MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level in a Humanities subject.

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Many of our graduates have done or are currently doing PhDs or are in academia– both in London and at a variety of other institutions from Oxford and Cambridge to Berkeley and Yale. These include:

• Dr Signy Gutnick Allen, LSE Fellow in Political Theory and former Associate Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of York
• Dr Paul Sagar, Lecturer in Political Theory, King’s College London

Students have also gone on to work:

• at the BBC
• in publishing, at prestigious academic presses like Polity Press
• as political advisers in Westminster, the European Parliament, and on
• congressional campaigns in the US
• at NGOs like Global Witness
• as researchers
• in finance
• in teaching.

• Compulsory core module
• Choose between two and four elective modules
• Dissertation

In addition to the assessed portion of your course, you’ll be expected to attend the fortnightly research seminars in the History of Political Ideas at the Institute of Historical Research. A faculty seminar organised by an academic convenor alternates with an early career seminar organised by research students.

Compulsory/Core modules

• Dissertation – MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
• Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History

Elective modules

• Empire and Early Modern Political Thought
• Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought
• The Enlightenment
• Empire and Early Modern Political Thought
• Capitalism and Political Thought
• Patria and Cosmopolis: Nation, Country, and Humanity in Political Thought, from ancient Greece to the Age of Revolutions
• Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspectives