MA in Cultural, Intellectual and Visual History

warburg.sas.ac.uk This 12-month full-time or 36-month part- Investing in your future time programme aims to: The Warburg has inspired my curiosity no end and the course gives About the „ Give students a deep and systematic me such freedom to explore my own Many Warburg alumni have gone on to understanding of the current interests. pursue PhD study at the Institute or other methodological and theoretical Lauren Steele, 2018–19 universities and cultural institutions across degree approaches to examining the cultural, the globe, including the Ashmolean intellectual, and visual history of Museum, Oxford; the Bayerische Akademie; Western Europe The MA in Cultural, “ the National Library, Argentina; and the Why study with us? Intellectual and Visual History „ Enable mastery over the key elements Universities of Cambridge, Copenhagen, of the history of philosophy, science, Notre Dame (US), Padua, UCL, La Sapienza introduces students to the As a student at the Warburg” Institute, literature, the arts, and visual culture, (Rome), Warwick, York, and Yeshiva (New interaction of ideas, images, rooted in the Renaissance and the you will have access to some of the York). Read more about Warburg alumni: early modern period but embracing best resources for the study of cultural, and social history. It gives warburg.blogs.sas.ac.uk. students the skills to study material from the Middle Ages to the intellectual, and visual history in London. advent of modernity the survival and transmission Unparalleled staff contact hours are combined with access to the Institute’s of culture across time and „ Provide the advanced methodological skills required to enable the reading, collections, including the Warburg Library space, with an emphasis on understanding, and critical analysis of with its unique cataloguing system the afterlife of antiquity. All of primary source materials specifically designed to aid research, and our graduates are awarded a „ Develop the skills necessary to which is classified as one of the ‘20 Libraries University of London degree. conduct research in these areas, that Changed the World’.* particularly skills in Renaissance Latin Through the Institute’s research projects, „ Enable students to undertake a fellowship programmes and events, significant piece of research in art and its informal collegiate atmosphere, history and Renaissance culture, students have extensive opportunities including: designing research for networking with an international questions, selecting appropriate community of scholars, which significantly advanced methodological approaches enriches the learning experience and can while critically evaluating their provide ideal connections for your future effectiveness, and undertaking their own analysis of the evidence and career. generating their own arguments Studying in Bloomsbury at the centre of an academic and cultural hub, students also benefit from visits and training sessions at neighbouring institutions including the British Museum, the Wellcome Trust, and the British Library, and further afield The community of academics at the the V&A and Science Museum. London is Institute is inclusive and supportive, regularly named the best university city creating an environment in which all in the world for its welcoming attitude, students are encouraged to develop diversity, and vibrant student-friendly their knowledge and interests in culture. interdisciplinary directions. * oedb.org/ilibrarian/25-libraries-that-changed- “Anna Speyart, 2018–19 the-world ” warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk Teaching, learning, and assessment Structure

Modules are taught by academics at the The programme is supported by an Core modules: terms 1 and 2 Warburg Institute. While the temporal unassessed Methods and Techniques and conceptual anchor of the MA is the of Scholarship core module that will „ Reviving the Past Renaissance, its overall scope stretches from introduce you to the nuts and bolts the medieval era to modernity. It emphasises of scholarly work in late medieval and „ Art History and Renaissance Culture: Image to Action the history of philosophy, ethics, religion, and early modern cultural history (broadly politics along with the cultural, intellectual, conceived). It will prepare you to „ Language and Palaeographical Studies and visual dimensions of civilisations, undertake original research in this field. „ Methods and Techniques of Scholarship (unassessed) both drawing on and foregrounding the The second term will particularly focus interdisciplinary strengths of the Institute. on guiding you through the process of choosing and researching a dissertation All students take four core modules and Option modules: term 2 (two to be chosen) topic. two option modules. The core module on Language and Palaeographical The course is examined as follows: „ Classical Disorders: Architecture, Painting and the Afterlives of the Renaissance Studies includes training at all levels in 1. Reviving the Past: 4,000-word essay „ Cosmological Images: Representing the Universe Late Medieval and Renaissance Latin, as well as palaeography training in one 2. Art History and Renaissance Culture: „ Global Objects in Western Modern Discourses chosen language. Finally, you will have the Image to Action: 4,000-word essay opportunity to conduct an independent „ Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern 3. Language and Palaeographical Studies: research project through the dissertation, examinations in palaeography and Latin, which is completed in the summer term „ Renaissance Painting and the Workshop Tradition Italian or French under the guidance of a supervisor from the „ Renaissance Political Thought from Erasmus to Campanella Warburg. 4. Two option modules: 4,000-word essays 5. Dissertation: 20,000 words „ Religion and Society in Italy

Additional modules may be offered, depending on both student numbers (a minimum of four students required per option) and teaching staff availability; seewarburg.sas.ac.uk/studying for full details.

Dissertation: term 3

„ The opportunity to conduct an independent research project utilising the world-renowned resources at the Institute under the guidance of an academic from the Warburg.

warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk Funding opportunities have been offered a place. To learn more The University of London experience about accommodation options, please visit halls.london.ac.uk/our-accommodation. As part of the School of Advanced Study Cross-institute collaboration is actively The School of Advanced Study and the (SAS), University of London, Warburg encouraged, making us an ideal location Warburg Institute offer a number of students benefit from a collaborative, for interdisciplinary research. funding options, including full scholarships Course summary interdisciplinary research environment. SAS and fee bursaries for both home and Warburg students join a community is a national research hub and the Institute international students. The Institute Degree structure of some 250 students in SAS. They are enjoys close links with its other members, also has an excellent record in securing Full time (one year): Four core modules encouraged to participate in the wider including the Institute of Classical Studies, external funding, and is happy to work and two option modules chosen from activities of the University and are able to the Institute of Historical Research, and the with prospective students on funding a range of topics, plus a dissertation of use the libraries of other colleges. Institute of Modern Languages Research. applications. For details, please visit 20,000 words. warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying. Part time (two years): Year 1: three core modules (including Latin/chosen language Entry requirements and palaeography) and one option module. Year 2: one core module and one option The normal minimum entry requirement module. Students will work on the is an upper second-class honours degree dissertation over both summers, with one- from a British university, or an equivalent to-one supervision during each summer. qualification from a foreign institution, in any discipline in the humanities which is related Part time Plus (three years): Year 1: one to the course. English is the language of core module, part one of Methods and instruction and applicants are required Techniques of Scholarship, Latin/chosen to demonstrate an appropriate level of language, and one option module. proficiency. For more information on Year 2: one core module, palaeography, entry requirements, please visit sas.ac.uk/ and part two of Methods and Techniques graduate-study/entry-requirements. of Scholarship. You will be allocated your dissertation supervisor and begin work on it. How to apply Year 3: one option module and the Other programmes in Cultural, Intellectual and dissertation. Applications should be made online via Visual History the SAS website. For full details of the Fees application process, please visit For up-to-date fees and funding Postgraduate Certificate MRes Cultural, Intellectual and Visual warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying. opportunities, please visit sas.ac.uk/ The PGCert gives students the History funding. opportunity to pursue a personal or This programme is ideal for students who professional interest in their chosen wish to research and write on a complex, Accommodation subject while gaining a postgraduate specialised area of history within the Learn more qualification. It is ideal for students who Institute’s field of study that interests Full-time students, and part-time want to study at a postgraduate level them, while still having the support of students with disabilities, may apply for The Warburg Institute: but who do not want to commit to a taught modules to help develop the accommodation in one of the University warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying full MA. theoretical and methodological skills of London’s award-winning intercollegiate School of Advanced Study: necessary for such a project. Halls of Residence. Our Registry office will sas.ac.uk/study send you housing information after you warburg.sas.ac.uk warburg.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images, and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection, and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching, and a prestigious events and publication programme. The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. Located at the heart of the University of London in Bloomsbury, the School provides an unrivalled scholarly community in which to pursue postgraduate study and research. Students learn from leading specialists in their fields, hone their research skills in highly regarded training programmes, expand their knowledge through an extensive calendar of events, and become part of a worldwide network of humanities scholars. Funding opportunities include AHRC-sponsored London Arts and Humanities Partnership studentships, SAS studentships, and a number of subject-specific bursaries and awards.

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