School of Advanced Study Prospectus 2011-12

CONTENTS ABOUT THE SCHOOL INSTITUTES OF THE SCHOOL TAUGHT MASTER’S DEGREES Institute of Advanced Legal Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies by distance learning LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice) Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation Postgraduate Certificate in Taxation Institute of Commonwealth Studies MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights Institute of English Studies MA or MRes in the History of the Book The London Rare Books School Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies MRes in Modern Languages: French, German, Hispanic and Italian Institute of Historical Research MA in Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies MA in Comparative American Studies MA in Latin American Studies MA in United States Studies MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development MSc in Latin American Politics MSc in Latin American Studies (Development) MSc in United States Studies: History and Politics Warburg Institute MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 RESEARCH DEGREES MPhil/PhD areas of research Research projects A selection of current research student topics Research training LIBRARY COLLECTIONS INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS MAP OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY AND UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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The School of Advanced Study is a unique institution in UK Higher Education, uniting ten research institutes of international repute, seven of them with significant library resources, to create an outstanding multidisciplinary environment for advanced learning and research in the humanities and social sciences. This prospectus is designed to give an overall picture of the wealth and diversity of academic opportunities that the School offers to intending PhD students, together with the details of a range of different Master’s degrees that are currently on offer.

We hope that you will find it interesting and useful, and above all that it may stimulate you to bring your talents to the School and to participate in the vital and exciting enterprise of pursuing and disseminating knowledge.

Professor Roger Kain CBE FBA Dean and Chief Executive September 2010

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The MA in Human Rights course appealed to me because it seemed to be so full of active, diverse people who I could learn from, and the breadth of study really attracted me. This seemed to be the course that offered the most whilst opening doors and letting me work in a beautiful part of London.

I love how honest and passionate our teachers are and the fantastic opportunities we’ve had, from working one day a week for NGOs, mine was as an intern at ChildHope, to visiting Geneva and networking at the UN. I feel I have personally benefited from the focused learning environment, the connections, the inspirational people surrounding me and the intellectual and supportive atmosphere.

In addition to human rights law and theory, the course has given us useful tools for our future work – how to construct funding proposals, for example – which I’ve already had to lean on in my practical experience. We get to see some seriously inspirational people talking too. The Nobel Peace Prize holder Shirin Ebadi, Tony Benn and Albie Sachs have all spoken at events at the Institute.

My thesis, which I’m finishing off as I write this, is on how individuals in business relate to the effects of their decisions on other humans. It is multidisciplinary – covering law, economics, anthropology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and more. I’ve loved pulling these diverse areas together and feel very lucky to be on a course where original thought is encouraged.

I feel I have benefited enormously from this course. The knowledge I’ve gained and the connections I’ve made have evolved me from a place a year ago when I felt quite daunted and confused, to being in a really driven, focused position. This has been one of the most intense, happy, fast, difficult, wonderful, exciting years of my life. I can’t believe how lucky I’ve been to have had the opportunity to do all that I’ve done on this course.”

Gabriella Wass (UK) MA Understanding and Securing Human Rights

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ABOUT THE SCHOOL The School of Advanced Study brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious postgraduate research institutes in the University of London to offer academic opportunities, facilities and resources across and between a wide range of subject fields in the humanities and social sciences.

research skills programmes for postgraduate students in their own broad disciplines and in certain highly specialist areas. The School also has a programme of general research skills training for its students, complemented by research methodologies courses for those in social science disciplines.

The School is the only institution in the UK that is nationally funded to promote and facilitate research in the humanities and social sciences. Its institutes are dedicated to supporting the research of national and international academic communities in their respective disciplines. The institutes undertake and publish academic research, offer an active programme of events, workshops and seminars, and provide research fellowships and resources for networking and research collaboration. They also contribute to the development of their own substantial library collections, which are unmatched anywhere in the world in relation to their specialist subject areas, and other library collections in the University of London.

The School’s central-London location allows easy access to the academic, cultural, sporting and other facilities of the University and enables students to take advantage of the rich cultural amenities of London. The institutes of the School gain greatly from the participation of visiting researchers and guest speakers working in government, diplomacy, business and development, the cultural and heritage industries, other universities and regular visitors from around the world.

Postgraduate teaching and research training is an important component of the School’s work.

The institutes offer a range of taught Master’s programmes and doctoral supervision across their areas of expertise. Several institutes have well-established

The Bloomsbury area, where the School is located, is often described as having the greatest concentration of books in the world, made up of the three million volumes of the University of London Research Library Services (which include a number of collections associated with the institutes), other University of London libraries such as those at the London School of Economics, King’s College and University College London, as well as the collections of the British Library, the British Museum and a host of other specialist resources.

The School registers about 300 Master’s and research students each year, providing students with the opportunity to receive personal attention from leading academics.

Over a third of the School’s students are from Continental Europe and other overseas countries, contributing to a vibrant global community. As a small and specialised postgraduate institution, its students benefit from a friendly and supportive environment and the opportunity to participate and collaborate in the rich and diverse programme of events and research activities of the School.

The School offers a range of online communities for students and researchers, including: • SAS Study Online – a virtual learning environment incorporating study resources, forums and chat rooms for teachers and students.

• SAS-SPACE e-repository – a repository of electronic publications produced by the School, including theses and dissertations. SAS-SPACE is a stable, permanent archive for digital scholarly and research materials of enduring value produced at, or in association with, the School of Advanced Study.

For more information about the School, please visit our website: www.sas.ac.uk.

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INSTITUTES OF THE SCHOOL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in 1947 as a national academic institution serving all universities through its national legal research library. Its function is to promote, facilitate and disseminate the results of advanced study and research in the discipline of law for the benefit of persons and institutions in the UK and abroad. Its areas of speciality include arbitration and dispute settlement, company law, comparative law, economic crime, financial services law and legislative studies and law reform, and the legal profession and delivery of legal services.

INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES The Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) is a national and international research centre for the study of the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Founded in 1953, it provides an internationally renowned research library available to scholars from universities throughout the world, in association with the Hellenic and Roman Societies. IClS also serves as the meeting place of the main Classics organisations in the UK.

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Founded in 1949, its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and interregional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics and other social sciences. Its areas of specialism include international development, governance, human rights, north-south relations and conflict and security. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK.

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English studies within the University of London and in the wider academic community, national and international. Its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies covers such fields of study as palaeography, history of printing, manuscript and print relations, history of publishing and the book trade, textual criticism, and theory and the electronic book.

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) was established in 2004 with the merger of the Institute of Germanic Studies and the Institute of Romance Studies, founded in 1950 and 1989 respectively. Its purpose is to promote and facilitate the study of the cultures of regions speaking the Germanic and Romance languages across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the humanities.

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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is at the centre of the study of academic history. It provides a stimulating research environment supported by the IHR’s two research centres: the Centre for Metropolitan History and Victoria County History. The IHR is also home to an outstanding open access library, hosts events and seminars and has a dedicated programme of research training.

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH Established in 2006, the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) was set up as a university-wide and national resource with a commitment to foster musical research in all its diversity. The IMR offers a unique meeting point for researchers and postgraduate students across the UK and acts as a hub for collaborative work on a national and international scale.

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY The Institute of Philosophy (IP) was founded in 2005, building upon and developing the work of the Philosophy Programme from 1995–2005. Its mission is to promote and support philosophy of the highest quality in all its forms, both inside and outside the University, and across the UK. Activities divide into three kinds: events, fellowships and research facilitation.

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of United States Studies, both of which were established in 1965. ISA promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching in history and the social sciences on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – and plays a national and international role as a coordinating and information centre for all parts of the hemisphere at postgraduate level in the universities of the UK.

WARBURG INSTITUTE The Warburg Institute (WI), incorporated in the University in 1944, exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition – those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The bias is not towards ‘classical’ values in art and literature: students and scholars will find represented all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean.

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LLM IN ADVANCED LEGISLATIVE STUDIES LLM IN ADVANCED LEGISLATIVE STUDIES by distance learning The LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies builds upon existing resources and staff experience in postgraduate tuition in the field of legislative drafting at the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This LLM is a response to the frequent demand – from students as well as from foreign government departments – for a UK-based postgraduate taught programme in the field of legislative drafting in its broader sense.

Distance learning programme The LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies has been offered by the IALS with considerable success since 2004. Students will now have the opportunity to study this course in a more flexible manner, via distance learning. It is envisaged that the LLM will include a compulsory weeklong intensive residential course in London. This will give students a chance to meet the tutors and other students, and to start their studies with the maximum level of support.

Legislative drafting is often perceived as a technical skill, which one learns on the job. The view of the Sir William Dale Centre, as eloquently put by its founder and its staff in numerous publications, has always been that legislative drafting encompasses the theoretical analysis and practical application of the whole process of legislating. Legislative drafting has evolved to become the bedrock of political, economic and social transformation. It is still, however, relatively unexplored as an academic discipline. The LLM examines issues related to the legislative process, constitutional law, the methods of drafting in a modern democratic context, legislative ethics and law reform.

Teaching methods for the remainder of the course include extensive online materials per session, such as: PowerPoint presentations, handouts and a number of academic sources for essential and further reading; online discussions with tutors and fellow students on the traditional LLM and the LLM via distance learning; private reading and independent research; and individual tuition and support via email for coursework and dissertation, for which a dissertation supervisor is assigned.

The LLM is divided into two pathways: the Common Law Direction and the EU Direction.

Part-time students take two courses in the first year of study and one course or two EU modules and the dissertation in their second year.

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Careers The majority of students taking the LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies are legislative drafters, law professionals, government legal officers or consultants in the field of legislative drafting and legislative studies. Some are graduates of law, politics, government or other relevant disciplines who are interested in seeking employment in government, international institutions or international law and consultancy firms. In the past the LLM has been successfully used as a qualification for employment or promotion in government or the non-governmental sector. The vast majority of our graduates are currently employed either in government (local or central) as drafters/legal officers or as drafters in law firms.

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LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies Degree code: JTALS Credit value: 180 Structure: Three two-term courses plus a dissertation of 10,000–15,000 words or two two-term courses and two one-term modules plus a dissertation of 10,000–15,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students take two courses in the first year of study and one course or two modules and the dissertation in the second year of study.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,995; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,497.50; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £10,955.

Distance learning fees (2010–11): £4,200 p.a for Home/EU students and £7,875 p.a for Overseas students.

Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk/postgrad/courses/cls_MA.htm

Pathway

Courses and modules*

Term

Common Law Direction

Legislative Drafting

Full year

Comparative Legislative Studies

Full year

EU Legislative Studies

Full year

Legislating for EU Membership and Accession (Jean Monnet module)

Spring/ Autumn

Theories of European Integration (Jean Monnet module)

Autumn

Themes of Legislative Studies

Full year

EU Direction

Both pathways

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The legislative studies

programme is an innovative course which caters for the lacuna in academic institutions around the world of not offering much-needed training in legislative studies. I am glad to have taken part in this programme and the experience I have gained will transform me into a better drafter. The course is professionally organised, from the material offered through to teaching methods applied, and I would recommend this LLM to all drafters, regardless of their experience and background. The training in structural thinking and writing is of benefit to all students wherever they may end up, whether in drafting, private law practice, the bench or academia.”

Mookamedi Morwaagole (Botswana) LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies

Dissertation

*Please note that the Institute reserves the right to withdraw some elective modules in an academic year, if there are insufficient student numbers choosing these modules.

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LLM IN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, FINANCIAL REGULATION AND ECONOMIC LAW This innovative programme builds on the Institute’s research expertise in company law, corporate governance, international economic law, financial regulation and financial law.

The programme is taught by leading academics from the University of London and other European and North American universities.

The courses on offer will analyse corporate governance, financial regulation and international economic and financial law from European, comparative and international perspectives.

The main themes covered include the role of international economic organisations in globalised financial markets and the emerging legal and regulatory institutions that govern national, European and international financial markets. The European and American legal and regulatory regime will be an important area of focus, including the various institutional models of regulation such as the single regulatory approach of the UK Financial Services Authority.

Core courses will focus mainly on an academic analysis of the relevant legal and regulatory concepts and principles. Optional courses offered by legal and regulatory practitioners will address the practical aspects of corporate governance, financial regulation and international financial transactions.

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The programme is designed for those with a background in law, economics, business and/or other social sciences and for mid-level professionals and academics who wish to develop a specialised understanding of corporate governance concepts and the role of financial regulation in today’s globalised financial markets.

The IALS is uniquely qualified and situated to offer this academic law degree programme in London – the world’s leading international financial centre.

Core courses* International Corporate Governance and Transnational Corporations International Capital Markets Law and Securities Regulation Dissertation

Elective courses Bank Corporate Governance The Law of International Trade and Finance International Economic Law and Organisations Money Laundering and Financial Regulation International Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Extraterritorial US Financial Regulations UK Banking and Securities Regulation

*Please note that the Institute reserves the right to withdraw some elective modules in an academic year, if there are insufficient student numbers choosing these modules.

Comparative European Banking and Securities Regulation Foundations of Economic Regulation

LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law Degree code: JTICG Credit value: 180 Structure: Six term-long courses, consisting of two core courses and four electives, plus a dissertation of 10,000–15,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Students must complete six taught modules, including two core modules, and the dissertation. Part-time students are to take three modules in their first year and three modules and the dissertation in their second year. Part time students should take one core module each year.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,900; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,450; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £10,212.

Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk/postgrad/courses/LLM_ICGFR.htm

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MA IN TAXATION (LAW, ADMINISTRATION AND PRACTICE) The MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice) is an advanced level programme in all aspects of taxation, including tax law, tax administration, tax policy and taxation in practice. It is aimed at those who have decided that they intend to devote a substantial part of their working careers to the field of taxation, whether as government officials, tax advisors or in-house tax specialists. Applications are particularly welcomed from those with several years of experience in the taxation field, whether in government or in the private sector.

The degree is not focused solely on UK taxation, and applications are particularly welcomed from overseas candidates.

The programme is not limited to tax law, and applicants are not required to have a prior law degree, nor a prior degree or professional qualification in accountancy or taxation. Just as tax in practice attracts bright individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds, this programme is devised for those who come from a range of academic disciplines.

The programme is designed to be completed over one year (fulltime) or two years (part-time). The programme is modular, and each candidate is required to complete ten modules, most involving approximately 24 hours of classroom time. The teaching is designed to make the degree accessible to those who are working and studying parttime, with all the teaching being undertaken in the evenings, over weekends, or sometimes in ‘block weeks’.

There are no core or required courses, and students may choose whatever courses are most appropriate to them from those on offer.

The teaching is carried out by some full-time academics, but a large part of the teaching is done by part-time academics who are also in practice.

There are also guest lectures.

Knowledge and understanding Students will acquire a detailed knowledge of those areas of taxation law, tax administration and tax practice which they choose to study. They will learn to look at tax problems in a more holistic fashion and apply a policy- and principlesoriented approach. They will also develop their research and writing skills.

Students will acquire a sense of having joined an elite of taxation specialists from around the world, and a network of similar individuals whom they may encounter throughout their subsequent professional lives in a range of situations, from handling clients jointly to negotiating double taxation conventions across the table from one another.

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I embarked on the LLM in

International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law in 2009, and I am highly impressed.

The best thing about the LLM is the unique emphasis that the IALS places on dealing with students on an individual level. I feel that the personal attention and help provided by a highly qualified faculty makes this degree very rewarding and challenging as well as flexible and fun. Participatory events including mooting and debating encourage a deeper understanding of the subject matter and excellent library facilities and online resources make study and research easy and convenient.”

Haseeb-Ur-Rehman (UK) LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law

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MA IN TAXATION (LAW, ADMINISTRATION AND PRACTICE) cont.

MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice) Degree code: JTTAX Credit value: 200 Mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Students must complete ten modules, each comprising approximately 24 hours of teaching time. There are no compulsory courses. Students may substitute a 15,000 word dissertation of original work in place of 3 taught modules.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £8,300, Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,150; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,250.

Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk/postgrad/courses/MA_tax_law.htm

Modules*

Term

Introduction to the UK Tax System

Autumn

UK Corporate Taxation

Autumn

UK Taxation of Trading Income

Spring

UK Taxation of Corporate Finance

Spring

Value Added Tax

Autumn

Comparative Tax Systems

Autumn

International Taxation 1: Basic Principles

Autumn

International Taxation 2: Double Taxation Conventions

Spring

International Taxation 3: International Tax Planning

Summer

International Taxation 4: Advanced Tax Treaties

Summer

European Union Tax Law I: EC Laws on All Forms of Taxation

Autumn

European Union Tax Law 2: Direct Tax Case Law of the ECJ

Spring

Comparative Corporate Taxation

Summer

The Protection of Taxpayers

Summer

The Ethics of Taxation

Spring/summer

Introduction to US International Taxation

Summer

Dissertation *Please note that the Institute reserves the right to withdraw some elective modules in an academic year, if there are insufficient student numbers choosing these modules.

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With a career of ten

years exclusively dedicated to tax law, I had long been waiting for a modular and flexible part-time postgraduate degree like the MA in Taxation. The least I can say is that the MA exceeded my expectations.

Teaching is technically world-class as expected but much more interactive than I anticipated, rendering lectures much more lively and stimulating.

Secondly, my colleagues have a varied and rich academic and professional background, which ensures that discussions have very high standards, significantly enhancing the learning environment.”

Rui Camacho Palma (Portugal) MA in Taxation

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN TAXATION The Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation from the University of London is a new academic qualification in the taxation field.

It allows students the opportunity to undertake six modules from the MA in Tax Programme and obtain an academic qualification in taxation.

The Diploma enables tax practitioners, government officials, accountants, lawyers, non-lawyers, and the general public to obtain a specialist tax qualification. Normal minimum entrance requirements apply (see Information for Applicants, p.44). Applications will also be considered from candidates who do not meet the formal academic requirements, but who offer alternative qualifications and/

or relevant experience. Each application will be assessed on its own merits.

The Diploma is designed to interlink with the MA in Tax Programme by allowing students who have successfully obtained the Diploma in Taxation to transfer their credits to the MA in Tax degree programme. The Diploma in Taxation may be seen as a stand-alone qualification or as a stepping stone to the MA in Tax degree.

To obtain the Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation students must pass the six modules attended.

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TAXATION The Postgraduate Certificate in Taxation from the University of London is a new academic qualification in the taxation field. It allows students the opportunity to undertake three modules from the MA in Tax Programme and obtain an academic qualification in taxation.

The Certificate is designed to interlink with the Diploma in Taxation and the MA in Tax Programme by allowing students who have successfully obtained the Certificate in Taxation to transfer their credits to either a Diploma in Taxation or the MA in Taxation degree programme.

The Certificate enables tax practitioners, government officials, accountants, lawyers, non-lawyers, and the general public to obtain a specialist tax qualification. Normal minimum entrance requirements apply (see Information for Applicants, p.44). Applications will also be considered from candidates who do not meet the formal academic requirements, but who offer alternative qualifications and/or relevant experience. Each application will be assessed on its own merits.

The Certificate is also designed to give students the opportunity to obtain a stand-alone qualification in taxation by studying taxation modules from those available on the MA in Tax Programme.

The Certificate may also be useful for students undertaking the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) since the EU Tax and International Tax Law modules will prepare students for Papers I (Principles of International Taxation)

PG Diploma / PG Certificate in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice) Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): PG Diploma (6 modules – 120 credits): Home and EU students: £5,230; Overseas: £7,000 PG Certificate: Home and EU students studying three modules (60 credits) £2,740; four modules (80 credits) (in support of an ADIT qualification) £3,570; Overseas students* studying three modules (60 credits) £3,625 Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk/ postgrad/courses/PG_Dip_Tax. htm *Overseas students who wish to study for either the PG Certificate or Diploma should check www.ukvisas.gov.uk/ en/howtoapply/ regarding visa requirements.

and III (Principles of Corporate and International Taxation: European Community option). Teaching for these modules is usually held at weekends to allow students to “flyin” for 12 hours of teaching.

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MA IN UNDERSTANDING AND SECURING HUMAN RIGHTS This degree is aimed at those who are already, or wish to become, human rights professionals or activists and those who wish to pursue an academic career in the field of human rights. In addition it is suitable for academics, journalists, public servants and employees of intergovernmental agencies. The degree is offered on a 12-month full-time or 24-month part-time basis. In contrast to many other such programmes which place an emphasis on law, this degree is interdisciplinary in character, drawing upon philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations, cultural studies and development studies as well as law.

Lecturers are both academics and human rights practitioners.

The Institute’s location in London means that the MA programme offers access to a wide range of organisations working in the field of human rights, many of which have a keen interest in the programme and regularly contribute to discussions. These include Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Human Rights Watch, Article 19, INTERIGHTS, Penal Reform International, Minority Rights Group, Redress, Medical Foundation for the Care of Torture Victims, the British Refugee Council and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. In addition, we regularly invite journalists and documentary film makers with an interest in human rights to show their films and talk to students about their work.

The degree: • Provides a unique interdisciplinary perspective for students seeking a theoretical understanding of and practical training in human rights.

• Offers the opportunity to participate in a voluntary placement programme with human rights organisations.

• Provides skills and strategic insight designed to further careers in human rights activism, international law, non-governmental organisations, governmental and intergovernmental sectors, and academia.

• Encourages diversity of intake in terms of experience, qualifications and interests to stimulate the learning experience and environment.

For the voluntary placement with a human rights organisation, students spend on average one working day per week, during the degree, with the relevant agency. Experience has demonstrated that such placements provide students with an advantage in finding good career opportunities on completion of the programme, and also help them gain a valuable perspective during the programme itself.

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In addition, students participate in an annual study tour to Geneva, meeting with representatives of international and UN bodies, as well as experts from international NGOs.

Curriculum The MA taught modules are interdisciplinary and practiceoriented. They cover theories of human rights and human rights violations, various contexts of human rights violations, human rights research, practice and advocacy and human rights law.

Students take a combination of compulsory and optional modules plus a dissertation. For additional credits, students may also choose to take one extra module and/or the assessed component of the human rights internship.

Careers Most students take the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights with a view to becoming human rights professionals and activists. Some choose to go on to do further academic study. Former students have secured paid employment with organisations including ActionAid, Amnesty International, AntiSlavery International, International Committee of the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, Minority Rights Group, Oxfam, Rights and Humanity and UNICEF. On several occasions employment opportunities have arisen as a result of the student placement programme. Some overseas students have also been seconded to do the degree and after completing the MA return to their jobs in government or the nongovernmental sector.

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MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights Degree code: MTCHR Credit value: 120/180 Structure: Three compulsory modules in the autumn term, three optional modules in the spring term and a 15,000 word dissertation, which is completed over the summer. For additional credits, students may also choose to take one extra module and / or the assessed component of the human rights internship.

Mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students in their first year begin the autumn term with the compulsory modules: Understanding Human Rights I and The Foundations of International Human Rights Law. In the spring term of the first year, parttime students can then select to take either one or two optional modules.

In the second year, part-time students start in the autumn term with the compulsory module: Securing Human Rights I followed by either one or two optional modules in the spring term. All students must complete a minimum of three compulsory modules and three optional modules. Please note that Securing Human Rights II is only available as an option in the second year. Part-time students may undertake more than one internship, e.g. in both years and/or during the summer between years one and two.

The dissertation is to be completed over the summer of the second year.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,990; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,495; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £10,950.

Website: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study.html

Module

Compulsory [C] or Optional [O]

Term

Understanding Human Rights I

C

Autumn

Understanding Human Rights II

O

Spring

Securing Human Rights I

C

Autumn

Securing Human Rights II

O

Spring

The Foundations of International Human Rights Law

C

Autumn

Topics in International Human Rights Law

O

Spring

Optional Module: The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America

O

Spring

Optional Module: Researching Human Rights: Social Research Methods

O

Spring

Optional Module: Human Rights Internship

O

Flexible

Dissertation

C

Summer

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The MA in Human Rights

at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies provides the perfect balance between theoretical and practical approaches. As a student of the Institute, I have benefited from access to invaluable academic resources, such as a wide range of bibliographic material, conferences and courses. Guest speakers attend our classes and share with us their experience of being practitioners or academics working on specific areas of human rights. The course also includes an internship scheme and a study visit to Geneva, aimed at helping students develop a deeper understanding about the work of UN human rights bodies and international non-governmental organisations. This MA has complemented my practical experience with a solid theoretical foundation. It has broadened my perspective on the field of human rights and it has given me the tools and skills to improve my professional development and become a qualified public servant. It has been an enjoyable and rewarding professional and personal experience.”

Helietta Gonzalez-Hernandez (Mexico) MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

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MA or MRes IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK The University of London’s postgraduate degree in the History of the Book was inaugurated in 1995 and each year attracts a range of students from many countries.

The University’s location in the centre of London and the unrivalled resources for all aspects of book history within easy reach, together with the expertise which exists in its many colleges and institutes, makes it an ideal place in which to carry out fundamental research of an interdisciplinary nature.

The history of the book has been the focus of increasing scholarly attention over the past 30 years.

The field has developed through a process of discovering in the book new potentialities for insights into a broad range of scholarly problems.

Originally considering mainly physical aspects of the book and the details of its manufacture and trade, scholars have come to see the study of the book as an aid to understanding literary texts and, more recently, as a focus for insight into social, cultural and intellectual processes in history.

The history of the book is thus a subject which encompasses the history of literate culture. Its focus includes not only books, but also newspapers, magazines, chapbooks and broadsides. Because the book did not begin with the invention of printing, the programme will also consider the manuscript book in all its forms from the pre-classical, classical and medieval periods.

The book is a material object. One way to study it, therefore, is to study its physical attributes. We can ask what form the book takes in different periods, and how that form developed over time. Because it is a manufactured object, we can also investigate the processes by which it is made. By considering conditions of manufacture, however, we are led not only into discussion of the book as physical object, but also the social, economic and cultural relations entailed in a book’s production. The book is a centre of a web of authors, suppliers, producers, distributors and consumers. It exists in a context of social factors, which inevitably influence its production and distribution.

We could investigate a similar network for the production of virtually any other manufactured object, but the book is different from these objects because it also has intellectual content.

The book is, therefore, itself an actor in society, although one whose effects are varied, depending on circumstances of production, commerce, tastes and politicoreligious regulations. Over the past 30 years the study of the history of the book has moved towards considering the dynamics of the interaction of the book and society, looking both at the effects society has had on the book, and at the way the book has influenced society.

This degree can also be taken as an MRes.

MA or MRes in the History of the Book Degree code (MA): NTEHB Credit value: 180 Structure (MA): Six taught courses (two required courses and four option courses) plus a dissertation of 15,000 words.

Structure (MRes): Three taught courses selected from those available on the MA or the London Rare Books School programmes under the guidance of the Course Director and Course Tutor, plus a dissertation of 30,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months fulltime or 24 months part-time.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Fulltime Overseas Master’s students: £11,793.

Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ study/MAHOB/index.htm

Required courses The Medieval Book Printed Texts 1450-2010 Research Methodology

Optional courses 2011–12 (provisional) The Historical Reader (Autumn) The Serial and the Book (Autumn) Western Book Structures (Spring) The Look of the Book (Spring)

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THE LONDON RARE BOOKS SCHOOL The London Rare Books School offers a range of individual, creditbearing, postgraduate courses in book history and related subjects. The courses are taught intensively in small groups of no more than 12 students.

The courses run over five days and consist of 20 hours of contact time in the form of seminars taught by distinguished international scholars.

Although based in the Senate House Library in Bloomsbury, we shall use other institutions such as the British Library, the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Taking the courses for credit Any LRBS student who wants to take a course for credit can do so by submitting a pass-quality 5,000 word essay within two months of taking the course (an additional fee will be payable). These credits (in the form of CATS or ECTS points) can then be taken away by the student and used at his or her home university or, alternatively, be accumulated within the London system. This will allow a student to build up credits towards a Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma in the History of the Book.

Provisional list of courses for 2011 to include The Book in the Ancient World (week 1) The Medieval Book (week 1) The Printed Book in Europe (week 1) Introduction to Bibliography (week 1) A History of Maps and Mapping (week 1) Children’s Books (week 1) European Bookbinding (week 1) Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Book (week 2) Reading, Writing and Sending Texts 1400-1919 [new course] (week 2) Book Illustration (week 2) Modern Literary Manuscripts (week 2) Modern First Editions (week 2) A History of Paper and Paper-making [new course] /or History of Libraries [new course] if on offer) (week 2) A History of Newspapers and Periodicals 1640-1919 [new course] (week 2)

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I work as a freelance

indexer and proof-reader and found out about the MA in the History of the Book from a client. I decided to take the course because I have always been interested in the book as an artefact as well as the history of information transmission.

The course has encouraged me to make more use of electronic resources and I have become more self-reliant in my research techniques.

The course covers the history of the book from the time of clay tablets and papyrus scrolls to the present day with electronic documents. It gives an overview of various technological and stylistic changes through the centuries.

As an indexer I am interested in the development of indexing as a profession within the book trade and my master’s project is on the history and development of indexing, covering manuscripts, printed books and the development of professional bodies for indexers.

After I graduate, I intend to return to full time indexing and to expand my business to a full time venture. As a result of my further study, I could go into several areas of work including information management, indexing, public sector administration and anywhere that requires an enquiring mind and a can-do attitude. ” Janet Reed (UK) MA in the History of the Book

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MRes IN MODERN LANGUAGES: FRENCH, GERMAN, HISPANIC AND ITALIAN The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies has a strong comparative base in its constituent languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. This MRes has been designed to maximise flexibility of choice and outcome, offering opportunities to those who would like specific training for postgraduate research in modern languages, aiming ultimately at a PhD, those who want to take a challenging end-stopped Master’s and/or those who have one, two or three modern foreign languages.

This programme is intended mainly as a route into higher research in which research training is accompanied by two terms of guided essay writing (assessed by essay 1 and essay 2) in addition to the dissertation.

The MRes combines a significant research component, which will enable students to demonstrate initiative and creativity, with elements designed to broaden their experience by equipping them with a range of transferable skills.

Training, essays and dissertation are taught or supervised, as applicable, by a team of over 40 academics from universities in London and beyond.

Their specialisms include postcolonial studies, gender studies, comparative literature, anthropology, art history, city studies, travel-writing, life-writing, philosophy and critical theory. This provides a uniquely rich source of expertise across the interdisciplinary field of modern languages. Teaching and supervising is normally in English, but the subject language may be used by agreement, and native speakers of French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish may write some of their assessments in the language.

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MRes in Modern Languages: French, German, Hispanic and Italian Degree code: GTRES Credit value: Structure: Two essays, one per each term, plus the Research Training Workshops and assignments and a dissertation of up to 40,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students will normally take the Research Training Workshops and the two essays in year 1, and the dissertation in year 2.

Competence in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish: All applicants must demonstrate a high level of competence in written and spoken French and/or German and/or Italian and/or Portuguese and/or Spanish. The level of competence in the modern language will be tested at interview and/or by the submission of a recent uncorrected piece of written work.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,794.

Website: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate/mamres-programmes/mres-inmodern-languages.html The degree also takes advantage of the rare opportunities for research training and seminar attendance offered by the Institute and the School, the excellent resources of Senate House Library in the field and the exceptional holdings in the 100,000-volume Germanic Studies collection, and the existence in IGRS of Research Centres for Exile Studies, Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature, Contemporary Women’s Writing and Cultural Memory Studies.

Doing these essays allows students to study one-to-one with an expert in their chosen topic, exactly as they will do for the dissertation, at a more preparatory level. Students have the opportunity, if they wish, to select one essay in one language area and the second essay in another.

Alternatively, they may work on comparative topics for each, or indeed both. Students may develop an allied area in their dissertation and continue these studies to a PhD at the IGRS or elsewhere.

Degree structure Students choose two essay topics in advance, according to their specified field, and will be supervised by one or two specialists in this area. Term 1’s work will be more general, term 2 will be more focused, leading to the dissertation which will be the most focused. To give one example, if the chosen field of study is French, students may write essay 1 on ‘French Romanticism’ and essay 2 on ‘The Romantic novel of the 1830s’.

Alongside essays, students will participate in the research training workshops run on Saturdays at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. The assessment of the Research Training will take the form of a draft bibliography and plan for the dissertation. The Saturday workshops are supplemented with workshops running through the year, on a range of topics from induction to the course, dissertation writing, library induction days.

Institute of Historical Research

MA IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH The Institute of Historical Research is well placed to offer a degree in historical research. It has two active research centres, an open access library, a weekly seminar and annual events programme, specialised research training programmes in research methods, language information and information technology and unrivalled digital resources.

This degree enables students to undertake assessed work and independent projects in the historical issues and controversies that interest them most. Students are introduced to key historical approaches, sources and methods and learn to apply them to their particular subject field. The course offers wide-ranging research training, and importance is placed on the use of architecture, material culture, archaeology and literature to aid historical research and understanding. Field trips and museum visits form a key part of the training programme. The degree can be undertaken in any historic area where Institute of Historical Research staff have supervisory competence.

MA in Historical Research Degree code: RTIHR Credit value: 180 Structure: Two compulsory modules and an option course, plus a dissertation of 15,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months fulltime or 24 months part-time.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,110; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,055; Fulltime Overseas Master’s students: £10,745.

Website: www.history.ac.uk/ degrees

Core courses Historical Training: Methods and Approaches to Historical Research History in Context: Cities, States and Localities in History Option module: The special project is an original extended assignment based around the individual student’s particular area of interest. It requires students to show that they can analyse primary source material in an effective and convincing way and place it in context to throw new light on a specific historical problem or controversy. The project may focus on a particular historical event or how a particular cultural activity (such as an exhibition, film or play) has interpreted such an event. Students will not be required to attend formal weekly classes but they will attend group discussions on the practical application of historical methods and at least four supervisory sessions.

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As I hadn’t taken a

degree in history, many programmes I looked at required me to take several prerequisites before I could apply. The programme at the Institute of Historical Research wasn’t straight history, but historical research, and was thus more open to students of other disciplines. This meant that I could apply straightaway, and the focus on methods of researching history rather than say on a specific historical period was exactly the right fit for me.

I’ve definitely narrowed and deepened my focus, so while I studied a lot of subjects as an undergrad, it’s been pretty much straight history as an MA student. But rather than feeling restricted, it makes me feel a sense of accomplishment when I can confidently contribute to the academic conversation on a historical point.

I can add the research skills and historical knowledge of my MA degree to the writing and editing skills I learned as an undergrad, which will make me more marketable as a writer, and editor, a research assistant, or a hundred other such jobs. After I graduate I’d love to pick up an internship or two in some archives to gain a bit more practical experience before heading back to work.

For my studies, there’s literally no better place than London in the world to be. The resources and facilities available here are simply staggering in their scope.

Meagan Brady (USA) MA in Historical Research

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Institute for the Study of the Americas

Institute for the Study of the Americas

MA IN CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES What do the tiny island states of the Caribbean have in common with Latin American giants such as Argentina or Brazil? How do we explain the existence of English, French and Dutch-speaking nations on the South and Central American mainland? Is Cuba Latin American or Caribbean? This interdisciplinary and comparative degree broadens the lens on the region to encompass the diverse societies of both the South American continent and the islands of the Caribbean archipelago. The degree offers a unique opportunity to study differences and commonalities in the histories, politics, economies and cultures of the different linguistic territories of the region, contributing to a broader understanding of issues affecting the region as a whole: colonialism and imperialism; race and ethnicity; economic and social development; the environment; globalisation; migration; cultural diversity; and the local and global currents shaping the region today.

The compulsory core courses provide a sound interdisciplinary foundation in the modern Caribbean.

Students then choose from a wide range of courses on Latin America and the Caribbean from a variety of disciplines, including political science, history, sociology, literature and economics.

The aim of the degree is for students to develop an understanding of the diverse societies of both the

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South American continent and the Caribbean archipelago from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. All too often ‘Latin America’ and ‘the Caribbean’ are studied in isolation. This degree encourages students to take a more holistic approach to the region, broadening their understanding to encompass not only the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking territories but also the Anglophone, Francophone and Dutch territories of the mainland and islands. By the end of the programme they should be able to demonstrate a broad empirical knowledge of this region from the perspective of at least two disciplines.

They should possess an awareness of the general patterns of differences and commonalities in the histories, politics, economies and cultures of

the different linguistic territories of the region, contributing to a broader understanding of issues that affect the region as a whole. They will also be introduced to the principal theories that seek to explain those patterns.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic that will focus principally on (a) the Caribbean or (b) Latin America and the Caribbean. Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

MSc in Caribbean and Latin American Studies Degree code: FTCALA Credit value: 180 Structure: Students take a total of six one-term course units (or equivalent), two of which are compulsory: The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution and Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean. The wide range of course options is made possible by the concentration of academic expertise on the region in the Colleges of the University of London as well as in the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months parttime. Part-time students will normally take the core course and three optional courses in year 1, and the remaining two optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm

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Compulsory course

Credit value

Term

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

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Spring

Optional courses

Credit value

Term

Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia (Goldsmiths)

20

Autumn

The International Politics of Latin America

20

Autumn

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Autumn

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

20

Autumn

Imagining the Modern Caribbean (Queen Mary)

20

Autumn

Text, Image and Texture: History and Archaeology in 16thCentury Mexico (UCL)

20

Autumn

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 1: The Post-Colonial Nation, Slavery and the Indian (King’s) (P)

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Autumn

Development in Latin America

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Autumn

Brazil from Independence to the Present (King’s)

20

Autumn

Social Anthropology of the Caribbean (Goldsmiths)

20

Autumn

Brazilian Government and Politics

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Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the 21st Century

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Autumn

The United States and Latin America

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Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

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Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

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Optional courses (cont.)

Credit value

Term

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

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Spring

Democratisation in Latin America

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Spring

Music of the Americas: Politics, Indigeneity & Performance (Royal Holloway)

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Spring

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of Modernity (P) (King’s)

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Spring

Brazilian Populism, Culture and the State (King’s)

20

Spring

Ten Themes in Modern Latin American History (King’s)

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Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

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Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

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Spring

Brazilian Popular Music Studies (King’s) (P)

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Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Cultural Studies (King’s) (P)

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Autumn/ Spring

The Latin American Colonial Experience (King’s)

40

Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Development: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism (LSE)

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Autumn/ Spring

Nationalism and National Identity in 20th-Century Latin America (UCL)

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Autumn/ Spring

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MA IN COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES What does it mean to be American?

The aim of this interdisciplinary MA is to answer this question in its truest sense by exploring the Americas plural. Students will take on the study of a region united both in name and historical experience, yet also a region of enormous diversity – of power, language, culture, resources and political systems. The degree provides an opportunity to take courses on Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States, and to consider the transnational linkages that characterise the hemisphere.

Students develop an understanding of the development of the western hemisphere in the modern era (1750–2000) founded on a multidisciplinary approach and from a comparative perspective. By the end of the programme they should be able to demonstrate a broad empirical knowledge of North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. They should possess an awareness of the general patterns of difference and similarity as well as of the theories that seek to explain those patterns. Students will simultaneously acquire a more specialised discipline-based knowledge of three distinct regions of the hemisphere.

Course credit value

Group A – United States courses

Term

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

American History on Film (UCL)

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Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

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Spring

US Presidents and the Presidency

20

Spring

Music of the Americas: Politics, Indigeneity & Performance (Royal Holloway)

20

Spring

Violence in the American South (Royal Holloway)

20

Spring

Hollywood Genres (UCL)

20

Spring

Political Issues in Modern America

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Spring

Explaining America: Themes in the Historiography of the United States (UCL)

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Autumn/ Spring

Course credit value

Group C – Caribbean courses

Term

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

20

Autumn

Imagining the Modern Caribbean (Queen Mary)

20

Autumn

Social Anthropology of the Caribbean (Goldsmiths)

20

Autumn

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

20

Spring

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic within the field of comparative American studies.

Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

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Group B – Latin American courses

Course credit value

Term

Brazilian Government and Politics

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Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the XXIst Century

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Autumn

Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia (Goldsmiths)

20

Autumn

The International Politics of Latin America

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Autumn

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Autumn

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

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Autumn

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Text, Image and Texture: History and Archaeology in 16thCentury Mexico (UCL)

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Autumn

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 1: The Post-Colonial Nation, Slavery and the Indian (King’s) (P)

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Autumn

Development in Latin America

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Autumn

Brazil from Independence to the Present (King’s)

20

Autumn

The United States and Latin America

20

Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

20

Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

20

Spring

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I chose to study the MA

in Comparative American Studies at the Institute for the Study of the Americas because it is one of the best-regarded places to study the US, Latin America and the Caribbean in the UK, and it’s the only university that offers a Master’s combining all three. The breadth of courses available – covering history, politics, economics and culture throughout the Americas – and the access to such a wide range of resources through the University of London were very attractive.

The multidisciplinary and multiregion approach really encourages a rounded perspective. I took a variety of courses in my first year, researching topics as diverse as defence spending in California, tourism in the Caribbean and Latin American rock music, but I’ve been surprised by how interconnected these subjects can often be! With such diversity, the programme has not only given me the chance to study the issues that first motivated me to do my Master’s, but it has also introduced me to some entirely new, and equally interesting, areas.

I work full-time alongside my studies. It’s challenging, but also very rewarding. The Institute supports part-time students and the tutors are flexible and willing to help. The size of the Institute is another real advantage. Being so small, it’s easy to build relationships with fellow students and staff and to feel part of a community. ” Euan Mackay (UK) MA in Comparative American Studies

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Group B – Latin American courses (cont.)

Course credit value

Term

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

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Spring

Democratisation in Latin America

20

Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

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Spring

Music of the Americas: Politics, Indigeneity & Performance (Royal Holloway)

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Spring

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of Modernity (P) (King’s)

20

Spring

Brazilian Populism, Culture and the State (King’s)

20

Spring

Ten Themes in Modern Latin American History (King’s)

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Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

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Spring

Brazilian Popular Music Studies (King’s) (P)

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Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Cultural Studies (King’s) (P)

40

Autumn/ Spring

The Latin American Colonial Experience (King’s)

40

Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Development: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism (London School of Economics (LSE))

40

Autumn/ Spring

Nationalism and National Identity in 20th-Century Latin America (UCL)

40

Autumn/ Spring

Options that require a high level of competence in Portuguese are marked (P).

MA in Comparative American Studies Degree code: FTCAS Credit value: Structure: This programme offers courses in the disciplines of anthropology, cultural studies and literature, economics, geography and environmental issues, history, politics and international relations and sociology. Students select a total of six modules from a group of Latin American, US and Caribbean courses, with at least one module from each group.

For this MA, modules may be selected from almost the entire range available, to a total of 120 credits plus a dissertation.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students will take four term-long courses (or equivalent) in year 1, and the remaining two term-long (or equivalent) optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Fulltime Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

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MA IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES The MA in Latin American Studies is a long established multidisciplinary degree on which students from different academic backgrounds have the opportunity to study a wide range of topics in anthropology, economics, environment, history, politics, culture and literature, and sociology of Latin America.

The degree brings together the academic expertise of staff of the Institute for the Study of the Americas with that of Latin American specialists from six colleges of the University of London. The programme aims to provide a comprehensive range of specialist courses in the humanities and social sciences, attracting students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic related to at least one of their courses.

Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

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MA in Latin American Studies Degree code: FTLAS Credit value: 180 Structure: Students select six one-term courses (or equivalent). One course will be a major area of specialisation which will determine the area in which the dissertation is written. This range of options is the widest available to students wishing to study Latin America at postgraduate level in the United Kingdom.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months parttime. Part-time students will normally take the equivalent of four one-term courses in year 1.

Language competence in Spanish or Portuguese: Students must have at least a basic reading competence in Spanish or Portuguese prior to enrolment on the Master’s programme. This is a pre-requisite for registration. In order to be awarded the degree, however, students must have an acceptable level of language competence, at A-level standard or equivalent. This can be demonstrated by a test administered by the Institute, either at the commencement of the degree or at completion.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm

Courses

Course credit value

Term

Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia (Goldsmiths)

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Autumn

The International Politics of Latin America

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Autumn

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Autumn

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

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Autumn

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Imagining the Modern Caribbean (Queen Mary)

20

Autumn

Text, Image and Texture: History and Archaeology in 16thCentury Mexico (UCL)

20

Autumn

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 1: The Post-Colonial Nation, Slavery and the Indian (King’s) (P)

20

Autumn

Brazilian Government and Politics

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Autumn

Social Anthropology of the Caribbean (Goldsmiths)

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Autumn

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Courses (cont.)

Course credit value

Term

Development in Latin America

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Autumn

Brazil from Independence to the Present (King’s)

20

Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

20

Autumn

Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the XXIst Century

20

Autumn

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

20

Spring

The United States and Latin America

20

Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

20

Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

20

Spring

Democratisation in Latin America

20

Spring

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

20

Spring

Music of the Americas: Politics, Indigeneity & Performance (Royal Holloway)

20

Spring

Culture and Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of Modernity (King’s) (P)

20

Spring

Brazilian Populism, Culture and the State (King’s)

20

Spring

Ten Themes in Modern Latin American History (King’s)

20

Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

20

Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

20

Spring

Brazilian Popular Music Studies (King’s) (P)

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Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Cultural Studies (King’s) (P)

40

Autumn/ Spring

The Latin American Colonial Experience (King’s)

40

Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Development: from Liberalism to Neoliberalism (LSE)

40

Autumn/ Spring

Nationalism and National Identity in 20th-Century Latin America (UCL)

40

Autumn/ Spring

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My choice to study Latin

America at the Institute was based on it being the most internationally recognised institution in the UK specialising in my field of interest. The Institute’s multidisciplinary approach to Latin America means that students are not confined to studying the region through a single discipline. The degree programmes are wide-ranging and we are always encouraged to delve into a broad selection of literature, allowing us to engage with a number of research methodologies. One factor that convinced me that ISA would be the most stimulating environment in which to study Latin America was that while other university programmes only focus on Latin American arts and culture, at ISA there is also a strong emphasis on and concern for policy analysis, social welfare and rights.Yet what makes the Institute most different from other institutions is the closeknit community which is afforded by a small institution, and the key role it plays in promoting discussion on Latin America through its unrivalled programme of public lectures, which attracts prominent speakers and academics from across Europe and the Americas.”

Victor Sande-Aneiros (UK) MA in Latin American Studies

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MA IN UNITED STATES STUDIES The MA in United States Studies is a multi-disciplinary degree programme and the longest-established of its kind in Europe. Students choose a total of three course units from a range of specialist courses in US history, culture, politics and foreign policy and write a dissertation on a research topic of their choice linked to the subject area of one of their taught courses.

The degree brings together the academic expertise of staff of the Institute for the Study of the Americas with that of United States specialists from colleges of the University of London. The programme aims to provide a comprehensive range of specialist courses in the humanities and social sciences, attracting students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic related to one of their courses. Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

MA in United States Studies Degree code: FTUSS Credit value: 180 Structure: Students choose six one-term courses (or equivalent), one of them as their major area of specialisation which will usually determine the area in which they write their dissertation. This range of options is one of the widest available to students wishing to study the United States at postgraduate level in the United Kingdom.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students will normally take four one-term courses (or equivalent) in year 1, and the remaining two one-term courses (or equivalent) and the dissertation in year 2.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm

Courses

Course unit value

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The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

20

Autumn

American History on Film (UCL)

20

Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

20

Spring

The United States and Latin America

20

Spring

US Presidents and the Presidency

20

Spring

Music of the Americas: Politics, Indigeneity & Performance (Royal Holloway)

20

Spring

Violence in the American South (RHUL)

20

Spring

Hollywood Genres (UCL)

20

Spring

Explaining America: Themes in the Historiography of the United States (UCL)

40

Autumn/ Spring

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MSc IN GLOBALISATION AND LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT This degree examines the theoretical issues raised by globalisation and the variant ways in which different Latin American societies have reacted to it.

It also explores the degree to which contemporary indices of globalisation are continuous with earlier forms of Latin America’s global incorporation.

The degree takes as its central concern the ways in which Latin American development is bound up with global processes.

Alongside the development of techniques, skills and knowledge relevant to the interests and research needs of individual students, the programme aim to equip students for both independent research and analysis in primary and secondary material, and writing at an advanced level. It will also foster students’ intellectual development and the independent learning ability required for continuing professional and personal development.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 12,000 words on a topic related to globalisation or development in Latin America. Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development Degree code: FTGLD Credit value: 180 Structure: All students take a compulsory core course in Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the 21st Century and choose a further five one-term courses (or equivalent) from a selection in the disciplines of Anthropology, Economics, Environment, History, Politics and Sociology.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time. Part-time students will normally take the core course and the equivalent of three one-term optional courses in year 1, and the remaining two one-term (or equivalent) optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Competence in Spanish or Portuguese language: Students must have at least a basic reading competence in Spanish or Portuguese prior to enrolment on the Master’s programme. This is a pre-requisite for registration. In order to be awarded the degree, however, students must have an acceptable level of language competence, at A-level standard or equivalent. This can be demonstrated by a test administered by the Institute, either at the commencement of the degree or at completion.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,410; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,205; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm

Careers Many graduates of the Institute have gone on to earn PhDs and work in non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the charity sector (such as Amnesty International), government (including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), the media, higher education, museums and libraries, teaching and business (for example, doing country analyst work).

Alumni profiles can be found at www.americas.sas.ac.uk/ postgraduate_study/alumni-list.htm.

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MSc IN GLOBALISATION AND LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT cont.

Compulsory course Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the 21st Century

Optional courses

Course credit value 20

Course credit value

Term Autumn

Term

Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia (Goldsmiths)

20

Autumn

The International Politics of Latin America

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Autumn

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Autumn

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

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Autumn

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Development in Latin America

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Autumn

Brazilian Government and Politics

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Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

The United States and Latin America

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Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

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Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

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Spring

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

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Spring

Democratisation in Latin America

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Spring

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

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Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

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Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

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Spring

Latin American Development: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism (LSE)

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I chose the Institute for

the Study of the Americas to pursue a Master’s because of the Institute’s great reputation and its high level of expertise in the Latin American region. I first came to the Institute to attend a conference regarding the re-election of Lula in Brazil. I thought it was absolutely remarkable; this conference had a great intellectual and emotional effect on me. I found that I was surrounded by a large group of individuals who shared the same interests and passions with regards to Latin America; this provided me with a strong sense of belonging to a community. Believing that it is very important for me, as a student, to be in an environment where there is an air of real enthusiasm, my motivation to pursue my studies increased. I was delighted when I found out about the MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development; I finally felt that I had found the course for which I was searching. The events organised by the Institute enable lecturers and students to share opinions, to network or simply to socialise. I have also really enjoyed the opportunity to carry out fieldwork for my dissertation and spent five weeks in Maranhão, north-east Brazil, conducting research on biofuel and poverty. It was a fascinating and rewarding experience.”

Johanna Kolerski-Bezerra (France) MSc Globalisation and Latin American Development

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MSc IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS This degree provides students with an opportunity to develop their general and specialist knowledge of major issues in the politics of Latin America. Students engage with a range of theoretical approaches, and they can take options in the fields of comparative politics, political sociology and international politics.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic relating to Latin American politics. Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

MSc in Latin American Politics Degree code: FTLPO Credit value: 180 Structure: The MSc in Latin American Politics consists of six term-long courses (or the equivalent), one of which are compulsory courses: The International Politics of Latin America or Democratisation in Latin America.

Students then choose a further five one-term courses (or equivalent) from a selection in the disciplines of politics and sociology.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months parttime. Part-time students will normally take compulsory course and three one-term optional courses in year 1, and the remaining two one-term (or equivalent) optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Language competence in Spanish or Portuguese: Students must have at least a basic reading competence in Spanish or Portuguese prior to enrolment on the Master’s programme. This is a pre-requisite for registration. In order to be awarded the degree, however, students must have an acceptable level of language competence, at A-level standard or equivalent. This can be demonstrated by a test administered by the Institute, either at the commencement of the degree or at completion.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,100; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

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Course credit value

Compulsory course The International Politics of Latin America

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Democratisation in Latin America

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20

Autumn

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Optional courses

Term

Term

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

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Autumn

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Development in Latin America

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MSc IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS cont Course credit value

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Brazilian Government and Politics

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Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the 21st Century

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Autumn

The United States and Latin America

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Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

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Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

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Spring

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

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Spring

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

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Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

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Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

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Spring

Latin American Development: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism (LSE)

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I came to the Institute

for the Study of the Americas with an international relations background from Greece, holding a BA in International & European Economic & Political Studies and an MA in International Relations. I chose the Institute for two main reasons. The first is that ISA, in contrast to most LA degrees offered by other universities, provides in depth research and analysis in social sciences. More precisely, it was the only institution in the EU that actually offered such an extremely specialised degree as the MSc in Latin American Politics. The second is that ISA is a member institution of the University of London, one of the top universities not only in the United Kingdom, but also with a worldwide reputation. Furthermore, ISA provides the possibility to study America in total, offering degrees in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.�

Nationalism and National Identity in 20th-Century Latin America (UCL)

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Zoi Vardarnika (Greece) MSc in Latin American Politics

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MSc IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (DEVELOPMENT) This new MSc allows students to specialise in development issues.

The core course – Development in Latin America – provides a historical review of Latin American development and introduces students to the theories and concepts that inform contemporary debates and development policy. In addition, students choose specialist courses from a selection of the economics, human rights, politics and sociology options.

of the principal theories that seek to explain those patterns.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic relating to Latin American development.

Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

The programme aims to develop an understanding of the history, theory and evolution of economic development and social change in Latin America in the 20th century, founded on a multidisciplinary approach and from a comparative perspective. By the end of the programme students should be able to demonstrate a broad empirical knowledge of Latin American development from the perspective of at least two disciplines. They should also possess an awareness of the general patterns of difference and similarity across the region as well as MSc in Latin American Studies (Development) Degree code: FTLAD Credit value: Structure: Students take the compulsory core course Development in Latin America and choose five one-term specialist courses (or equivalent) from a selection of the Economics, Human Rights, Politics and Sociology options.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months parttime. Part-time students will normally take the core course and three optional courses in year 1, and the remaining two optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,410; Part-time Home and EU Master’s students: £2,205; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,440.

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MSc IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (DEVELOPMENT) cont Compulsory course Development in Latin America

Optional courses

Credit value 20

Credit value

Term Autumn

Term

Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia (Goldsmiths)

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Autumn

The International Politics of Latin America

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Autumn

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Autumn

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice

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Autumn

The Caribbean from the Haitian Revolution to the Cuban Revolution

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Autumn

Brazilian Government and Politics

20

Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

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Autumn

Globalisation and Latin American Development: Latin America in the 21st Century

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Autumn

The United States and Latin America

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Spring

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

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Spring

Economic Policy and Social Development in Contemporary Latin America

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Spring

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Economics

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Spring

Democratisation in Latin America

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Spring

Society and Development in Latin America

20

Spring

The Politics of Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges of Democratisation

20

Spring

Politics, Society and Development in the Modern Caribbean

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Spring

The Latin American Colonial Experience (King’s)

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Autumn/ Spring

Latin American Development: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism (LSE)

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MSc IN UNITED STATES STUDIES: HISTORY AND POLITICS This new degree offers students the opportunity to specialise in the study of the US presidency, the subject of two core courses and one tied to the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) research specialism as the focus of the United States Presidency Centre (the UK’s only specialist research centre on the presidency). Students also take a core course that focuses on contemporary issues in US politics and government. The option courses (student choose the equivalent of three one-term courses) provide the opportunity to study the US from the perspective of history (19th and 20th centuries), culture (film studies), and comparative studies (placing the US within the context of the Americas as a whole). Most courses run for one term and are assessed by coursework only. In addition to the ISA’s own provision on the presidency, the programme enables you to study courses offered by staff from other University of London colleges (University College, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway). The final element of the programme is the research dissertation.

Dissertation Students write a dissertation of 15,000 words on any subject relating to U.S. history and/or politics..

Group dissertation planning sessions are held during the academic year, followed by individual tutorials with dissertation supervisors. A number of grants are offered to enable students to carry out fieldwork for the dissertation.

MSc in United States: History and Politics Degree code: Please check the website Credit value: Structure: Students choose six one-term courses, three of which are compulsory. They are required to take the following required core courses: US Presidents: From FDR to Obama, US Presidents and the Presidency and Political Issues in Modern America. In addition, students take the equivalent of three one-term courses that allow them to further their knowledge in selected areas of US history and politics.

Duration and mode of study: 12 months full-time or 24 months parttime. Part-time students will normally take the core courses in year 1, and the two one-term optional courses and the dissertation in year 2.

Fees (2011–12): Please check the website Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm

Course credit value

Compulsory courses

Term

US Presidents: From FDR to Obama

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Autumn

US Presidents and the Presidency

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Spring

Political Issues in Modern America

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Spring

Optional courses

Course credit value

Term

US History on Film

20

Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective I: Historical Roots

20

Autumn

The Americas in Comparative Perspective II: Modern Politics and Society

20

Spring

Hollywood Genres (UCL)

20

Spring

Violence in the American South (RHUL)

20

Spring

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

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Warburg Institute

MA IN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 1300–1650 This 12-month, full-time degree is intended as an introduction to the principal elements of the classical tradition and to interdisciplinary research in cultural and intellectual history from the late middle ages to the early modern period. Although it is a qualification in its own right, the MA is also designed to provide training for further research at doctoral level.

All students take four core courses and two options and write a dissertation as well as two essays. In addition, there is a regular series of classes throughout the three terms on Techniques of Scholarship. Subjects dealt with include: description of manuscripts; palaeography; printing in the 15th and 16th centuries; editing a text; preparation of dissertations and photographic images. Some of these classes are held outside the Institute in locations such as the British Library or the Wellcome Library. Students are given the opportunity to examine early printed books and manuscripts. Reading classes in Latin, Italian and French are provided and are intended to help acquire the necessary familiarity with those languages as written in the late middle ages and the Renaissance.

Students are also encouraged to attend the Director’s weekly seminar on Work in Progress and any of the other regular seminars held in the Institute that may be of interest to them. These at present include History of Art, Maps and Society and the History of Scholarship from the Renaissance Onwards.

MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 Degree code: WTWCI Credit value: 180 Structure: Six one-term taught courses (four core courses and two from among the optional choices) plus a dissertation of 20,000-25,000 words and two essays of 5,000–6,000 words.

Mode of study: 12 months full-time.

Other language requirements: A reading knowledge of Latin and of one European modern language other than English is required. An understanding of Italian is particularly useful.

Fees (2010–11, subject to uplift in 2011–12): Full-time Home and EU Master’s students: £4,200; Full-time Overseas Master’s students: £11,257.

Website: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/graduate_studies/grad.htm

Courses The core courses are spread over two terms and deal with: Humanism

Neo-Latin literature, letters, antiquarianism, rhetoric and various aspects of classical scholarship

Italian History

Aspects of late medieval and/or Renaissance social and political history

Iconology

Mythological painting, allegorical figures, historical subjects, altarpieces

Philosophy

The influence of classical philosophy in the Renaissance, studied through commentaries, dialogues and letters, as well as popular works

The optional courses may vary from year to year. Recently offered topics include: Sin and Sanctity in the Reformation Art and Devotion in the Renaissance Renaissance Material Culture Islamic Authorities and Arabic Elements in the Renaissance Knowledge through Emblems: Reading Francis Bacon’s Sapientia veterum (1609) Music and the Arts and Sciences in the Renaissance

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RESEARCH DEGREES MPhil/PhD AREAS OF RESEARCH The broad areas of doctoral research that are available to students are listed below.

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES Access to justice

International economic law (IMF and WTO)

Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution

Law and EU reform

Banking and financial law and regulation

Law enforcement

Company and commercial law

Legal education

Comparative law

Legal practice

Discrimination

Legal profession

Economic crime

Legal services

EU criminal law

Legal skills

European integration

The legislative environment

European law

Legislative studies and legislative drafting

Human rights

Taxation

Legal ethics

Legal process

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES Human rights

Globalisation, security and conflict

The foreign and defence policies of Commonwealth countries

The Commonwealth as an international organisation

African politics, governance and development

British imperial history, including decolonisation

Protection of refugees

European colonialism in comparative perspective

The politics, governance and development of South Asia

Postcolonial legacies in the Commonwealth and beyond

Ethnicity: conflict and accommodation in plural societies

Non-governmental public actors, civil society and development

The Mediterranean and the colonial powers

Local government and decentralisation

Twentieth-century British and Commonwealth history

British and Commonwealth intelligence communities

Minority rights protection

Dynamics of armed conflict and forced displacement

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RESEARCH DEGREES MPhil/PhD AREAS OF RESEARCH cont.

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES Anglo-American Modernism

Medieval literacy

Anglo-Irish literature

Medieval manuscript studies and palaeography

History of authorship

Modern literary manuscripts and genetic criticism

History of the book

Publishing history

History of communication

Reception history

History of readers and reading

The Industrial Revolution and literature

Major authors (e.g., T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Shakespeare, A.G. Swinburne, W.B.Yeats)

Textual scholarship, scholarly editing and historical Bibliography

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES French, German, Italian, Hispanic and Portuguese studies Literature Cultural studies Comparative and interdisciplinary studies The city (especially Berlin and Trieste)

Women’s writing

Borders

Jewish writing

The body

Exile writing

Psychoanalysis

Children’s literature

German philosophy and history of ideas

Feminism

The Futurist avant-garde

Trauma studies

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RESEARCH DEGREES MPhil/PhD AREAS OF RESEARCH cont.

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Urban and metropolitan (especially London) history, including comparative approaches across Europe and elsewhere Local and regional history, primarily concerning England and including the impact of towns Social, economic and political history of Britain, 1300–1500 The history of architecture and the built environment in Britain from 1550 onwards.

The experience and impact of empire The history of parliamentary representation in the UK History of British politics, political parties, radical politics and trade unionism since 1867 Film, media and popular culture Towns in the earlier middle ages Aspects of the social and economic history of Britain since the late 19th century Royal and Diplomatic history since 1900

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The decision to come

to the UK was relatively straightforward. I applied for a research studentship at the Institute of Historical Research. When I found out that I was successful, I decided that the combination of studying in the UK, a PhD in history, and living in a city like London would be a great complement to my studies and prospective career plans. Life as a PhD student has been highly enjoyable. London is a great city to live in. It is demanding, but ultimately rewarding: the vast number of events within and outside the University happening all the time and all the year round, and the enormous range of resources I have access to as a student of the University of London.”

Carlos López Galviz (Colombia) PhD topic: Comparative metropolitan history

Victorian culture

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS History, politics, foreign policy or sociology of the United States Cultural history of the Caribbean Human rights in Latin America History, politics, economics or sociology of Latin America Comparative Americas in history, politics, economics or sociology

WARBURG INSTITUTE Medieval to early modern art, history, philosophy and science Humanism and history of scholarship Arabic and Islamic influences in Europe

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RESEARCH PROJECTS Institutes of the School host a number of significant research projects. Recent projects include: INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES Databases and their role in the prevention of transnational crime Concepts of professional competence

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES South-North non-governmental networks, policy, processes and policy outcomes Marine fisheries management and coastal zone communities in the Commonwealth

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES CELM: The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700 The T.S. Eliot Editorial Project The history of Oxford University Press From clay tablets to ball points: creating the Virtual Museum of Writing Redefining the canon of Elizabethan drama

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES Psychoanalysis and the arts and humanities: a multilingual perspective

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Early English laws History in education

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH Francophone music criticism, 1789–1914 PRIMO: Practice-as-Research in Music Online

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS The historical roots of social exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean Days of Infamy: how the United States responds to attack, from the Maine to the Twin Towers

WARBURG INSTITUTE Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy The correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609) Medicine of the mind and natural philosophy in Early Modern England: a new way of interpreting Francis Bacon The production and reading of polyphonic music sources, 1480-1530

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A SELECTION OF CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENT TOPICS The role of democracy assistance in US foreign policy Migration and identity constructions in an imperial metropolis: the representation of Jewish heritage in London between 1887 and 1956 Money laundering within the framework of the modern globalisation of financial institutions Sixteenth-century Hebrew typography: the Le Bé type specimens in the Bibliothèque Nationale Re-thinking non-judicial human rights protection: the example of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways: a cultural analysis of the modernization process in a peripheral metropolis (1890–1950) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and American foreign policy towards Iraq, 2000-the present The ‘taming’ of the Mexican left during the Aleman administration (1946-52) Information technology in India’s policy making Food sovereignty or agricultural liberalisation? Globalisation and agriculture in Cuba and Costa Rica The inter-relationship between British and Austrian youth culture, 1960–1990 Impact of Islamic law on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: the plight of sexually abused children Tastes and attitudes to the art of the past in Italy, 1550-1800 Repurchase of own shares by a company: are the creditors and the minority shareholders adequately protected Diasporic Argentine and Chilean identities in Britain: the traces of dictatorship in second-generation ‘postmemory’ The role of the company promoter in the London capital market, 1877–1914 The notion of imagination in Ficino’s commentary on Plotinus Playing the subjective: applying form theatre to post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda The Latin reception of Arabic astronomy and cosmology in mid-twelfth-century Antioch The dynamics of forced female migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1938–50 Rights-based approach to health systems: an examination of national antiretroviral delivery in South Africa and India The Ullstein paper Tempo and the generational discourse of the Weimar Republic Space, memory and the engagement of everyday practices in Paris: a study of Walter Benjamin’s Passagen-werk The framework of new governance: legal aspects of banking supervision in China during an era of change From Victorian values to modern celebrity: the National Portrait Gallery, 1947–1988 Understanding Cuban economic policy and performance since 1990: a contribution to the theory of economic ‘transition’ Development without borders: engaging faith-based organisations for social development

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RESEARCH TRAINING The School has a varied and challenging research training programme offered centrally through the School and individually through its institutes.

School programmes The year starts with an intensive induction programme for all new research students. This is followed by a full School programme of generic skills workshops, offering training in such areas as: • Project organisation and management • Applying for research funding • Working in archives • Ethics in research • Surveys and questionnaires • Conducting interviews • Getting research published • Giving a seminar or conference paper • Organising a conference • The PhD viva • Teaching skills for the PhD student • Career development Generic skills training is also available via the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network, making it easier for our students and those of other Bloomsbury institutions to schedule training at a time convenient for them.

Specifically for our social science postgraduates, the School’s Research Methodologies programme provides an introduction to various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. By the end of the programme, students will have an understanding of different theoretical approaches and of the principles and practice of research design; be aware of multidisciplinary perspectives; be able to interpret and evaluate qualitative and quantitative research,

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and understand the philosophical and ethical issues involved in conducting and interpreting research. This firm grounding in social science research principles is then completed by institute subject-specific methodologies training.

Online research training The School also offers online research training: Library Research Skills Tutorial www.ull.ac.uk/news/lrst.shtml This is the University of London Research Library Services’ online tutorial in the skills needed to conduct postgraduate library-based research in the humanities and social sciences. It includes four modules: Planning Library Research, Using Libraries, Using Resources, and Referencing and Bibliography.

PORT – Postgraduate Online Research Training http://port.igrs.sas.ac.uk This website, run by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, provides a useful training reference point for all postgraduates, especially those in modern languages, offering as it does extensive research skills tutorials (ranging from topics such as note-taking, to the PhD viva, to applying for jobs in the USA), supplemented by video clips. It also offers a portal to resources in Czech, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Institute research training Several institutes run subject-specific research training programmes designed especially for the students in their disciplines. In the fertile interdisciplinary environment of the School, the topics and the approach may also be appropriate for students in other disciplines, and institutes are

usually happy to welcome any student in the School.

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies runs courses open to all law postgraduates on legal research skills and methods (theories of research, reviewing the literature, defining the question, research design, project management); electronic legal research; socio-legal and nonlegal empirical research methods (interviewing, third-party observation, focus groups, grounded theory, policy analysis, survey research, quantitative and qualitative data analysis); legal doctrinal research; and bibliographical and resource skills.

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies runs a spring term social research methods training module - Researching Human Rights: Social Research Methods.

The module provides students with a practical introduction to the theory and methods of qualitative and quantitative social research and how they can be applied to the study of human rights. The module helps students develop skills in the critical evaluation of social research and enables them to understand the principles of investigation and inference necessary for carrying out original research in the field of human rights.

The Institute of English Studies’ Methods and Resources course comprises two Saturday study days, covering such basics as an introduction to bibliographical resources and databases for literary research, the use of style sheets, how to compile a bibliography, the basics of research writing, and managing the dissertation. In addition, a sixday course, Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, run jointly

with the Warburg Institute, King’s College London and the University of Cambridge, offers an intensive training in the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts.

The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies has a wellestablished and extensive programme of Saturday workshops which run throughout the year. These are aimed primarily at modern language postgraduates, but students in other disciplines will find specific elements very useful. The varied programme comprises sessions on writing and revising your drafts; choosing, defining and structuring a research project; using specialist libraries and archives (including film); EndNote, Zotero, RSS feeds; database and bibliography building for beginners; theoretical applications; visual culture; working on painting, photography and exhibitions; working across disciplines; organising a conference; writing and submitting a journal article; giving a conference paper; the PhD viva; applying for an academic job; writing a CV; job interviews, and time and stress management.

The Institute of Historical Research offers a comprehensive programme of short training courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of both the unparalleled concentration of historical expertise available in the University of London, and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and

writers of all sorts. Course fees have been set at a level to render the programme affordable to all students.

Courses include: • Historical archives • Information technology • Languages • Historical skills The Institute of Musical Research coordinates training on behalf of the music research community, taking some of the following sessions out to the regions. Its programme, like all the institutes’, is responsive to the needs of students, and covers a diverse field effectively. Sessions include: the practicalities of PhD study (ethics, planning, funding, viva to publication); music as social phenomenon (social history, social psychology, ethnography); scores (analysis in context and practice, digital and non-digital editing, palaeography); music; narrative; image (film semiotics, intertextuality, readings of images and literature); composers and performers (practice as research, collaborative research, new notations); witnesses (oral history, data through discussion, reception history); sounds (performance studies, analysis of recordings, popular music in performance). The Institute also runs two six-day courses on German reading for musicologists.

The Warburg Institute’s courses offer specialist training for historians of cultural and intellectual history: • Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern culture • Techniques of scholarship • Languages (Latin, Renaissance French and Renaissance Italian reading courses) • Palaeography (specifically Latin palaeography)

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I chose to enrol on a

PhD at the Institute for the Study of the Americas after completing my MA at the Institute.

My decision to further my studies was due to both my interest in the field of 19th-century American history and my experiences during my Master’s. The Institute has allowed me to further my interest in the career of President Ulysses S. Grant and the support and direction of the teaching faculty and my supervisor has been invaluable. The Institute provides a wealth of study skill sessions and the support you receive from your supervisor is excellent. I feel that the Institute for the Study of the Americas is an ideal place for research students as the expertise and quality practices that they employ fosters a high standard of study and creates an environment of academic excellence.”

Richard Dotor (UK) PhD topic:The southern policy of Ulysses S. Grant 1865–77

Further details on research training are available at www.sas.ac.uk/ researchtraining.html, or contact Rosemary Lambeth (rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk) for more information.

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LIBRARY COLLECTIONS The libraries and collections of the Institutes of the School of Advanced Study provide a range of material unmatched anywhere in the world in relation to their specialist subject areas. These resources are further supported by the collections of the Senate House Library, one of the largest humanities and social sciences libraries in the UK. Together, these library collections confirm the School’s invaluable role in supporting the nation’s research and advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. School collections and the Senate House Library together form the University of London Research Library Services: www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library has rich collections of legal research materials from all jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, the European Union and countries of Europe, the USA, the countries of the Commonwealth and South America, and of public and private international law, comparative law and jurisprudence. It includes material in western European languages from jurisdictions throughout the world.

Institute of Classical Studies Library, including the Joint Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies.

Classics collection, Senate House Library, with materials on classical philology, Greek language and literature, history of Greek literature by period, Latin language and literature, and the history of Latin literature. There are also related collections on classical art, architecture and sculpture, ancient history and archaeology, catalogues of Greek and Latin manuscripts and facsimiles of some manuscripts, and classical philosophy.

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, which covers the fields of history, politics, human rights and international relations, as well as agriculture, the environment and social questions.

English collection, Senate House Library, covering the medieval period (c.450– 1500), the early modern period (c.1500–1700), the 19th to mid 20th century, postcolonial literatures in English, critical theory and comparative literature.

The Palaeography and Manuscript collection, Senate House Library, includes original manuscript and archival materials as well as an extensive collection of titles on palaeography, manuscripts, historical bibliography and book history.

The Germanic Studies collection, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, covers German, Austrian and Swiss-German language and literature from their respective beginnings to the present day, with particular emphasis on primary texts, journals and reference works. There are significant holdings on 18th-century drama, exile, Expressionism, the George-Kreis, Swiss and East German literature, and substantial manuscript and archive collections.

The Romance collection, Senate House Library, also has separate locations for French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish holdings.

Institute of Historical Research Library, a comprehensive open access collection of the chief printed primary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles and western Europe, their colonial expansion, the subsequent history of North and South America, and international relations and war.

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and Intellectual History 1300-1650 at the Warburg Institute and found the Institute a wonderful place to study and decided that it would be the best place to continue my research for a PhD. In the field of Renaissance studies the Warburg Institute is considered one of the world’s leading institutions.

I was attracted by its unique multidisciplinary approach and by its focus on the study of primary sources and languages, and also by its incredibly rich library.

It is also a very small place; in many respects it is almost a community where everybody is willing to discuss their research with anybody else in a very friendly but not condescending way. We meet regularly with our supervisors to discuss what we have done, and we are also encouraged to knock at the door of any member of staff whenever we have a problem, or a doubt. I have never heard anybody say they were too busy to listen! We do not have compulsory lectures or classes but every PhD student discusses instead with his supervisor the kind of training and skills that they need to improve and they are then encouraged to look for it, inside or outside the Institute, which offers a very rich selection of courses and training, from vernacular paleographies to seminars in history of scholarship.”

Federico Zuliani (Italy) PhD topic:The Persistence of Catholicism in Denmark after the Protestant Reformation, 1536-1629

History collection, Senate House Library, with a focus on British and European history, early modern studies,Victorian studies, 18th-century studies and contemporary British history.

Music collection, Senate House Library, primarily covering the music of Europe and the Americas (North and South) from earliest times to the present, with smaller sections on the music of Africa and Asia, ethnomusicology, popular music and various forms of dance. The scores collection is especially strong in collected editions and historical sets in addition to the substantial holdings of individual loanable works. The collection as a whole is also noted for its strong foreign language component, particularly French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Philosophy collection, Senate House Library, covering ancient philosophy to the 21st century, works of philosophers in English and European languages, critical texts, and works on themes such as metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, ethics and logic. The collection is especially strong in modern western philosophy, particularly works by and about individual philosophers – British, American and Continental.

Latin American/Caribbean Studies collection, Senate House Library/ Institute for the Study of the Americas, has strengths in anthropology, economics, history, literature, politics and sociology. The geographical area covered includes all the countries and territories of Central and South America as well as the islands of the Caribbean (including the English-, Dutch- and French-speaking communities), the islands of the South Atlantic (the Falklands/Malvinas and South Georgia), the Galapagos Islands and the Antarctic territories administered by Chile and Argentina.

The United States collection, Senate House Library, is one of the largest general collections on the United States in the country and is unique in keeping holdings in most subjects together, offering interdisciplinary coverage of the history, past and present institutions, and culture of the United States. The collection’s main strengths lie in history and literature, but it also offers good coverage of fine art, architecture, economics, film, politics, religion, Native American and African American studies, and small sections on the history of science, technology, medicine, law and education.

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Historical Research a perfect place to study. It has a centre devoted to the history of the metropolis and it is very well networked with archives, libraries, and museums which are useful for my research. The courses on offer aim at developing research skills such as methods and theories, the use of software and databases, and they are crucially oriented at linking the students with the archives. The work that I have been able to carry out in libraries and archives is one of the most fascinating experiences that I have had in the UK. The excellent sources and resources managed by them, the practical organisation of their collections, and the comfort for working they offer, have been crucial in the development of my studies.”

Dhan Zunino Singh (Argentina) PhD topic:The history of the Buenos Aires underground railways (c.1880–1940)

The Canadian and Caribbean Studies collections, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, hold material relating to history and the broader social sciences, including constitutional, political, demographic, social and economic development.

The Warburg Institute Library focuses on social and political history, religion, the history of science and philosophy, literature, books, libraries, education, the history of art, classical art and archaeology.

Senate House Library also has general collections on economics, politics, anthropology, film, gender, geography and the environment, comparative literature, religious studies, maps, psychology and theatre studies, amongst other topics.

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INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS Entry requirements The normal minimum entrance requirement for all degrees is a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree from a university in the United Kingdom, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard (for example a Grade Point Average [GPA] of 3.0 or higher).

Some degrees may require competence in a specific language other than English.

Applications may also be considered from candidates who do not meet the formal academic requirements, but who offer alternative qualifications and/or relevant experience.

English language competency All students whose first language is not English must be able to provide recent evidence (gained in the last two years) that their written and spoken English language is adequate for postgraduate study. This requirement is specified in order to ensure that the academic progress of students is not hindered by language difficulties and that students are able to integrate socially whilst studying and living in the UK. The School regards the following English language test scores or a degree taken in English as the minimum standards for entry to programmes of institutes of the School: • Common European Framework (CEF)

- Master’s applicants – level B2

- research applicants (MPhil/PhD) – level C1, or • a minimum overall score of 7.0, and no less than 6.0 in each category (academic reading, academic writing, listening and speaking), in the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) test administered by the British Council; or • a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of at least 610 in the paper-based test plus 5 in the test of written English, or Internet based TOEFL with a score of 102; or • a Grade C or above in the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English; or • a Grade A in the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English; or • University of Reading TEEP test of proficiency for academic purposes at level 7.5 and above; or • Trinity College English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at level ISE Level III; or • Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): minimum PTE Academic score of 76; or

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a first degree or MA in a relevant subject from an Anglophone country (i.e. where the majority of the inhabitants of that country or region speak English) or from a university in a nonAnglophone country where teaching, written work and examination were mainly in English, completed within the last two years.

The School reserves the right to require, from any applicant, additional evidence of language competence such as a piece of written work and/or an interview. Evidence of an applicant’s English competence should, if possible, be included with the application.

For entry to research degrees, it may be acceptable in some circumstances i.e. where the qualifications achieved fall slightly short of the threshold standards, to allow a student to register, conditional upon him or her pursuing an appropriate course to raise competence to the required level. This decision will be made by the admitting institute.

Funding The School has been awarded a number of Block Grant awards from the AHRC and for 2011 has three History awards (one Master’s and two doctoral), one Cultural Studies (Master’s) and one History of Art (doctoral)*.

The School of Advanced Study offers up to two bursaries for doctoral study which covers tuition fees and a maintenance grant, awarded on a competitive basis to students registered at one of the institutes. Only those students about to start their first year of study are eligible.

Some of the institutes also have their own bursaries – see the relevant website for further details. External funding may also be available in certain subject areas and/or for certain categories of student. For example, a number of our students obtain funding from the British Council or the Commonwealth Commission.

UK-resident students are eligible to apply for Professional and Career Development Loans.

For further information see www.sas.ac.uk/funding.html *Please note that this assumes that the AHRC is able to meet its BGP spending commitment, and we are awaiting confirmation that this is the case. Please check before making any applications you may make for a studentship under any university’s AHRC BGP scheme.

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Student fees The fees for 2011–12 have yet to be set. The Prospectus details the course fees payable in 2010–11.

The fees for PhD students (at 2010–11 rates) are as follows:

Student category

Fee

Full-time Home and EU

£4,110*

Part-time Home and EU

£2,055

Full-time Overseas

Vary between institutes

* There are some exceptions. Please check with individual institutes.

Students should ensure that they have the funds available to pay their fees before they embark on the programme.

Payment can be made in full or by four instalments. The first instalment is due at or before registration, with the remaining three instalments to be paid by direct debit.

Students can pay their full fee by cheque, bank transfer or credit/debit card. Students are liable for the full year’s fees. See the School’s tuition fee policy at www.sas.ac.uk/ postgraduate.html Some institutes will charge a deposit fee to secure your place. This is usually non-refundable.

International students The School welcomes applications from international students. Potential applicants should be aware of the impact of the Government’s new Points Based system on their application. The University of London has been licensed to offer certificates to potential students but this does not provide any guarantee of gaining entry clearance.

Students should also note that they will be required to provide evidence of their ability to pay their fee and maintain themselves whilst in the UK. The classification of a student as ‘Home’ or ‘Overseas’ for fees purposes is based on government legislation and is determined by residence in the UK or, for EU nationals, in a member state of the European Economic Area (EEA).

Generally any student who has not been ordinarily resident in the UK or, in the case of EU nationals, in an EEA country for at least three years immediately preceding 1 September of the year they intend to begin their course or who has been resident primarily for full-time education, will be classified as ‘Overseas’ for fees purposes. Where

three-year residence is a requirement, the applicant must normally also have ‘settled status’ i.e. the right of abode in the UK with no restrictions. If you are in doubt, please discuss this with the Registry.

Students can check their status with UKCISA at www.ukcisa.org.uk.

Please note that it will be unlikely that nationals requiring a visa will be able to obtain a visa for part-time Master’s degrees as they do not comply with the Immigration Department regulations. For further information see www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/studyingintheuk/.

Disability The School of Advanced Study aims to provide an environment where everyone can access its programmes and activities – conferences, workshops and seminars, library provision (through the University of London Research Library Services), and teaching programmes.

The School welcomes all students who are academically qualified and motivated to benefit from the programmes we offer through the member institutes.

Disabilities can include but are not limited to mobility or dexterity difficulties, long-term medical conditions, sensory impairments, mental health problems and specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia).

Applications All applications to the School are considered on their academic merit.

If you are considering an application to the School you may find it helpful to discuss access confidentially with the student administrator in the relevant institute before applying.

Application forms and application information can be supplied in alternative formats.

When an application form is received, the standard entry requirement assessment is undertaken. So, an initial assessment is made as to whether you satisfy the entry requirements for the programme in which you are interested. With the application form you will receive a monitoring form which invites you to say whether you have special access or support needs and asks that you provide the information on a separate sheet. This

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INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS cont. information is treated as confidential and is retained by the student administrator in Registry. Disability is not a factor in making the judgement about whether you should be offered a place. This Disability Statement, which is also on our website, is sent to any applicant who indicates that he or she has a disability.

If you have indicated that you have a disability which may affect your study, we may ask you to complete a Pre-Entry Support form, which will help us to ensure that support can be implemented in a timely fashion. If you already have an assessment of your needs for the purpose of the Disabled Students Allowance, it is useful to send the relevant papers.

The institutes do not always interview applicants before offering a place so you may find it helpful to visit the institute to discuss your needs and to help you decide for yourself whether the physical and learning environment is right for you. If you visit, you will have the opportunity to meet the academic coordinator for the relevant programme, the student administrator and the disability advisor.

Support whilst on course The School of Advanced Study aims to provide support for students with disabilities while on the course. Students with disabilities are encouraged to have their needs clearly stated in a support agreement that is developed by the disability advisor and the student. This ensures that students do not need to rearticulate their needs to different members of staff and maintains an equitable level of support across the School of Advanced Study.

Students do not need to be ‘registered disabled’ to draw on our services though, in order to provide services in the long term, we will need to ask for medical or other evidence as appropriate. We aim to treat every person as an individual, with needs that may differ from those of other people with a superficially similar disability. We do not, therefore, have standard procedures for students with dyslexia or for visually impaired students, for example: each person’s needs are considered individually.

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The School of Advanced Study has an external disability advisor who can provide advice on course-related study needs; arrange support such as note-takers, BSL interpreters and personal assistants; liaise with tutors and funding authorities; arrange special provision for examinations; and undertake needs assessments for students applying for support through the national Disabled Students Allowances scheme.

Accommodation University of London Halls of Residence The School’s students can apply for quota places in the University of London Intercollegiate Halls of Residence.

Students must have been accepted to study on a degree programme within the School to be eligible. Applications must be made through the Registry and early application is advised as places are extremely limited. Application forms are available through the Registry or can be downloaded from the University of London website at www.london. ac.uk/accom. Information on the application process is sent to eligible students during the spring term and made available at www.sas.ac.uk/facstud.html#c706. Further information on halls of residence is available at www.halls.london.ac.uk Late summer places: from mid September each academic year, students may apply directly to the Residences for unallocated places. Advice and information will be available from the Registry on +44(0)20 7862 8661/8662/8663.

University of London Housing Services The ULHS provides support and useful advice to students seeking private or temporary accommodation. Applicants with an offer from the School can register to use the online accommodation database at www.lon.ac.uk/accom Property Management Unit The University of London Property Management Unit manages some accommodation for full-time University of London students. There are no waiting lists for these rooms: www.housing.london.ac.uk/cms

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How to make an application Applications must be made using the School application form.

This is available from the School Registry at SAS.Registry@sas.ac.uk, or by downloading from the School website at www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduatestudy.html Completed application forms should be sent to: School of Advanced Study Registry University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Entry requirements for Master’s degrees are described on page 44.

It is expected that applicants for research degrees will have discussed their topic of research with a supervisor prior to making a formal application. Details of supervisors and their areas of expertise are available from institute webpages.

Visiting the School Each year the School and its institutes hold a number of open days. Please contact sasopenday@sas.ac.uk to register your interest and to find out more about our open days or to arrange a visit to the School and any of its institutes.

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