Victorian Studies (MA)
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Drawing on Birkbeck's position as a world-leading centre in the field of nineteenth-century studies, our MA Victorian Studies offers you the chance to take a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to studying the literature, culture and history of Victorian Britain. You will encounter a compelling range of Victorian texts, contexts, themes and ideas on a degree course that does justice to the energy and variety of the Victorian period.
Two core modules introduce some of the most significant debates, ideas and events of the long nineteenth century, and offer you the chance to develop new critical approaches to Victorian studies. These courses are supplemented by a wide range of option modules, which allow you to pursue your own interests in the field of Victorian studies and beyond. You will be supported with one-to-one supervision for your culminating dissertation.
Students in their final year of study have the chance to take an internship module. Successful interns spend a term working with one of London's Victorian cultural institutions, gaining first-hand experience of working in the cultural sector and using their host institution's archives to develop a unique research project. Previous interns have worked with the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, the Salvation Army Heritage Centre and Archive, and the Guildhall Art Gallery, and have developed their projects into funded doctoral research topics.
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About this course
Our students develop the ability to think critically and creatively, and to articulate their ideas persuasively. Intellectual rigour, sensitivity in assessing a diverse range of materials, and informed debate are transferable skills relevant to a range of careers.
Many MA Victorian Studies students pursue academic careers, and Birkbeck is proud of the number of Victorian specialists working in the field today - in Britain, Europe and the United States - whose passion for the period was nurtured and developed on the MA.
Our graduates also pursue careers in the wider education sector, in publishing and editing, the creative arts, in library and archive work, in arts administration, journalism and writing-based careers. Careers of our recent graduates include:
Policy Adviser at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Classics Editor at Penguin Books
Curator at the Guildhall Art Gallery
Company Manager at the Jupiter Theatre in Florida
Director of Education at No More Marking
Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library
Normally a second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in a relevant subject such as English, history, philosophy or history of art, but a degree in other subjects will be considered, as will other qualifications.
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Subjects
- Art
- Modernising Victorians
- Victorians
- Modernising
- Progress and Anxiety
- Death in Victorian Culture
- Victorian Culture
- Victorian Fin De Siecle
- Victorian Supernatural
- Victorian Emotions
- Victorian London
Course programme
You take two core modules, which will introduce you to different types of primary material and different approaches, and you choose two option modules from a range of topics.
In the final phase of your studies you research and write a 15,000-word dissertation.
CORE MODULES- Modernising Victorians
- Progress and Anxiety, 1789-1859
- Death in Victorian Culture
- The Victorian Fin De Siecle
- The Victorian Supernatural
- Victorian Emotions
- Victorian London: Literature, Culture and the Urban Experience
- Victorian Masculinities
- Dissertation MA Victorian Studies
Additional information
Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Full-time home students: £8820 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa
Victorian Studies (MA)