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Undergraduate (sample)
Year 1: War in History (Dr Max Jones and Ana Carden-Coyne)
Year 2: A Liberal Nation? State & Society in Britain since 1815 (Dr Max Jones)
Year 3:
- The Great War, Myth and Memory: A Cultural History of WW1 (Dr Ana Carden-Coyne);
- War & Empire in Britain since 1877 (Dr Max Jones);
- Refugees in Modern World History (Professor Peter Gatrell);
- War and Personal Testimony (Professor Penny Summerfield);
- Democracy and Decadence: Humanitarianism in Historical Perspective (Dr Bertrand Taithe).
Postgraduate Courses
Exciting Options:
- Memory & War (Dr Ana Carden-Coyne)
- Gender & War (Professor Penny Summerfield)
- The Humanitarian Subject: Humanity, Medicine, and the Body (Dr Bertrand Taithe)
- Social and Cultural Upheavals in Russia: War and Peace, 1890-1950 (Prof P. Gatrell)
And many other options....
New option: Filming War, Filming History (Dr Ana Carden-Coyne)
MA in War, Culture and History
Director:
Dr Ana Carden-Coyne e-mail
a.cc@manchester.ac.uk
Centre for the Cultural History of War
Click here to download the new program for this course
The 20th Century has been the most violent period in history. Modern technologies, old and new ideologies infect the struggle for power and strain regard for other people's lives. We continue to live in an age where violence is sanitised by terms such as friendly fire, collateral damage and safe bombs. Historians have responded. The MA in History, War and Culture reflects the intellectual challenge of examining the impact of war on peoples and cultures.
A dramatic transformation in the study of war has been occurring over the last few decades. No longer are we content to understand war through great battles, generals and machines. The study of the impact of war upon peoples and cultures has led cultural historians of war to draw upon interdisciplinary approaches from anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, religious studies and international relations, trauma studies and the history of medicine. We theorise the oppressive structures of militarist regimes and military action through the practice of cultural history, and through considerations of sexuality, power, discourse, and subjectivity.
Physical and environmental destruction, social dislocation, forced exile, financial and family hardship occur alongside the rise and fall of regimes. Humanitarian responses to war engage a range of political and ideological intentions. The impact of war on people invites us to consider the ethics of representing violence and traumatic experience through the media, cinema, documentary, and in the public domain of exhibitions about war. Children and homelands, men and women have become a vital voice in the study of war.
The Centre for the Cultural History of War here at the University of Manchester announces a new Masters program for its flagship teaching and research unit.
Program
1. Core Course - Memory and War
- exploring MEMORY as an overarching intellectual question in the cultural history of war and public perceptions of the meaning of war
- experiencing memory and how it interacts with oral and written forms
- considering violence and its impact upon memory in theory and practice
- understanding the artefacts of memory: sites, films and museums
The 'Memory and War' Core Course is designed to share interdisciplinary knowledge regarding theories of memory with special attention to how these ideas are applied in the cultural history of war. This course will be taught by experts in several fields: cultural history; art history and museum studies; English and American Studies; screen studies; religion and theology; history of science and medicine; government and international studies. It will also involve expertise from museum specialists currently working in the cultural history of war, such as curators and educators of the Imperial War Museum North.
2. Options - Choose 2 exciting options: 30 credits each.
- GENDER and WAR
- Medicine + HUMANITARIANISM
- Holocaust Theology
- REPRESENTING Masculinities
- BEING JEWISH in Britain
- Social Upheaval and Forced Migration
- European LIBERALISM
- MODERN BRITAIN
- Interpreting the PRESENT & Reinterpreting the PAST
- Citizenship and Society
- Cities and Spaces
- Rise of the AMERICAN Empire
- COLONIES and Colonized
- England , Identity & Writing ' and many more to come'
PLUS
a new course combining
the skills of
history, ethics and digital film media:
FILMING WAR, FILMING HISTORY
- bringing together the expertise of historians, film-makers & media professionals.
- contributing to current research and teaching in the cultural history of war
- critically analysing the ethics of representing violence, trauma, recovery & hope
- fusing understanding of scholarship in cultural history, war and representation with practical skills in digital film, editing and web-based formats.
- discussing issues and problems in the practice of putting history into the public domain, through both film and within museum practice
- UNCOVERING LOCAL VOICES and NORTHERN experiences of war
The special option course 'Filming War, Filming History' will bring together cultural historians of war, theorists, media specialists and war museum curators to educate students in this intellectual discipline, and then train them in the application of those skills in the making of a digital film portfolio.
3. Dissertation
12-15,000 words - 60 credits
4. Training Course
"Historical Methods and Techniques." (30 credits)