| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
Explore the influence of significant events and contexts on culture
Develop into an independent researcher in a supportive environment as you meet and learn from experts in the study of cultural history.
Our MA Cultural History course allows you to explore and consider the definitions, evolutions, and theoretical understandings of the effects of historical events on people, their beliefs, and their behaviour.
Why this course?
This course will appeal to anyone who is thoughtful, intellectually curious, and inquisitive about cultural history, and who would like a supportive and stimulating learning environment in which to learn.
We want to help you to develop your academic research, investigative, and writing skills as you work towards a specialism within the area of cultural history that interests you.
We offer full and part time options for both our taught and research masters courses. This allows you to fit your studies around your other commitments.
On this course you will:
Program Outline
Teaching and Assessment
Feel the support of internationally recognised research staff
You will study our MA Cultural History through interactive lectures and seminars, over the course one year full-time and two years part-time.
In each case you will take our four core modules, culminating in a research proposal and accompanying literature review.
In addition to the core courses, staff offer dedicated tutorial time after each taught session and are also available for discussion and consultation online or via individual tutorials.
The Course
Become an active and confident researcher in the field of Cultural History
Our MA Cultural History is an open and flexible programme designed to give you the possibility of exploring the full diversity of this subject across either taught or research pathways.
The course develops you into an active and confident researcher in the broad field of cultural history. We see research as a public activity and the course offers ways in which to explore these processes as engagement in the cultural conversation.
The course is a gateway to MPhil/PhD research, providing an opportunity to focus on your topic of interest, develop your independence in a supportive environment, and refine your research skills.
Taught route
Research route
This list is indicative and subject to change.
The MA comprises of four taught modules and a research proposal with attached literature review.
British Cultural History
Dissertation
Independent ‘Pilot’ Study Module
Material Cultures C.1300-1900
Research Proposal and Literature Review
The Aftermath of War: Society, Politics Commemoration and Heritage
British Cultural History
British Cultural History
In this core module you will engage in advanced, detailed and specific learning across a number of key themes in the formation and representation of British cultural identities. Taught over two semesters it provides a space for you to learn, think and practice a variety of examples of cultural history.
Dissertation
Dissertation
The dissertation constitutes two taught modules at MA level. It will sustain a positioned argument (thesis) over up to 12,000 – 15,000 words. You will draft a proposal for study which will be discussed initially with their Adviser. Once an appropriate supervisor/tutor has been identified, the student will liaise with that tutor in order to plan and negotiate their particular subject and establish an agreed timetable of work. Attention will be focused on aspects that will enable students to arrive at a worthwhile and plausible solution as a result of the knowledge, skills and facilities provided. Those wishing to take this module must ensure that all learning resource implications can be met.
Independent ‘Pilot’ Study Module
Independent ‘Pilot’ Study Module
The module provides a teacher-led space for you to learn and then practice and engage with historical research of your preference.
Material Cultures C.1300-1900
Material Cultures C.1300-1900
This module uses material culture as a lens through which to explore diverse themes within British and European cultural history from the medieval to the modern. Personal identities, politics, and beliefs were all crucial to peoples’ lives during this period, but buildings, clothes, food and objects were how they experienced and crafted these concepts for themselves on a daily basis. As such, this module examines the links between the conceptual and the material as you explore objects in different contexts, including royal palaces, holy sites, religious houses and everyday domestic interiors, and to examine objects as carriers of meaning and agency.
Research Proposal and Literature Review
Research Proposal and Literature Review
The module will include discussion on style, form, content, and most importantly on the primary questions to be answered in a dissertation.
The Aftermath of War: Society, Politics Commemoration and Heritage
The Aftermath of War: Society, Politics Commemoration and Heritage
This module assesses how warfare has shaped social organisation and cultural representation.
You will examine the relationship between war, society and culture to demonstrate the multiform and often contradictory processes that conflict serves to evoke for individuals, communities and wider collectives. You will consider periods including: Medieval and Early Modern attitudes to war; the legacy of the First World War, war in the media; warfare museology.