Course Modules

The dissertation constitutes two taught modules at MA level. It will sustain a positioned argument (thesis) over up to 12,000 – 15,000 words. You will draft a proposal for study which will be discussed initially with their Adviser. Once an […]

The module provides a teacher-led space for you to learn and then practice and engage with historical research of your preference.

This module uses material culture as a lens through which to explore diverse themes within British and European cultural history from the medieval to the modern. Personal identities, politics, and beliefs were all crucial to peoples’ lives during this period,

The module will include discussion on style, form, content, and most importantly on the primary questions to be answered in a dissertation.

This module assesses how warfare has shaped social organisation and cultural representation. You will examine the relationship between war, society and culture to demonstrate the multiform and often contradictory processes that conflict serves to evoke for individuals, communities and wider

You will undertake initial research into a range of contemporary dance and performance related platforms, festivals, projects and artist-development schemes both within the UK and in European or international contexts. You will develop an articulation of your work and practice

The dissertation is the culmination of your postgraduate study. You will develop a substantial dance research project of your choice. You can choose to include a varying amount of dance practice alongside written critical commentary.

Through a combination of lectures, seminars and practical tasks, you will analyse, deconstruct and reconstruct technical exercises and phrases in order to build a critical base of teaching material. Planning, phrase construction and giving corrections will be explored in the

In this module, you will analyse a wide range of dance practices: historical and contemporary, popular and ‘high art’, Western and non-Western. You will consider these in relation to 20th and 21st-century debates about the politics of the body, for

In this theoretical module you will explore how knowledge about dance is rooted in philosophical and aesthetic ideologies, from both historicised and contemporary perspectives. You will look through a wide lens at dance and its evolving beliefs, with the main