Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required Modules
You are required to take:
- Advanced Skills for Historians (30 credits)
- Transnational History (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
If you are a part-time student, you will take Transnational History in your first year and Advanced Skills for Historians and your dissertation in your second year.
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules. If you are a part-time student, you will take 30 credits in your first year and 30 credits in your second.
The list of optional modules may typically include:
- The Spanish Civil War and the Crisis of the 1930s (15 credits)
- Revolutions and Constitutions in Europe, c.1790-1870 (15 credits)
- Empire, Nation & Modernity in Eastern Europe, 1848-1914 (15 credits)
- The Peculiarities of German History, c.1871-1949 (15 credits)
- Patriotism and National Identities in Britain, 1870-1914 (15 credits)
- Gender and British Society, 1945-2000 (15 credits)
- Britain and Decolonisation (15 credits)
- Liberty and Inequality in the Early American Republic (15 credits)
- The British Empire (15 credits)
- French Empires, 1750-1914 (15 credits)
- Capital of the Black World? Race, Place and Diaspora in Harlem, 1900–Present (15 credits)
- Inequality in World History (15 credits)
- Obsessed with the West: Movements and Ideologies in Modern Iran (15 credits)
- Rupture and Continuity: Histories of Maoist China (15 credits)
- Debates in Modern Latin American History (15 credits)
- Debates in Modern African History (15 credits)
- Up to 30 credits from a range of master’s modules offered by other MA programmes in the department, other departments at King’s, or via the intercollegiate scheme by Departments of History from across the University of London, subject to approval.
Teaching methods - what to expect
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
If you are a full-time student, we will give you six to eight hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 32-34 hours of self-study.
If you are a part-time student, in each year we will give you two to four hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars and we will expect you to undertake 16-18 hours of self study.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
- Essays
- Dissertation
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include essays and a dissertation.