History

A Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma are available to graduates who have not included History at an advanced level in their first degree.
For further details, contact the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office.

To be eligible to be considered for enrolment in graduate History papers, a student should normally have at least a B average in either the best three of their 300 level History papers or all their undergraduate History papers. The requirements for admission to masters level study in history are set out in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Handbook.
To complete a BA(Hons) or BSocSc(Hons) in History, students must gain 120 points at 500 level, including at least 30 points in research (normally HIST591) and at least 30 points from papers listed for History. HIST506 is compulsory for all students taking more than two papers in History for the BA(Hons) or BSocSc(Hons).
To complete an MA or MSocSc in History, students must take a 120 point thesis, a 90 point thesis and 30 points from approved 500 level papers, or a 60 point dissertation and 60 points in approved 500 level papers.

The Master of Philosophy is a one year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality.

The Doctor of Philosophy is a two year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality.