Register

Search

and / or

Advanced Search

Related Programmes

Did you study here?

Write a short review & help students like you! Over 1,500 students already shared their experience.

Share your study experience now

Stay up-to-date?

Receive relevant New and Updated programmes: personal updates!

PU_Light.jpg

Medieval and Early Modern Studies – (M.A.)

Application Deadline: as early as possible
Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 5,256 - ≈ € 13,116 (non-EEA)
Location: Canterbury / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Credits (ECTS): 60
Languages: English 
1.0708881,51.2984871

Location of University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

This unique interdisciplinary programme provides the opportunity for intensive historical, literary or art-historical study. It challenges you to engage with the evidence and methods of different disciplines in order to equip you with the wide range of research techniques crucial for studying the period.

The MA provides a thorough grounding in the skills required for advanced study in the medieval and early modern periods, as well as a core course in disciplinary methods and an exciting and varied range of optional modules. In addition, you produce a final dissertation of 12-15,000 words, for which you receive one-to-one supervision.


Contents

The School offers a number of distinct MA programmes, and plays a central role in the interdisciplinary MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

The English MA literature programmes aim to increase your knowledge of the key elements that make up the complex nature of English and American literature and culture. The programmes give a wider and deeper understanding of the writers and areas studied, encourage you to probe the theoretical and scholarly issues which you could explore in further research, and offer opportunities to develop your creative writing.

Each MA programme consists of four taught modules and a 12-15,000 word dissertation or equivalent. You must get satisfactory results in your taught modules before going on to spend the final third of your MA course writing a dissertation on a topic of your choice. On the Creative Writing MA the dissertation is replaced with a creative writing project in which a collection of poems or a substantial work of fiction will be produced.

As a basis for work on your dissertation and advanced research, you are also required to take the School and Faculty research methods programmes.

Availability of modules

Not all modules listed here necessarily run every year. Please consult the School for details of availability.

Course content
* Reading Evidence: An Introduction to Method and Interdisciplinarity
* Palaeography and Manuscript
* Latin
* Modules drawn from options such as: Chaucer and Gower; The Consolidation of English Protestantism; The Crisis of Church and State; Early Medieval Archaeology; Encountering the Holy: Devotion and the Medieval Church; The Gothic Imagination: English Art and Literature in the Later Middle Ages; The Image of France in English Culture; Late Antique Archaeology; Medieval and Interlude Drama; Princes, Portraits and Palaces; Shakespeare and Material Culture; Word and Image
* Dissertation

Assessment
Assessment is by coursework and dissertation. The skill modules are assessed by examination.

IELTS

You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.

Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.

Take test

Requirements

A first or upper second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent)

English Language Proficiency for non-native speakers of English:

* 7.0 in IELTS (including minimum 6 in all four modules)


* 100 in iBTOEFL (including minimum 22 in both writing and reading)


* TOEFL paper-based test is not acceptable

Additional Requirements

Minimal degree required: Bachelor's degree
Minimal amount of work experience Not specified

Language Proficiency

IELTS Band: 7.0
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): Grade B (Score: 75)
TOEFL Internet-based: 100

Ask a Question

You can contact Recruitment and Admissions Office to ask a question about Medieval and Early Modern Studies at University of Kent, Canterbury Campus.

Relevant Links


MastersPortal.eu - Finds the Masters for you!
 

Portals

Erasmus Mundus

Erasmus Mundus is a scholarship and co-operation programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world.

Read the article

Why Europe?

Why would you study your Master's abroad? Why in Europe, and, why not? Globalisation is ongoing, the world is your backyard. A new world of study options becomes available!

Read the article

Overseas

Institutes Overseas

anywhere