• Programme aims
• Programme content
• Entry requirements
• Awards
• Fees

Programme aims

The programme aims to provide students with knowledge and skills relating to:

• Current debates in history and their significance for the study of past childhoods and youth
• source material for the study of childhood and youth; image-based research
• the impact of race, class and gender in shaping the experiences of childhood and youth
• the experiences of children and young people in the twentieth century
• ethical issues in researching childhood.

Programme content

Students study the modules below and complete a dissertation.

• The Child and Youth in History: New Perspectives and New Themes
• Textual Representations of Children and Childhood, 1800-2000
• Childhood and Youth in an Age of Domestic and Global Conflict
• Childhood and Youth in the City: Race, Class, Gender and Life Experience

The programme is linked to a European funded project involving four universities. This project has developed a website for use on the programme.

Programme entry requirements

For an overview of the entry requirements, please refer to the "Admission requirements" page.

Students are required to have achieved a good honours degree.

Awards

On successful completion of the programme students will be awarded a Master of Arts degree. The programme is also offered as an MPhil where students study three modules and complete an extended dissertation.

Fees*

1st Year

The fees shown are for students commencing study in 2009-2010. Students should confirm their fees upon being offered a place.

Please request fees on application for Island applicants.

*Fees correct as of 27th May 2009