Introduction to the New Humanities
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 1 (1 on-campus study day and 11 weeks online learning, 2 hours per module, per week): This taught module introduces students to advanced aspects of the interdisciplinary Humanities that they may not have encountered at the undergraduate level or on subject-specific courses, such as new materialist, post-critical, and posthumanist approaches as well as intersections with environmental, medical and digital spaces.
Humanities at Work
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 1 (1 on-campus study day and 11 weeks online learning, 2 hours per module, per week): This taught module focuses on the further development of students’ transferable skills and the place of Humanities Masters level graduates in various sectors and industries. The module begins with identifying individual student aspirations and needs in terms of graduate employability, professional qualifications, or further study in HE. The module also explores the ways in which Humanities graduates offer alternative ways of thinking about and responding to rapidly changing technological and social contexts.
Researching the New Humanities
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 2: (1 on-campus study day and 11 weeks online learning, 2 hours per module, per week) This taught module will provide students with a range of tools and techniques for Masters’ level research in the Humanities. Students will look to examples of exemplary and creative research methods and implement these techniques in their own idea for a mini-research project.
Applied Humanities – Project I
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 2: (1 on-campus study day and 11 weeks online learning, 2 hours per module, per week): This taught module can be approached as a stand-alone module or as the first part of a larger capstone project leading into AHU705: Applied Humanities – Project II. In this module, students will pursue either a research or a work-based learning project. In both cases, students will be required to consider the parameters of the project; ethics; audience, stakeholders and/or partners; communication and delivery; outcomes, and impact.
The New Humanities in Action
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 3: (1 on-campus study day, 5 weeks online learning, 6 weeks self-directed, 2 hours per module, per week) This project module is tailored to suit students’ own areas of interest, in collaboration with one another or an external partner. The taught half of the module will explore the ways Humanities research engages with social, political, and environmental issues in the public sphere and how such research can affect policy, industry, and culture in creative and innovative ways. In the self-directed section of the module, students will be asked to use their critical thinking skills to explore transformative solutions to industry and/or social issues at both a local and global level.
Applied Humanities – Project II
30 Credits
(Compulsory)
Semester 3: (1 on-campus study day, 5 weeks online learning, 6 weeks self-directed, 2 hours per module, per week) This project module can be approached as a stand-alone module or as the second part of a larger capstone project leading on from AHU704: Applied Humanities – Project I. Students can decide on their approach as they progress through AHU704. This module is student-led. Students will have articulated in their AHU704 proposals their plans for AHU705 and how it builds on the work and skills already developed in AHU704.