Eighteenth-Century Studies

Our Eighteenth-Century Studies course is co-taught with the British Museum in London and by lecturers from eight different departments across Arts & Humanities, making it a truly multi- faceted degree, looking at all aspects of the eighteenth century.

You can explore the Enlightenment through race, gender, class, intellectual networks and material culture; analyse ideas, objects, texts and arts and have access to unique, diverse and rich collections in central London, all close to King's, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Society, the Foundling Museum, and Sir John Soane's Museum.

Key benefits:

• Joint degree with the British Museum.
• Unrivalled access to British Museum expertise.
• Unrivalled location for access to London's cultural collections.
• Located in the heart of London.

Minimum 2:1 BA honours degree or equivalent in any appropriate discipline (e.g. English literature, European literatures, history, music, philosophy, history of art, some social sciences).

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Representing the Eighteenth Century (40 credits)
• Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take 80 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• The Body & Society in Early Modern Europe (20 Credits)
• Ritual in Early Modern Society (20 credits)
• The World Novel (20 credits)
• London: Great Fire to Great Exhibition (20 credits)
• Poetic Movements, Poetics Moods 1660-1800 (20 credits)
• Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth Century Theories & Representations (20 credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take Representing the Eighteenth Century in your first year, along with 40 credits of optional modules. In your second year you will take your dissertation module, along with a further 40 credits of optional modules.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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