Late Antique and Byzantine Studies MA

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Course description: The course offers students the opportunity to specialise in an exciting and multi-faceted field of study that covers the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean world during the long millennium from the foundation of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 324 to the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453.(read more)

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History MA (Research)

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Course description: This course provides an opportunity for students to study specific areas of history in greater depth than at undergraduate level; students specialise in a particular branch of historical research and the choice includes British history, medieval history, modern European history, gender history, Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Environmental history and contemporary history.(read more)

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Postcolonial Studies MA

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Course description: The centre for colonial and postcolonial research has a lively graduate community, and promotes research through international conferences, national colloquia, visiting speakers and a regular graduate research seminar; this course offers the opportunity to work on African, Caribbean, Indian, African-American, Native American, Australian, South pacific and multicultural British writing.(read more)

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Greek and Roman Studies MA (Research)

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Course description: The course is designed for students who wish to explore a particular area of classics in special depth, primarily by independent work, but don't feel able to commit themselves to 3 years of full-time study (or its part-time equivalent) for a doctorate.(read more)

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Continental Philosophy and Health Care Ethics MA

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Course description: This course provides health care practitioners and students of diverse backgrounds with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded way.(read more)

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Sociology MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision is offered in the areas of: citizenship, ethnicity and nation; class and stratification; conversation analysis; crime and deviance; culture; development; ecology and environment; ethnographic methods; Europe, the new Europe; family; gay and lesbian studies; gender divisions; health and medicine including mental illness; history of sociological thought; Japanese society; Latin America; masculinity; mass media; oral history.(read more)

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Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies (Language, Texts and History) MA

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Course description: The programme offers a thorough grounding in text-based approaches to the interdisciplinary study of the early medieval period of England and Scandinavia, and provides a foundation for research work; students may choose to emphasise either Old English and Anglo-Saxon studies, or Old Norse and Viking studies; in addition to language and literature, the school is renowned for its specialisation in name studies and in runology.(read more)

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Classical and Archaeological Studies MA (Research)

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Course description: The history of archaeology; artefact studies (which aims to foster innovative approaches and Roman/medieval dialogue in this area, as well as raising the profile of artefact research in general); landscape and settlement studies; and Mycenaean epigraphy; the archaeology of the Roman army and frontier, archaeology and gender and classical medicine; Minoan iconography, Mycenaean administration, ritual theory and general bronze age Aegean.(read more)

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Victorian Literature and Art MA

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Course description: This cross-disciplinary MA offers a programme in Victorian studies which harnesses the expertise and resources of several of the College's most highly regarded departments; the foundation course provides an advanced grounding in the theory and practise of cultural studies.(read more)

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History MA (Research)

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Course description: Supervision is available over a wide range of research topics within the general field of history since the 16th century; the Department has particular expertise in the following areas: European social and cultural history from the 16th century (Britain, France, Germany and Russia are particular areas of interest); political movements and ideologies in the modern world; labour movements; late-imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.(read more)

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History of Science, Technology and Medicine MA (Research)

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Course description: The Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine has a strong postgraduate research group, and supports full or part-time research; recently completed theses include projects on: 19th-century literature and science; the relations between instrument makers and natural philosophers; the history of home computers; the construction of engineering science in Britain; and the history of Porton Down.(read more)

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Continental Philosophy and Health Care Law MA

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Course description: Provides students of diverse backgrounds (in particular law, health care or philosophy) with the theoretical tools that help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded way.(read more)

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Postcolonial Studies MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Staff supervise research in the following areas: African literature in English and in translation; Caribbean literature; African-American and Native American literatures; Australian literature; New Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800; Indian and South-east Asian literature in English and in translation; postcolonial women writers; theory; travel writing.(read more)

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Education (Citizenship/History/Religious Education) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Required: Dissertation (60 credits); or report (30 credits) on citizenship, history or religious education; optional (distance learning): history, culture and citizenship: engaging with museums, galleries and heritage (30 credits); international perspectives in history education (30 credits); learning, teaching and assessment in citizenship (30 credits); learning to live together: children's rights, citizenship and identities (30 credits).(read more)

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History of Philosophy MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Students specialise in at least 3 areas; available topics are likely to include: Greek philosophy (Plato and Aristotle); Hellenistic philosophy; Medieval philosophy; Arabic philosophy; Indian philosophy; early modern philosophy; Kant; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; phenomenology; Wittgenstein; no more than 1 of these should have been previously taken at undergraduate level.(read more)

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European Studies MA (Res)

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Course description: Supervision is available for topics connected with Europe and Russia in the areas of: art history; economics; history; law; literature; philosophy; political science and sociology.(read more)

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Digital Humanities MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course aims to give studentsa thorough grounding in the application of digital tools and methods to the textual, visual and material data of the humanities; it is meant for those who intend to go on to a PhD in a humanities subject; or who wish to obtain further qualifications for an ongoing or future career in business, public service or the cultural sector.(read more)

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Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cultural History of Renaissance England MA

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Course description: This exciting programme invites students to understand Shakespeare's works in the context of the society for which and within which he was writing; it is taught by both English literature scholars and historians, whose areas of expertise range from local history and the English Reformation to textual criticism and the history of Shakespeare in performance.(read more)

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Reasoning MA

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Course description: 2 modules from: the advent of scientific reasoning: Galileo and Descartes to Newton and Kant (30 credits); causal and probabilistic reasoning (30 credits); logical reasoning, fallacies and paradoxes (30 credits); scientific and mathematical reasoning (30 credits); 60 credits drawn from the above and: advanced statistics and methodology (60 credits); cognitive neural networks (30 credits).(read more)

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Antiquity MA

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Course description: The pathways cover the full range of subjects associated with study of the ancient world and offer intensive preparation for further research and a unique opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary research, with a view to a career in the subject area; they deliver professional skills training and the chance to enrich and develop understanding of the societies of ancient Europe and the Mediterranean world.(read more)

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