Historical Studies

Postgraduate Certificate in Historical Studies

Course Code | 000725

This course offers a unique opportunity for graduates of any discipline to pursue a taught postgraduate qualification in historical studies.

The flexible structure of the one-year, part-time course enables students to combine a focused study of key historical themes and concepts in British and Western European history with either a broad-based approach to history or with specialism by period or branch of the discipline (political, social, economic, art, architectural and local). The course culminates in research for a substantial dissertation.

• Length of programme: This is a one-year part-time course taught in five weekend units with supplementary self-study material in three short-online modules.

• Core and optional courses:
  
  
  • Unit 1: Princes, States, and Revolutions
  • Unit 2: European Court patronage c.1400
  • Unit 3: Religious reformations and movements
  • Unit 4: Memory and Conflict
  • Unit 5: Special Subjects
    

    A range of special subjects is offered each year, allowing specialization across time periods and the historical disciplines. Examples include: Medieval pilgrimage; Medieval towns; the Tudor and early Stuart nobility; Victorian women; the history of Oxford; and the British Empire.

    The first online teaching module provides a pre-course introduction to history and post-graduate study skills. The second focuses upon the analysis and interpretation of material sources, such as buildings and images and the third upon the analysis and interpretation of a range of documentary sources.

Students have full access to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library, the  Bodleian Library and other University libraries such as the History Faculty Library and the Sackler (Art) Library. 

The course will also draw upon the resources of the University’s museums and art galleries.

Dr Cathy Oakes

University Lecturer in Art History and Director of Art History at OUDCE, and Fellow of Kellogg College. Dr Oakes is the Course Director for 2010-11.

Dr Christine Jackson

University Lecturer in History at OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Elizabeth Gemmill

University Lecturer in Local History at OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Tom Buchanan

Reader in Modern History and Director of History and Politics, OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Claire O’Mahony

University Lecturer in Art History, OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Mark Smith

University Lecturer in Local History at OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Mrs Annette Mayer

Part-time tutor, OUDCE.

Masters’ programmes in historical disciplines, freelance historical research and writing, museum curatorship, teaching (including PGCE).

• MSc in English Local History (part-time)
• MSt in Medieval History (full-time)
• MSt in Medieval Studies (full-time)
• MSt in Modern British & European History (full-time)
• MSt in Economic & Social History (full-time)
  
• MSt in the History of Art & Visual Culture (full-time)