Master of Science - Contemporary History

The Master of Science allows students to explore such questions critically and analytically while discovering how the recent past shaped the modern world. They will gain a comprehensive understanding of the increasingly global experience of humankind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A specialized methodological and historiographical course will help them appreciate the distinctiveness of contemporary history; its use of radio, television, film, and internet-based sources such as Wikileaks; and its methodology. This rigorous skills training will be supplemented by a variety of topical, specialized options, covering virtually every distinctive approach to history (e.g. political, social and economic) and every region on the globe, underlining the increasing globalization of university recent past.