MA Culture of the European Renaissance

Minimum requirements 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a related subject.

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We offer a variety of postgraduate funding options for study at the University of Warwick, from postgraduate loans, university scholarships, fee awards, to academic department bursaries.

Graduates from this course have chosen to progress to PhD study and/or pursue a career in academia, museums or galleries, archives, Higher Education and fundraising.

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

• Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
• Careers in the Creative Industries sector event
• Working for More than Profit careers fair and sector event
• Making applications

Core modules

Renaissance Culture and Society (taught at Warwick)

The core module provides an overview of selected methodological and topical issues important for studying the Renaissance and the early modern periods. This ensures you are familiar with a number of different disciplinary approaches to the period (e.g., literature, history, history of art). This module gives you the opportunity to sample the broad expertise of members active in the Centre; prepares you, if you wish, to go on to further study; and encourages you to become effective at sharing and communicating knowledge.

Dissertation

This module forms a core part of this taught MA. As the capstone of such a course, it invites you to develop and display your research and writing skills within the context of an original study of materials related to the Renaissance. The dissertation is developed in consultation with an academic supervisor; normally the research takes place between the end of Term 2 and over the summer term.

Optional modules

Optional modules can vary from year to year. Example optional modules may include:

• Inventing the Renaissance
• Books, Subversion and the Republic of Letters
• Italian Renaissance Humanism
• The Development of English Drama, 1558-1659
• Themes and Approaches to the Historical Study of Religious Cultures