Dissertation

You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation in the summer months which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August.

This is an independent, primary source-based research project supervised by one or more members of the academic staff. Students have considerable freedom to define their own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project which one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise.

The dissertation is worth 60 credits.

Example dissertation topics

Past dissertation topics have included:

• An All-Canadian Route?: Globalization, Nationalism, and the Klondike Gold Rush in American, Canadian, and London Newspapers 1897
• Beyond 'Billy Yank': Examining the Wartime Experiences and Motivations of Atypical Union Soldiers 
• Hawks or Doves: The Impact of the Media on the Vietnam War
• Deconstructing the Ideology of the Cold War: Freedom, Fear, the Media and the Rosenberg Trial