You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August. HTML The final element of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation (60 credits), which students complete during the summer months. This is an independent, primary source-based research project supervised by one or more members of academic staff. Students have considerable freedom to define their own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise. Example dissertation topics Past dissertation topics have included: "Erinnerungsstreit?" The perception of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory after the death of the eyewitness Italian Influences on the study and teaching of history and the development of polite education in Edinburgh, 1708 - 1750 Spinoza, Schlegel, and Novelis: The Spinozism of the German Romantic Novel A Tale of Two Pneumatologists: Jean Fernel and William Harvey on the Concept of the Soul and Theories of Generation The Concept of Divine Providence in the Boyle Lectures (1692-1725) Thomas Carlyle's Philosophy of History as Meaning: The Case of 'Sir Walter Scott' How significant were the influencies of Eastern mysticism and German philosophy in Edward Carpenter's critique of modern civilisation? Sources of the Superfluous: Concepts and Experiences of the Redundant in [Hannah Arendt’s] Elemente und Ursprunge totaler Herrschaft This article was published on 2024-06-19
HTML The final element of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation (60 credits), which students complete during the summer months. This is an independent, primary source-based research project supervised by one or more members of academic staff. Students have considerable freedom to define their own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise.
