Graduate studiesopen day

November 2014

Major themes in HSTM

Historiography

Any HSTM option

Any HSTM option

Dissertation in HSTM

Semester 1 (Oct-Jan) Semester 2 (Jan-May) Vacation (May-Sep)

FULL-TIME

Major themes in

HSTM

Dissertation in HSTM

Semester 1

Any HSTM option

Any HSTM option

Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Vacation

PART-TIME

Vacation

Research skills

Historiog-raphy

Research skills

First year Second year

History of Science, Technology and Medicine pathway

• Shaping the Sciences: how disciplines form; building and keeping professional status; Big Science and the military-industrial-academic complex; science and diplomacy

• Making Modern Technology: grand technological projects and visions; invisible technologies and infrastructures; national and international agendas; warfare; information society

• Medicine, Science and Modernity: disease histories; healthcare institutions; medicine and the lab; chronic and acute illness; gender and authority; patient perspectives; global biomedicine

or, by arrangement:

• Science Communication units

• Humanities units from outside CHSTM

Option choices, HSTM semester 2/4

Some recent HSTM MSc dissertation titles• William Sargant and his role in 1950s psychiatry with a focus on

brainwashing techniques, the false confession and the abolition of the death penalty

• W(h)ither Big Science? Reflections on the death of the Superconducting Super Collider and the life of the Large Hadron Collider

• Stray dogs in the Victorian city• British medical education in the 20th century, centring around George

Pickering's survey and recommendations for change • Mill architecture and industrial heritage in Greater Manchester • Communication of different therapies for insomnia, both NHS-approved

and alternative, to women in popular sources in the last 20 years• Atorvastatin: its journey into and through the UK medical world• Radio and scientific careers in the early twentieth century in Britain• Educating on AIDS: Conceptual problems with school-based HIV

interventions in Kenya• The uses of stage drama in science public engagement work

Major themes in Med Hum

MH methods

Medicine, science and modernity

30 credits of option choice

Dissertation or creative

portfolio in Medical

Humanities

Semester 1 (Oct-Jan) Semester 2 (Jan-May) Vacation (May-Sep)

FULL-TIME

Major themes in

HSTM

Dissertation or creative portfolio

Semester 1

Medicine, science and modernity

30 credits of option

choice

Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Vacation

PART-TIME

Vacation

Research skills

Med Hum methods

Research skills

First year Second year

Medical humanities pathway

www.manchester.ac.uk/chstmjane.gregory@manchester.ac.uk

MSc Science Communication programme

Semester 1 Credit Semester 2(*contact hours organised in three one-day schools)

Credit(*students take 2 of 4 for credit)

Summer Credit

Major Themes in HSTM

30

Science Communication Research*

15* Dissertation or Portfolio

60

Research and Communication Skills

15

Science, Government and Policy*

15*

Introduction to Science Communication

15 Science, Media and Journalism*

15*

Museums and Events*

15*

Mentored Project

30

Total credits 60 60 60