Голдсмитс, Лондонский университет, MA, Cultural History

In addition to a research methods course students take a core course that introduces them to the range of approaches and concerns of cultural history; this provides a historical and thematic review of the development of the discipline, and its major themes and authors; there are also 3 specialist options from a range of courses that cover medieval to modern history; these allow students to: investigate citizenship and feminism in the early 20th century; focus on the role of cities in and for medieval culture; cover the cultural history of fascist Italy; familiarise yourself with the main debates and methodologies of contemporary thought; examine the development of Islam and Christianity on the African continent; look at the forms, purpose and meanings of public rituals in early modern Europe; consider the relationship between architecture and human experience from the Middle Ages to the present; trace the development of the ideas of 'culture' in relation to 'history' between c.1760-1920.