MA Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Program Overview

The MA Medieval and Early Modern Studies program at Canterbury Christ Church University offers a customizable and future-oriented curriculum that develops research, critical thinking, and professional skills. Through seminars, workshops, and independent study, students explore the past to prepare for careers in cultural, heritage, teaching, and civil service industries. The program emphasizes digital humanities, public history, and employability, providing graduates with an edge in a globalized world.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This program equips you to thrive in a global and digitalized world.

Key Features:

• Customization: Design your own specialist research projects and graduate research dissertation.
• Future-oriented: Study the past to thrive in the future.
• Employability Focus: Develop skills in public history, digital humanities, and heritage.
• Next-level research: Prepare for PhD studies in premodern history and heritage studies.
• Professional edge: Gain an anticipated edge in the cultural, heritage, teaching, and civil service industries.

Outline:

Content:

• Train in advanced and independent research, essay and report-writing, digital humanities and public heritage work.
• Critically interrogate a wide variety of sources.
• Trace the connections between culture, society, politics, and economics.
• Explain change over time.
• Understand past events of enormous importance.

Structure:

• Full-time, 1 year program.
• Located in Canterbury, a World Heritage Site.
• Convenient access to numerous archives in London and Kent.
• Taught through graduate-level seminars and workshops.
• Students present their work and research to others.

Individual Modules:

• Core Modules:
• Themes & Sources in History (20 Credits)
• Supervised Project (20 Credits)
• Dissertation (60 Credits)
• Communicating the Past (20 Credits)
• Optional Modules:
• Additional modules may be available depending on the year of study.

Assessment:

Assessment methods:

• Essays
• Annotated bibliographies
• Mock reports and consultancy papers
• Presentations
• Podcasts or other digital outputs
• Independent research projects
• 60-credit Dissertation project

Teaching:

Teaching methods:

• Seminars focus on sources, developments, and debates in the field.
• Workshops focus on skills training, development, and practice.
• Independent study is crucial for reading, research, and writing.

Faculty:

• You will be taught by full-time academic staff who are specialist authors, researchers, and teachers in their respective historical fields.

Unique approaches:

• The program offers a close community that provides support and encouragement in your studies.

Careers:

Potential career paths:

• Civil service
• Teaching
• Arts and culture industries
• Heritage
• Business consulting
• Marketing
• Insights analytics

Program completion:

• Completing the program is a welcome qualification for various industries.

Other:

• The program is suitable for anyone wishing to return to the academic study of history or to start a new career.
• The program is accessible and rigorous, and you can study History at MA level without having done so before.
• The program delivers a wider historical awareness and prepares you for the professional side of academia.

• UK: £9090 (Full-time)
• Overseas: £15,500 (Full-time)

General Principle Policy:

• Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
• There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year.