PGCert Health History at University of Strathclyde

A research-led programme introducing issues, debates and specialist topics in the history of health and medicine, organised around the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow, Scotland's largest centre for the history of health and medicine.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences  |  Department: Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow  |  Duration: 8 months part-time  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

Students take the core module Research Skills, Sources & Methods for Historians and optional classes such as Advanced Oral History, Pharmaceuticals, Ethics and Health: 1800-1980, Governing Highs & Health, Medicine and Warfare, Food and Health in the West during the 20th Century, Gender, Health & Modern Medicine Since 1800, Mad World, Media & Health and Work Placement in History. The MSc adds a dissertation of original historical research.

Career pathways

Skills for teaching, health policy and doctoral research.

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