Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Minor Award
Total Credits: 30
Connected Curriculum: - Civic and Community Engagement
- Employability
- Global Reach
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Exit Award only
MA (History) candidates who pass 30 credits of taught modules may opt to exit the programme and be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in History.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| HI6075 | Making History Public | 10 |
| HI6076 | Changing Directions in History: Transformative Historians and Their Work | 5 |
| 20 |
| |
| New Worlds, Ancient Texts | |
| The Insular World in Text and Image | |
| |
| Debates in the Irish Revolution | |
| Healthcare in Ireland, 1750-present | |
| |
| Radicalism, Dissent and the Print Media in Modern Ireland | |
| |
| US Foreign Policy and Contemporary History | |
| War and Peace: the European State System from 1648 to 1990 | |
| 10 |
| Work Placement and Portfolio 1 | |
| Beginners' Latin 1 | |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Certificate in History:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of major issues and problems within the study of history including public history;
- Incorporate and evaluate insights and findings that are informed by scholarship at the forefront of the field of history;
- Articulate findings and communicate judgements cogently and coherently in a variety of oral and written forms and settings;
- Locate and appraise a broad range of primary and secondary sources related to history.
