伦敦大学沃尔伯格学院

About the degree

The MRes in Cultural, Intellectual and Visual History gives students with strong language skills for academic research the opportunity to study the survival and transmission of culture across time and space (with an emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity). The programme also equips students with advanced theoretical and methodological research skills to enable them to undertake and complete a substantial piece of original academic work.

This full-time or part-time programme aims to:

• Give students comprehension of the current methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding the cultural, intellectual, and visual history of Western Europe
• Train students to recognise, critique and articulate complex ideas about the history of philosophy, science, literature, the arts and visual culture, rooted in the Renaissance and the early modern period but embracing material from the middle ages to the advent of modernity
• Draw on already established language skills that are relevant to their chosen area of academic research
• Provide the advanced methodological skills required to enable the reading, understanding and critical analysis of primary source materials.
• Enable students to undertake a significant piece of research in cultural, intellectual and visual history and to develop skills including: designing research questions, selecting appropriate advanced methodological approaches while critically evaluating their effectiveness, undertaking their own analysis of historical evidence and generating their own arguments.

Why study with us?

As a student at the Warburg Institute, you will have access to the best resources for the study of Renaissance art and culture in London. Unparalleled staff contact hours are combined with access to the Warburg Library, with its unique cataloguing system specifically designed to aid research, and the Institute’s Photographic Collection.

This course is ideal for students who have strong academic language skills and wish to research and write on a complex, specialised area of cultural, intellectual and visual history that interests them, whilst still having the support of taught modules to help develop the theoretical and methodological skills necessary for such a project.

Through the Institute’s research projects, fellowship programmes and events, and its informal collegiate atmosphere, students have extensive opportunities for networking with an international community of scholars, which significantly enriches the learning experience and can provide ideal connections for the future careers.

Teaching and Learning

Modules are taught by experienced, research-active academics at the Warburg Institute. All students take one core module and one option module. The programme is supported by an unassessed Methods and Techniques of Scholarship module that will introduce you to the nuts and bolts of the historiography and methods of scholarly work in early modern cultural history. It will support you through workshops to develop and research the topic that forms the subject of your dissertation.