Interdisciplinary Masters Degrees

The MSt and MPhil in Celtic Studies are interdisciplinary courses designed to offer you the opportunity to study aspects of the language, literature, history and culture of the Celtic-speaking peoples from antiquity until the present day. While the main focus will be on Celtic languages and their associated literatures, you may also pursue interests in related fields such as history, archaeology or law.

Celtic Studies at Oxford takes you right to the heart of the language, literature, history and culture of Britain and Ireland from the earliest evidence through to the present day. The subject extends from bardic poetry to modern drama, and covers the history of the Celtic languages up to the present day. As a subject, Celtic intersects with history, literature, linguistics and archaeology, making it intrinsically interdisciplinary.

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mst-celtic-studies

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mphil-celtic-studies

The MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation is an interdisciplinary course designed to give you critical, theoretical and research expertise in the intersecting fields of comparative and world literature and translation studies.

The MSt is attached to Oxford’s research centre in Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) and builds on the recent growth in scholarly awareness of the importance of translation to comparative and world literary study. This is what is meant by ‘critical translation’: not translator training, but rather an interest in the role played by translation and re-writing in literary history, and an alertness to the uses of translation in critical practice.

The core course aims to introduce you to key topics in comparative and world literature and translation studies. Students will also choose option courses from the faculties of Medieval and Modern Languages, English Language and Literature, and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and complete a dissertation on a comparative topic that involves two languages of focus. 

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mst-comparative-literature-and-critical-translation

The purpose of the MSc in Digital Scholarship is to introduce students to the full range of issues which arise when digital tools and methods are applied to traditional humanist scholarship. The course is designed equip students to surmount those challenges, by honing their technical skills and critical thinking in this area, and enabling them to develop an ambitious, digitally-enhanced scholarly project of their own.

The course is based in the Humanities Division and spans a wide range of disciplines across all of its faculties. Students on the course also benefit from teaching provided by the Bodleian Libraries. 

During the course, students have the opportunity to be embedded within a digital humanities research project at Oxford University. Oxford has a vibrant community of researchers in this growing and important area. 

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-digital-scholarship

The Film Aesthetics degree equips students with the skills and knowledge necessary for analysing film as an art form. It concentrates on film criticism, detailed film analysis, film theory, and film-philosophy and teaches the history and the contemporary developments in the scholarly literature relating to these aspects. It encourages thoughtful and imaginative engagement with film as a medium and with individual films.

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-digital-scholarship

This interdisciplinary programme is aimed at students who wish to follow courses in more than one discipline in medieval studies, and who are keen to extend their skills. The degree is supported by several Faculties within the Humanities Division, demonstrating the University’s tremendous wealth of scholarship in the period.

The degree aims to equip students to draw on a variety of disciplinary approaches in their study of the Middle Ages, placing emphasis on language training, as well as on the development of skills in palaeography and codicology. Students will undertake option courses from across the Humanities Faculties, including the Faculty of History, the Faculty of English Language and Literature, and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mst-medieval-studies

The MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (renamed in 2021-22 from MSt in Women's Studies) brings together the contributions of five Humanities faculties (Classics, English, History, Medieval and Modern Languages, and Philosophy), encompasses wider interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g. in Chinese studies, theology, and gender and development), and offers exciting scope to follow distinctive independent intellectual pathways.  It has been a very important generative context within Oxford for radical critical thought, and graduates of the MSt have gone on to academic, policy and cultural positions across the world. 

It provides a systematic introduction to feminist theory, including queer theory and transgender theory. It highlights women's contribution to culture and history alongside critical analysis and theorisation of the meanings assigned to the category 'woman' in philosophical, literary, socio-cultural, and historical thought. At the same time, it addresses conceptions of masculinity and gender diversity and fluidity.

Find out more on the Graduate Admissions website:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mst-womens-gender-sexuality-studies