A Master’s leading to a PhD – a case study
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by admin in History & Literature, Humanities
Zoe Denness is studying the MA War Culture and Society before progressing to undertake a PhD
Zoe enjoyed the variety of academic approaches used at Master's level
I’m fascinated by the concept of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances and dealing with the kind of extreme situations that happen only during war time. I studied history as an undergraduate then took a year to get some useful office experience before embarking on a Master’s.
What appealed to me about the structure of this course was the flexibility and scope for independent study within your area of interest. For my dissertation I’ve chosen to investigate Germanophobia – hostility towards German civilians in Britain during the First World War. Other people are looking at subjects such as terrorism in the twentieth century and the experiences of women in wartime.
The course at Portsmouth involves not only the History Department, but academics from other disciplines within the University who get involved by running guest seminars. I enjoyed being introduced to different academic approaches and felt that this helped us expand our horizons as researchers.
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History Of War, Culture And Society – MA
