Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (History)

Course Overview

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured Ph.D. program, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

• are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area
• are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to the completion of the research project, e.g., additional language skills
• acknowledge a student’s professional development e.g. presentation of a paper at an international conference
• enhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g., career workshops, computer literacy.

Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their program of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

The Discipline offers supervision in a wide area of historical interests. Admission to a research degree is at the discretion of the potential supervisor and the head of the department, and is based on a proposal from the applicant following discussion with the member of staff whose academic area of interest is most appropriate. Candidates should have obtained an honors degree in History (Second Class Honours, Grade 1 minimum), and for the Ph.D., they would usually already hold a Master’s degree.