Universities that offer a MA in Modern history which includes...

do you mean a linguistic turn?

have you tried prospects.co.uk? i think they list masters and descriptions...

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Alan Smithee

Nottingham offer something in Critical Theory and Politics. But I don't know about the rest.

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Socrates

SOAS if you like a more specialist take on things...

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Perfection

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As for historical theory - youll find that near enough every MA History course includes a compulsary topic on just that. It might be under the guise of another name and is usually coupled with some sort of research methods teaching too. Its there where youll get a brief sweep through much historical theory and techniques. I would bet that 'module' is also the place where universities would include something like postmodernist theory.

Try looking at module definitions for their core modules.

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The Boosh

do you mean a linguistic turn?

have you tried prospects.co.uk? i think they list masters and descriptions...

whoops, damn touch typing lol

oo forgot about prospects

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lol that's ok. your interests sound great, i use similar theories for my phd (in special educaton) to illuminate complexity - the dominant paradigm in my field (educational psychology) is 'dry and dusty' too and i love the richness postmodern methodologies offer.

if you want to reall **** with peoples heads, read and reference deleuze & guattari - a thousand plateaus. my old prof (roger griffin) for my undergrad degree in history has used d&g to illuminate fascism. a great heuristic tool for thinking about life, and perhaps the hardest philosophy book ive ever read.

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The Boosh

lol that's ok. your interests sound great, i use similar theories for my phd (in special educaton) to illuminate complexity - the dominant paradigm in my field (educational psychology) is 'dry and dusty' too and i love the richness postmodern methodologies offer.

if you want to reall **** with peoples heads, read and reference deleuze & guattari - a thousand plateaus. my old prof (roger griffin) for my undergrad degree in history has used d&g to illuminate fascism. a great heuristic tool for thinking about life, and perhaps the hardest philosophy book ive ever read.

Oh sounds really interesting. Will add that to my christmas reading list. And am doing a fascism module next term too.

Now this is where I ask whether you have read any of Keith Jenkins' work?

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vickytoria77

Oh sounds really interesting. Will add that to my christmas reading list. And am doing a fascism module next term too.

Now this is where I ask whether you have read any of Keith Jenkins' work?

the name rings a bell, ive not studied history for a little while so my memory is hazy, but i know the name.

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The Boosh

if you want to reall **** with peoples heads, read and reference deleuze & guattari - a thousand plateaus. my old prof (roger griffin) for my undergrad degree in history has used d&g to illuminate fascism. a great heuristic tool for thinking about life, and perhaps the hardest philosophy book ive ever read.

I couldn't agree more with the last part - I'm having to reread it now for a module in political psychology (largely dealing with fascism as well), and while the first time around was pure torture, this time seems even worse. It's quite fascinating in a, well, masochistic sense, though :wink:

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lol excellent stuff! wierdly enough its taking off in the world of disability studies. My favourite part of the book has to be the notion of becoming wolves anuses - i think you should try hard to quote this in your political psychology paper, just for fun.

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The Boosh

the name rings a bell, ive not studied history for a little while so my memory is hazy, but i know the name.

He's one of my lecturers hence some of my modules being about historical theory

I've reserved that book as I'm really keen to read it now

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The Boosh

lol excellent stuff! wierdly enough its taking off in the world of disability studies. My favourite part of the book has to be the notion of becoming wolves anuses - i think you should try hard to quote this in your political psychology paper, just for fun.

You know, I so would, but my lecturer is a psychotic quack who thinks Bill Clinton should've been brought down in a military coup because *ANY* form of (intra-/extramarital) oral sex is wrong. I don't think she'd appreciate that, and I'm really relying on this mark :p:

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Lexy86

You know, I so would, but my lecturer is a psychotic quack who thinks Bill Clinton should've been brought down in a military coup because *ANY* form of (intra-/extramarital) oral sex is wrong. I don't think she'd appreciate that, and I'm really relying on this mark :p:

keith said the other day that for all we know we could be living in a frog's intestine

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vickytoria77

keith said the other day that for all we know we could be living in a frog's intestine

LOLOL. Ah, the joys of higher education :wink:

Live and learn, folks.

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Lexy86

LOLOL. Ah, the joys of higher education :wink:

Live and learn, folks.

Was very interesting and could understand the point he was trying to make but just a little too deep for a monday morning?

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vickytoria77

Was very interesting and could understand the point he was trying to make but just a little too deep for a monday morning?

Oh no, I understand completely - I wasn't trying to discredit his views, sorry if it came out that way :smile:

Mondays are always the worst, but I guess students should be prepared to tackle depths of any magnitude on any given day :p:

That seems to be the theory most of my professors live by...

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