Masters Degree

Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in the Study of Imagination

History of images – History of Ideas

2009 – 2011

The ”History of images – History of ideas” Master’s Degree Course is an interdisciplinary programme that offers insight into the morphology and syntax of cultural images, and focuses on fields such as comparative literature, philosophy, history of religions, social and political sciences, music, fine arts and film. It covers the following core disciplines:

Symbolic Histories and Symbolic Universes
History and Imagination
Literature and the Fine Arts
The Imaginary of Femininity
Icons and Reality: Religious Structures of Imagination
Comparative Architecture
Methods in the Study of Imagination
Image Hermeneutics
Western Counterculture Literature of the 1960’s: Modernism and Postmodernism
Creative Writing and Logical Games: Critifiction
Inter-art Dialogues: Literature and Music
Image and Imagination in Auteur Movies

The entry requirements consist of a combination of interview and presentation. As part of the interview, candidates will deliver:

– A research project outline (preferably but not compulsorily related to the proposed Master’s dissertation) on a theme relating to image and imagination, three printed copies of which shall be handed upon submitting the application. The project is to include an Argument motivating the choice of the theme, a brief summary and a bibliography (3-4 pages in all). The proposed MA project will not reiterate the theme or content of the candidate’s BA thesis.

– A Curriculum Vitae that may but need not include a publication list. Candidates who have published articles in academic journals will attach copies of the articles to their CV.

The Master’s Degree course provides 12 subsidised openings and 15 non-subsidised openings

The process of submission of applications and the interviewing of the candidates take place annually, between 1-15 September.