2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Medieval History (Part-Time)
Programme code: | MA-MDVHIS-PT | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 24 Months | Method of Attendance: | Part Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Iona McCleery | Contact address: | i.mccleery@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Good Honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate subject.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of History
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of History
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
History
Programme specification:
The MA in Medieval History provides students with both a generic training in the key skills required of a professional historian, and a detailed knowledge in a range of areas relevant to Medieval history as a sub-discipline of history.
At the end of the programme students should have attained a level of professional competency and confidence sufficient to conduct independent, unsupervised, high quality research in their area of specialism. They will have acquired the research skills and standards required for locating, processing, analysing and communicating historical material, and in particular will have been equipped with research skills in Latin, palaeography and the interpretation of medieval source material.
Throughout the programmes students will benefit from the advantages of working with specialist teachers and supervisors in a large research-led department, and access to the superb library facilities.
The School of History achieved a 5 rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and its programme is notable for both the chronological and geographical range of the specialisms it offers, and students can also, by arrangement, take modules offered by other colleagues through the centre for medieval studies, an interdisciplinary centre and one of the largest groups of medievalists in the UK.
Leeds University's Brotherton library houses one of the largest research collections in Britain and has especially extensive holdings of published works in medieval British and European history, particularly cartularies. This gives an excellent resource base for dissertations. In addition there are buses from campus to the nearby British Library branch at Boston Spa, and there is ready access to the Leeds Public Library, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the West Yorkshire Archives Service.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
The requirement for all students will normally be 60 credits in Medieval language(s), at least 30 credits of which will include MEDV5000M or MEDV5001M. Candidates who test (by examination) as research-capable in Medieval Latin will take at least 30 credits in Medieval language(s). Further guidance can be sought from the Programme Director.
MEDV5000M | Introduction to Medieval Latin | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV5001M | Intermediate Medieval Latin | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MEDV5110M | Research Methods and Bibliography | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV5120M | Palaeography: Reading Medieval Manuscripts | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
HIST5465M | Dissertation (Medieval History) | 30 credits | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) |
Optional modules:
At least 30 credits must be taken from the HIST list:
At least one module has to be from the HIST list.
The other can be from the MEDV list.
At least one option module must be taken from the HIST list. The other can be taken from the MEDV list.
HIST5020M | Making History: Archive Collaborations | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST5028M | Bede's Northumbria | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST5029M | Gender, Sex, and Love: Byzantium and the West, 900-1200 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST5875M | Lifecycles: Birth, Death and Illness in the Middle Ages | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Not all optional modules will necessarily be on offer in any given year. The School will not normally expect to run modules with fewer than two students.
Students can take a maximum of 30 credits from the list below:
Students may take one of the following interdisciplinary modules from the MA Medieval Studies if they have not already done so in year 1.
MEDV5260M | Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (1095-1204) | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MEDV5281M | How to be a Saint in the Middle Ages: Saints' Cults and their impact on culture and society (500-1500) | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MEDV5295M | Religious Communities and the Individual Experience of Religion, 1200-1500 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV5330M | The Medieval Tournament: Combat and Spectacle in Western Europe, 1100-1600 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV5335M | The Holy Land under the Franks: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and its Enemies, 1099-1187 | 30 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
MEDV5340M | Medieval Bodies | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV5346M | Preaching History: Understanding Sermons as Literary Genre and Historical Source | 30 credits | Not running in 201718 |
Not all optional modules will necessarily be on offer in any given year. The School will not normally expect to run modules with fewer than two students.
Last updated: 20/04/2017
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