MA in Maritime History

Comments about MA in Maritime History - At the institution - Hull - East Yorkshire

• Entry requirements
  The MA in Maritime History offers the opportunity to combine a thorough grounding in research skills with detailed study of different facets of maritime history. As well as providing training in the techniques and methodologies of historical research, this distinctive programme allows specialisation in fields such as British merchant shipping since 1800, European fisheries history, the ship in history and 20th-century naval history. A dissertation, based on primary research in one of these areas, completes the programme. With a full range of archival, library, IT and other resources, the University of Hull – located in a vibrant port-city – is extremely well placed to provide this innovative Masters programme. This MA in Maritime History is available as a one year full-time or two year part-time programme and is taught by a strong complement of specialist maritime and naval historians at the MHSC. Other members of the History Department teach the various research training modules that are offered.
• Academic title
  MA in Maritime History
• Course description
  Maritime History Modules
  
  The MHSC offers many Maritime History undergraduate and postgraduate modules that form part of the History Department's overall selection of modules. The Maritime History modules form the core component of the BA History with Maritime History degree programme.
  
  Modules offered at the MHSC
  
  -The Sinews of Empire: British Maritime Labour in the Nineteenth Century
  -Sea Change: Britain's Maritime Interests since 1890
  -Piracy, Privateering and the Atlantic Economy c.1560-1856
  -Shipowning and Seafaring: The Case of Hull, c.1800-1914
  -Exploiting the Sea: Maritime History, 500-1500
  -The Age of Discovery
  -Britain and the Slave Trade