Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2016 | Page 51

Overview

Our Masters of Research in
Humanities offers you the
opportunity to produce a
substantial piece of independent
research and writing and
to undertake wide ranging,
systematic training in research
skills and project management.
You will write a dissertation
in a specific field or prepare
a portfolio of compositions,
a recital or a media project
with a named supervisor.
Supervision is available in all
disciplines where the school
has expertise:
• American Studies
• English
• History
• Local History
• Media, Communications
and Culture
• Medical Humanities
• Music and Music Technology
• Philosophy
• Russian
• Victorian Studies

Key Information
• Individual Research Orientation:
an agreed programme tailored
to the needs of the student
(30 credits)
• Research Training Programme
covering research skills and
reflective practice in the
humanities (30 credits)
• A 20,000 word dissertation
(or equivalent composition or
artistic production) is at the
heart of the course (90 credits)

Module titles

The following is a list of
indicative modules:

MRes

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Entry
requirements

Applicants should hold
a second-class honours
degree (2.1 or above)
in a relevant subject.

Contact email
humanities.mres
@keele.ac.uk

• Research Methods and Political
Analysis (American Studies)
• Methods in Cultural Analysis
(American Studies)
• Criticism, Analysis, Theory
(English)
• Film Theory (Film)
• Approaches to Historical
Research (History)
• Themes in Local History
(History)
• Cultural Theory (Media,
Culture and Communication)

You will be able to develop
your research topic within the
context of current debates
and methodologies in relevant
disciplines and within the
humanities generally.

• Critical Approaches
to Medical Humanities
(Medical Humanities)

Additional information

• Research Orientation (Russian)

You will follow a personally
designed or tailor-made
programme, comprising three
components totalling at least
180 credits:

Course type

HUMANITIES

Humanities

• Approaches to Music Research
(Music)
• Metaphilosophy (Philosophy)
• Research Skills
in the Humanities
• Reflective Practice
in the Humanities

• Research methods in the
disciplinary or interdisciplinary
field relevant to the thesis topic
(30 credits)

www.keele.ac.uk/hums/postgraduatecourses/
mreshumanities

Good to know
“The MRes
team need to be
commended not
only for teaching in
their own specialist
fields from history
to music to English
literature to
philosophy but also
in imparting to the
MRes an integrated
feel to the degree
programme as a
whole” (MRes Senior
External Examiner,
December 2014).
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