During this one-year full-time course, students will follow three course-work strands:
A: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Humanities
A sequence of five intensive courses to familiarise students with debates and procedures in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines, and enable them to move with confidence between them. For the 2011-2012 academic year the five courses will be:
- Antigone
- Coldness: Towards a Political Thermodynamics of Culture
- Down: Melancholy, Depression and Regeneration
- Experiment
- Scratches, Tracings, Spacings
Students must submit an essay of 4,000 words for each course.
B: Research Methods in the Humanities / Research Development Workshops
At the beginning of the programme students are introduced to methods of pursuing and presenting research across the humanities and social sciences, using practical exercises to build confidence and expertise. In the Spring Term students prepare, present and debate their individual research topics at weekly workshops. These workshops are a key element, serving to instruct and help students define their dissertation topics. The workshops culminate in a series of Research Juries where work is formally presented to students and faculty. Marks for this element of the course are awarded according to student participation over the year and the final Jury presentation.
Further information about the Research Methods course.
C: Dissertation
Master of Research students will write a dissertation of 12,000 words to be submitted by 30 September in the academic year of their degree programme.
Joining the Doctoral Programme
MRes students may apply to join the doctoral programme in the Spring Term. If accepted, they pass directly into the doctoral programme in the following academic year.
