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MA - Master of Arts
Singleton Park Campus
Full Time
SEP
1 Year
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Singleton Park Campus
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Singleton Park Campus
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Singleton Park Campus
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Singleton Park Campus
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Singleton Park Campus
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COURSE OVERVIEW
The MA in Public History and Heritage is ideal if you are directly aiming for a career in that field. We offer a flexible programme designed to offer academic training and relevant employability skills.
You will have the chance to engage with external heritage organisations and gain practical, hands-on experience with staff projects in heritage and public history.
A range of stimulating and relevant modules are available to choose, covering topics from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to contemporary local history.
In the second part of the course you have a choice of a 60-credit practice-based dissertation project, or a 60-credit written dissertation project.
WHY PUBLIC HISTORY AND HERITAGE AT SWANSEA?
Swansea University will connect you with respected external heritage organisations, allowing you to gain experience with a number of projects.
The College of Arts and Humanities is based on our stunning Singleton Park campus, in parkland overlooking Swansea Bay.
Designed to promote individual and collaborative research activity of international standard, the Graduate Centre provides a supportive environment for postgraduate research and taught masters study.
It offers postgraduate training to enhance academic and professional development, and facilitates seminar programmes, workshops and international conferences.
PUBLIC HISTORY AND HERITAGE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
This course is designed to develop your employability by connecting you with external heritage organisations. In addition to practical specialised skills, you will develop excellent oral and writing skills.
Graduates from this course are well positioned for a career in public history and heritage. But they also enter industries including education or government.
Our career support services include:
Our preferred offer is a 2:1 degree in History, Heritage Studies, Archaeology, Classics, Egyptology, Geography, Cultural Studies, Sociology or a 2:1 degree in other arts, humanities or social science subjects, or a science-based archaeology or conservation degree. We will also consider applications from candidates with significant professional or volunteering experience in the heritage/public history sector.
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Rest of World
£18,400 per year
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Residence Cost – 176 Cost per week
Located on the stunning Swansea Bay coastline, this Welsh university provides easy access to the city centre, as well as to the beaches...
