Early Modern Studies MA

Pave the way towards a career in academia, the heritage sector or cultural industries through this unique degree. The Early Modern Studies MA teaches crucial bibliography, palaeography and research skills, along with a choice of modules that span art, history, law, literature, politics and science. Taught at UCL, with its renowned scholars and reputation, this degree will give you an essential skillset for your future career. The Early Modern Studies MA will teach you critical reading skills, the ability to assess and weigh evidence, and construct persuasive arguments. It combines training in book history, bibliography, and paleography with a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the early modern period. The course comprises of a dissertation and three compulsory modules: Reframing the Renaissance; Forging the Early Modern; and Unstitching the Early Modern: Archival and Book skills. These core modules are designed to work as a postgraduate-level foundation and provide you with the specific skills to research, write academic essays and the dissertation. Compulsory modules cover a range of disciplines, helping you identify areas of interest for further study and gain the skills required for archival research. You will also take 45 credits of optional modules and be exposed to concepts of research design and research methods, thus gaining the necessary knowledge to develop your research proposal and give you a broad understanding of the early modern period. The course is aimed at students with a degree in a relevant subject who wish to gain the key bibliography, paleography and research skills necessary for a future career in academia or in the heritage or cultural industries.

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.