Eighteenth-Century Studies

MA

Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW

Core programme content

Representing the 18th Century
Dissertation

Indicative non-core content

Options may include:

The Body & Society in Early Modern Europe (History Department)
Religion, Science & the Production of Knowledge, (History Department)
Eighteenth Century Writing Gender & Culture, (English Department)
Life Writings 1700-1850, (English Department)
The Construction of Modern Heroism, (History Department)
Melancholia and Hypochondria in the 18th Century, (German Department)
Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political Dissent, (French Department)
Women and the poetics of liberty, (English Department)
Political Thought in the British Atlantic World (History Department)

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT

Seminars; study sessions in museums and galleries; research skill workshops and visits to cultural institutions. Core and optional modules assessed by coursework, plus a dissertation.

KEY FACTS

Programme leader/s

Professor Clare Brant, Department of English Language & Literature

Awarding institution

King's College London

Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)

UK 180/ECTS 90

Duration

One year FT, two years PT, September to September.

Location

Strand Campus; the British Museum; other museums and galleries in central London.

Student destinations