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MA Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Contemporary Studies

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

Situated at the heart of a famous medieval World Heritage site, this MA offers a cutting-edge and student-inspired course of study designed to develop your research, critical thinking, and professional skills, equipping you to thrive in a global and digitalised world. You can customise your degree to suit your interests: you will design your own specialist research projects as well as your own graduate research dissertation, which is an important culmination of graduate study that is recognised by employers across a wide range of industries. Study the past to thrive in the future.

This MA is designed to help you maximize your employability through training in public history, digital humanities, and heritage at postgraduate level. It simultaneously makes available the training and resources necessary to take the next step and pursue PhD level research in premodern history and heritage studies. This course offers you an anticipated edge in the professional job market, particularly in the cultural and heritage industries, in teaching, and in the civil service.

Training in advanced and independent research, essay and report-writing, digital humanities and public heritage work, and in the critical interrogation of a wide variety of sources are some of the most sought-after skills by employers. The course team ensures that postgraduate study remains accessible, and you do not need to have completed a History BA in order to apply. This MA is suitable for anyone wishing to return to the academic study of history after a break to pursue a passion for a historical period, to improve intellectual and communication skills, or to start a new career.

Why study Medieval and Early Modern Studies?

Your future career

Completing a History course to postgraduate level is a welcome qualification in civil service, teaching, the arts and culture industries, heritage, business consulting, marketing, and insights analytics.

Modules

Building on semester 1?s modules considering the interpretation of sources, this module will encourage you to take a similarly critical approach to the scholarly discourse in the constituent disciplines of your MA programme. You will have the opportunity to construct the syllabus alongside staff and your peers reflecting the different interests of the cohort. Themes for consideration might include: how to study emotion, representation, ecocriticism, identity, theory in archaeology, mysticism, and alterity. Both the compulsory modules will equip you with the necessary skills to tackle a dissertation at MA level with confidence. This module will be taught in a reading group format.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,090

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£15,500

Entry requirements

This taught postgraduate course accepts students with a 2:2 degree average or higher in a relevant background discipline.

University information

Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) was first established in 1962 and has, for over 60 years, built an exceptional reputation for the quality of its study programmes. In total there are around 20,000 students enrolled at the university, with a fifth enrolled in a postgraduate qualification. Students study in one of three academic faculties: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social...more