Cultural History MA

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University of Manchester

Comments about Cultural History MA - At the institution - Manchester - Greater Manchester

• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements: An Upper Second class honours degree, or the overseas equivalent.
• Academic title
  Cultural History MA
• Course description
  Course description
  
  This programme exploits our noted research strengths in the new cultural history, to provide an advanced introduction to its potentialities and to the debates it has generated. A theoretical and historiographical introduction to these is provided by its core course unit, 'History and Postmodernism'. This unit examines the so-called postmodern turn in contemporary social and cultural theory in the past two decades, which has posed a radical challenge to the practices, approaches and epistemology of the discipline of History. Through the controversies it has unleashed new types of histories have emerged which critically engage with postmodernism broadly conceived. Students on this programme often choose options in English Literature or Social Science.
  
  Module details
  
  Typical course units include: Research Training; History and Postmodernism; The Humanitarian Subject; The (IR)resistible rise of the American empire, 1941-1955; Colonial Modernity and the Public Sphere; Foucault; Is America Postcolonial?; The New Worlds Encounter with Europe; Men, Masculinities and Social Change; The Enlightenment and its Critics; Language, Gender and Feminism; Death and the Visual Culture of Modernity; Ethics, Politics and the Body; Major Issues in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; and Supervised Reading.
  

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