MSc Material and Visual Cultures of the Past

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University of Edinburgh

Comments about MSc Material and Visual Cultures of the Past - At the institution - Edinburgh - Scotland

• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements A very good first degree - at least 2:1 honours level, GPA 3.4 or equivalent - in a relevant discipline is normally required.
• Academic title
  MSc Material and Visual Cultures of the Past
• Course description
  Programme
  
  This unique and innovative programme draws on the array of scholarly expertise across the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and provides a broad academic experience for those who wish to combine a small-scale research project at postgraduate level with specialist teaching across a variety of periods and approaches, including different approaches to the material and the visual.
  
  There is a team-taught core course titled Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts, which ranges from the classical age to Hollywood film. Specialist courses include The Material Culture of Gender in 18th-Century Britain, and Roman Imperial Monuments. Students can follow an internship programme at an Edinburgh museum or gallery.
  Learning Outcomes
  
  The programme provides:
  
      * specialist knowledge and understanding of material and visual cultural history;
      * detailed knowledge and understanding of the central theoretical, methodological and historiographical issues that have shaped the field;
      * an understanding of the interaction between historical sources, including visual sources and explanation;
      * an appreciation of the context in which to understand the student's individual area of interest/research within the broad field of material and visual cultural history.
  
  How You Will Be Taught
  
  You will be assessed by means of five assignments of 3,000 words each, and a dissertation of 15,000 words. The assignments arise from the mixture of core and option courses taken by each student.

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