This module provides the opportunity to undertake a narrative review of published psychoanalytic literature on a specified topic with one-to-one supervision....

MSc Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies: Dissertation (PSYC0171)

This module provides the opportunity to undertake a narrative review of published psychoanalytic literature on a specified topic with one-to-one supervision. You will be expected to identify a suitable area of research and formulate a research question appropriate to the discipline and project length, limiting its scope and justifying its significance. You will develop the skills to conduct a literature review that demonstrates awareness of existing knowledge on the topic; and, though critical engagement with its key texts and authors, develop an original line of argument. In addition to the one-to-one supervision, you will also have the opportunity to attend a number of workshops and seminars on research methodologies and other topics specific to the dissertation project. Please note that this is a compulsory module in the MSc Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies programme and is only open to students in this programme.

AMERICAN HISTORY|MODERN HISTORY|UNITED STATES|NINETEENTH CENTURY|CIVIL WAR

This course will offer an introduction to the key themes and events in nineteenth century American history. At the beginning of our period the United States...

Building the American Nation: The United States, 1789-1920 (HIST0187)

This course will offer an introduction to the key themes and events in nineteenth century American history. At the beginning of our period the United States was a fragile union of post-revolutionary states that had struggled to free themselves from British rule. At its end it the United States was a global power that had intervened decisively in the First World War and which saw itself as being in a unique position to shape the peace that followed. What drove this dramatic transformation, and what was the relationship between domestic nation-building and this rapid increase in American influence overseas? We will focus on the vigorous and often violent contests over slavery and capitalism, democracy, nationalism and imperialism that moulded the United States during this period. We will examine the rapid extension of the American settler population across the continent and the dispossession of native peoples, as well as the ongoing debates over who exactly comprised ‘we the people,’ as named by the U.S. Constitution. And, of course, central to this module will be the American Civil War (1861-1865), which cost the lives of more than 700,000 Americans and resulted in the emancipation of nearly four million enslaved African Americans. Still the bloodiest conflict in the history of the United States, the Civil War has shaped the modern United States to a greater degree than any other event since the Revolution. The course will introduce you to both primary and significant secondary works relating to this period and will aim to give you a sense of the tumultuous political, economic and social changes that remade American life between 1789 and 1920.