MA "History of Political Thought and Intellectual History" (UCL London)

MA "History of Political Thought and Intellectual History" (UCL London)

Einrichtung
UCL
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
01.09.2015 -
Bewerbungsschluss
30.04.2015
Von
Avi Lifschitz

This MA is a one-year programme jointly administered by University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). The MA draws on the expertise of academic staff from the Colleges and Institutes of the University of London as a whole in the fields of the history of political thought and intellectual history. The programme offers advanced training in intellectual history, the history of political thought and the history of philosophy, spanning the period from the ancient world to the twenty-first century.

The MA also provides students with essential grounding in the various methods and approaches associated with the study of intellectual history developed over the past quarter-century in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Members of staff are drawn from Departments of History, Law, Modern Languages and Literature, Philosophy, and Politics within the University of London.

Degree structure

Students on the programme will take a core course together with a selection of individual course modules, and complete a Masters dissertation. The core course, which runs across two Semesters, is taken by all students and taught at the UCL History Department by a selection of staff within the University of London. In addition to the core, students choose their preferred modules from a menu of specialist options. After the completion of coursework in semesters one and two, the dissertation is undertaken over the spring and summer months, under the supervision of an expert in the relevant subject area. The programme also offers obligatory language training in a modern European language, or in ancient or Medieval Latin.

Teaching staff

Members of staff teaching on this collaborative degree include Quentin Skinner, Valentina Arena, Richard Bourke, Angus Gowland, Julian Hoppit, Axel Körner, Avi Lifschitz, Jason Peacey, Peter Schröder, Gareth Stedman Jones, and Georgios Varouxakis.