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PGDip History at University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Programme overview

The PGDip History is the taught-only postgraduate diploma version of the Strathclyde History Masters, covering British, European and world history across the early modern and modern periods. It provides advanced research training and historiographical study without the dissertation.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences  |  Department: Department of Humanities  |  Duration: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core module Research Skills, Sources and Methods for Historians, plus four optional modules across politics and society, global conflict, empires and diplomacy, health and medicine, and oral history, with one elective possible from another MSc programme. An optional eight-week work placement module is available.

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Application information

Entry requirements

First-class or second-class Honours degree, or international equivalent, in a social science subject. International applicants who do not meet the academic requirement can take the Pre-Masters Preparation Course at the University of Strathclyde International Study Centre.

Domestic applicants: GBP 7,133 a year (2027/28). PgDip Source

International applicants: GBP 16,633 a year (2027/28). PgDip Source

Intake: September

Duration: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time

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