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European Culture and Thought: Thought MA

Taught

Campus in Spring

Compulsory modules:

Research

Compulsory modules:

60 credits from:

Both Pathways

Optional modules (30 credits each):

30 credits of optional modules may be taken for both Taught and Research pathways.

Students can choose any module from any department in the Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences faculties.

Students on this MA programme often choose modules in the following areas of study. All modules listed below are indicative and may not be taught each year.

Visual Studies

  • Art and the Moving Image
  • Materiality and Media in European Culture
  • Weimar and Nazi Film
  • Documentary making
  • Masculinity in Cinematic Adaptations
  • The French New Wave

European Thought

  • Topics in Greek Philosophy
  • Crisis and Future in 19th Century Thought
  • Adorno: Politics and Art
  • Bakhtin and Others: Alterity, Identity and dialogue
  • Modern Theories of Community
  • Political Theologies in the Early Modern and the Postmodern Eras

European Literature

  • Gender, Race and Sexuality in Francophone Literature
  • Dante: Divina Commedia
  • Representations of Trauma: Holocaust Writings
  • The Boundaries of Identity: Loss and Creativity
  • Mourning and Otherness: Medieval and Modern Perspectives on Dealing with Loss
  • Apocalypse Literature: From Romanticism to the Millennium

Cultural History

  • Cultural Heritage and Development
  • Cultural Memory
  • Modern German Art: A Cultural History
  • Witches in history, Fiction and Scholarship
  • Gender and Knowledge in History
  • Cultural, Visual and Historical Representations in France, 1598-1889

Politics and Public Policy

  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Globalisation
  • International Organisations
  • Democracy and Citizenship
  • Policy Making and Regulation in Europe
  • Equality, Justice and Difference

Both pathways should total 180 credits.