-39
Convenor: Dan Hucker
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: This module examines the evolution of British foreign policy from Hitler’s
ascendancy to power in Germany in 1933 until the outbreak of the Second World War in September
1939. More specifically, the module will consider:
 British foreign policy from the Versailles Treaty to the early 1930s
 The emergence of Nazism in Germany
 Definitions of appeasement
 Strategies of appeasement
 Challenges to the status quo – Abyssinia and the re-occupation of the Rhineland
 The Spanish Civil War
 The ‘English Governess’ - Anglo-French relations and appeasement
 The USSR and the failure of collective security
 Japanese revisionism in the Far East
 Public opinion and appeasement
 The Munich Agreement
 The end of appeasement, 1938-9
 The historiography of appeasement
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 20%
Coursework 10%
Method of Assessment
Type
Weighting
Coursework 90%
Coursework 10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word book review
or source analysis
1 x 10 minute student-led
seminar presentation plus
1,000-word presentation
report
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 10 minute student-led
seminar presentation plus
1,000-word presentation
report
30 cr
20 cr
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V14595 – (MIS)PERCEPTIONS OF THE OTHER: FROM SAVAGES AND BARBARIANS TO
THE EXOTIC AND EROTIC
V14490 – (MIS)PERCEPTIONS OF THE OTHER: FROM SAVAGES AND BARBARIANS TO
THE EXOTIC AND EROTIC
Convenor: Onni Gust
Contributors: Liudmyla Sharipova, Peter Darby
30 Credits
20 Credits
Summary of Content: This module will investigate the various ways in which western Europeans
and Americans have constructed and categorised peoples as the ‘other’ in a wide range of eras and
places. This will include some or all of: views on the Jewish and Islamic faiths in the early-medieval
period; notions of Russians between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; constructions of
Amerindians and Africans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and views of various
societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including China and Japan. These ‘others’ were
variously constructed as savages, barbarians, exotic, and were often sexualised or eroticised. Even
when the ‘other’ was perceived as fabulous – those constructions usually (though not always), had
negative connotations and were often used to justify the actions towards them of those doing the
‘othering’. Key themes will be: conceptualisation and construction of the ‘other’; using the other to
justify actions; civilisation vs barbarism; decadence vs progress; East vs West; Christianity vs
paganism.
Method and Frequency of
Class
Activity
Seminar
Method of Assessment
Method of Assessment
Number per
week
1
Type
Weighting
Coursework 70%
Coursework 30%
Type
Weighting
Coursework 90%
Coursework 10%
Duration
Further Details
2 hours
Details
1 x 5,000 word essay
1 x 2,000 word source
analysis
Details
1 x 4,000 word essay
1 x 1,000 word source
analysis
30 cr
20 cr
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SUMMER SEMESTER (60 credits)
Compulsory:
V14529 – MA DISSERTATION IN HISTORY
Convenor: David Laven
60 Credits
Summary of Content: The dissertation is an extended piece of research on a historical topic. All
students will have a supervisor appointed during the course of the Research Skills for Historians
module and they will be expected to consult the supervisor throughout the project. All dissertation
students will be required to make use of both primary and secondary material and to incorporate
this into their dissertation.
Activities
Meetings with dissertation supervisor
Research
Writing and redrafting
Method of Assessment
Type
Dissertation
Duration
5 hours
350 hours
245 hours
Weighting
100%
Details
1 x 19,000 – 20,000 word dissertation
Masters-level professional development modules
Alongside the discipline-specific modules offered within your school or department, you will also
have the option to take one or two external modules. These modules allow you to apply your
specialist masters training in a careers context; they will provide you with the professional skills to
enhance your employability in a range of possible destinations, and may also be a useful foundation
for a PhD project and an academic career.
Details can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/careers/ma-professional-development.
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Learning Community Forum
The purpose of the Learning Community Forums is to ensure that the views of students are given
proper weight in the processes of course and module review, and to ensure that the concerns of
students about their courses of studies are represented to the academic staff throughout the
academic year. The recommendations of this forum are considered by the Departmental
Management Committee. Minutes of the Learning Community Forum are then taken into
consideration in the Department’s course reviews.
The forum meets at least once every semester and its membership consists of student
representatives from each year of study, and a small number of staff with specific responsibilities
relating to postgraduate matters. If you have an issue, concern or suggestion that you would like to
be raised at the forum, contact the relevant rep.
Each year students are elected as representatives on the forum. If you are interested in getting
involved please email David Laven.
There are also two School-wide LCFs that deal with issues that affect students across the School of
Humanities' seven departments. The Forum normally takes place three times per year.
For more information:
Workspace:
http://workspace.nottingham.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?title=PG+History+Learning+Community
+Forum&spaceKey=LCForum
Moodle Community Page:
http://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=20038
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SUPPORT FOR DISABLED POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
If you have a disability or a long-term medical condition the University can provide you with ongoing
support so that you can complete your course as independently as possible.
There are two specialist units based in the Student Services Centre in the Portland Building.
The Disability Adviser for Postgraduate Students, Owen Butler, works with postgraduate students
who are disabled or have a long-term medical condition or poor mental health.
Email: PGDisabilityAdviser@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: 0115 9513710 (option 3)
Academic Support
www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/supportforyourstudies/academicsupport
Tel: +44 (0)115 951 3710
Email: dyslexia-support@nottingham.ac.uk
Academic Support comprises Dyslexia Support and Study Support
Dyslexia Support provides individual specialist support for students with dyslexia, dyspraxia and
other Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs). They can discuss appropriate adjustments such as
Alternative Examination Arrangements (e.g. extra time and rest breaks) and support workers (e.g.
note takers and mentors). In addition they provide advice on applying for Disabled Students'
Allowance (DSA) and offer screening and formal assessment for students.
Study Support provides support for all students to develop their learning strategies via one-to-one
sessions, group workshops and occasional drop-in sessions in Hallward library.
Disability Support
www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/supportforyourstudies/disabilitysupport
Tel: +44 (0)115 95 13710
Email: disability-support@nottingham.ac.uk
Disability Support provides support for students who are disabled or have a long-term medical
conditions or poor mental health. This may include alternative examination arrangements (e.g. extra
time and rest breaks), support workers (e.g. note takers and mentors), accessible transport around
campus and Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA).
To access these support services you need to make direct contact with Academic Support or
Disability Support at the Student Services Centre as soon as possible or call 0115 8232070 to
arrange an appointment.
Further sources of information and support

Chaplaincy and Faith Support: www.nottingham.ac.uk/chaplaincy

The University Counselling Service: www.nottingham.ac.uk/counselling

School of Humanities Disability Liaison Officer: Charlotte Halls, Taught Courses Office, A23,
Humanities Building
c.halls@nottingham.ac.uk 0115 74 84636
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Useful Contacts 2015/16
Director, Taught Postgraduate Studies (History):
David Laven, Room A2b Lenton Grove
0115 74 84104
david.laven@nottingham.ac.uk
MA Administrator:
Rachel Fox, Taught Courses Office, A23, Humanities Building
0115 74 84527
rachel.fox@nottingham.ac.uk
Social Sciences and Arts Graduate Centre (SSAGC): located on the first floor of Highfield House. It is
a dedicated space open 24/7 for postgraduate students and research staff, and offers a wide range
of support, including training and careers sessions.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/graduateschool/graduatecentres/socialsciencesandarts
History Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/427268370652928/
Humanities Twitter Page:
https://twitter.com/UoNHumanities
Faculty of Arts Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/UoNArts
Web addresses:
History staff profiles and contact details: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/people
Moodle: https://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk
Catalogue of Modules: http://modulecatalogue.nottingham.ac.uk/nottingham/
Key dates: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/keydates/dates1516.aspx
Quality Manual (regulatory framework governing teaching and learning at The University of
Nottingham): http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/academicservices/qualitymanual
University of Nottingham Short Courses: https://training.nottingham.ac.uk
Please note that information contained in this booklet was correct at the time of printing
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Notes
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Humanities
Building
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Lenton
Grove (5)
Graduate
School (10)
Students Union /
Student Services
(15)
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