Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Postgraduate Diploma in Renaissance Studies*

Course code: 3791 + Mid-year entry available + 1 full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Course coordinator: Carolyn James

* Subject to final approval.

Course description

Students will consider what the Renaissance was and examine its different aspects, with an emphasis on Italy but with attention to the wider dissemination of Renaissance culture. The approach is interdisciplinary and students will learn about the historical background to the Renaissance and about the art, literature and architecture of the period.

Entry requirements

A bachelors degree in a relevant discipline (or equivalent).

Course structure

Students complete 48 points, including one 12-point core unit and three 12-point elective units.

Core unit

• HYM4075 Studying the Renaissance

Elective units

• HYM4690 Pageant and power: the Renaissance Papacy
• HYM4840 Text and community in Renaissance Italy
• HYM4330 Cultures of devotion in Renaissance Italy
• HYM4115 Private and public voices in Renaissance correspondence
• MUM4040 Medieval and Renaissance music
• ENH4700 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
• or one other approved 12-point unit

Further elective offerings from within the faculty are planned to be introduced in future years, including 'Visions and revisions of Renaissance lives' (history), 'The other Tuscany' (visual culture), 'Renaissance literature' (English) and 'From script to print: books and society in the West, 1300-1600'.
One unit will be offered in Prato each year (in intensive mode).

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