Literature and Arts

MSt in Literature and Arts

Course Code | 000645

This interdisciplinary programme encompasses literature, history, art and architectural history and philosophy, and focuses on three sequential periods of British culture from Late Medieval to The Nineteenth Century.

The challenges of interdisciplinary study are addressed in two on-line modules, whilst the residences take full advantage of the university’s library, museum and monumental resources to encourage a multi-faceted understanding of the past.

• Length of programme: Two years, part-time study comprising four five-day residences in Oxford and two online components
• Core and optional courses:
  Core courses:
  • British Culture in a Global Context
  • Five Views of c19th Oxford - Methodology and Critical Approaches 1 (Online)
  • An Interdisciplinary Case Study - Methodology and Critical Approaches 2 (Online)
  Optional courses:
  Over 3 residences students take 6 options from a range of disciplines in the humanities relating to British culture in the late medieval/early modern period, the ‘long’ eighteenth century and the ‘long’ nineteenth century.
  
  Subjects may include ‘Bacon, Hobbes and More’, ‘In their own words and images: the English nobility and gentry’, ‘The role of wit, conceit and curious devices in Tudor and Jacobean art and architecture’, ‘Shakespeare in History, ‘The Rise of the English Novel’, ‘Neo-Classicism in England and the Collectors’, ‘The British Empiricists’, ‘Reading and Gender in England’, ‘The Victorian Novel’, ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti’ and ‘The Oxford Movement’
• Programme specification

Students will have full access to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library , the Bodleian Library (including its electronic resources) and other university libraries such as the English Faculty Library, the Sackler Art Library and the History Faculty Library.

The course will also draw upon the resources of the University’s museums and art galleries.

Dr Cathy Oakes (Course Director)

Director of Studies and University Lecturer in the History of Art, Department for Continuing Education, and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Yasmin Khan (Assistant Course Director)

University Lecturer in History, and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Sandie Byrne

University Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, Department for Continuing Education and, Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Elizabeth Gemmill

University Lecturer in History and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr David Grylls

Former Director of Studies and University Lecturer in English Literature, Department for Continuing Education, and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Christine Jackson

University Lecturer in History, Department for Continuing Education, and Fellow of Kellogg College.

Dr Lynn Robson

Lecturer in English Literature, Regent’s Park College

Dr Steve Kershaw

Tutor in Classics, Department for Continuing Education

Dr Peter Wyss

Tutor in Philosophy, Department for Continuing Education, and Associate Research Fellow of Birkbeck College

Future research and career paths might be doctoral programmes, teaching, curatorship, journalism, and a range of creative initiatives

• MSt in the History of Art and Visual Culture (full time)
• MSt in the History of Design (part time)
• MSt in English (full time)
• MSt in Medieval Studies (full time)
• DPhil in Architectural History (part time)