Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities!Postgraduate Taught Masters Induction 2013

Prof Peter M BoenischActing Director of Graduate Studies (Autumn Term),

Faculty of Humanities

The Graduate School

The Faculty of Humanities

• School of Architecture

• School of Arts Drama Film History and Philosophy of

Art

• School of English

• School of History

• School of Music and Fine Art (Medway) Fine Art Event & Experience Design Music and Audio Art

• School of European Culture and Languages Classical &

Archaeological Studies Comparative Literature English Language &

Linguistics French German Hispanic Studies Italian Linguistics Philosophy Religious Studies

The Faculty of Humanities

We also have a campus in Paris … and European Centres in

• Rome (History and Archaeology)

• Athens (Heritage Management)

• Brussels

Your Faculty Director of Postgraduate Studies

During Autumn Term 2013

Prof Peter M Boenisch

P.M.Boenisch@kent.ac.uk

(currently on Research Leave)

Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald

t.jeffers-mcdonald@kent.ac.uk

SenateVice-Chancellor

Graduate School BoardDean of the Graduate School

Faculty BoardsDeans

Faculty Graduate Studies CommitteeFaculty Directors of Graduate Studies

School Graduate Studies CommitteeSchool Directors of Graduate Studies

Staff/Student Liaison Committees Programme Director / Convenor / Module Tutor

Programme Approval Sub-Committee

Structure Diagram for PG Programmes

Your taught Masters Degree

Key Contacts:

• Your Module / Course Tutor(s)

• Postgraduate Administrator

• Your Programme Convenor [Programme Director]

• Your School Director of Graduate Studies (responsible for Taught Programmes)

• Your Postgraduate Student Representative

Your taught Masters Degree

Key Information:

kent.ac.uk/humanities/postgraduate/taught.html

Additional sources of help and support

• Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS)

• Careers and Employability Service

• Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (UELT)

• Student’s Union

• Kent Graduate Student Association

The Faculty of Humanities

• Humanities at the University of Kent has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary research as well as discipline-based research of individual academics.

The Faculty of Humanities

• Research activities are focussed through the Research Centres within the Faculty:

Faculty of Humanities – Research Centres (1)

• School of Architecture Centre for Architecture and

Sustainable Environment Centre for Research in

European Architecture

• School of Arts Centre for the Study of Art

History and Visual Cultures Centre for Cognition,

Kinesthetics and Performance European Theatre Research

Network Centre for the Interdisciplinary

Study of Film and the Moving Image

Aesthetics Research Group

• School of English Centre for Colonial and

Postcolonial Research Centre for Creative Writing Centre for Gender,

Sexuality and Writing Centre for Modern Poetry Centre for Studies in the

Long Eighteenth Century

• School of European Culture and Languages (1)

Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies

Centre for Late Antique Archaeology

Centre for Modern European Literature

Faculty of Humanities – Research Centres (2)

• School of European Culture and Languages (2)

Centre for Reasoning Centre for Religion and

Contemporary Society Centre for the History of

Archaeology

• School of History Centre for the History of

Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities

Centre for the History of the Sciences,

Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War and Society

The Faculty of Humanities

• There are also three interdisciplinary Faculty Centres: Centre for American Studies Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early

Modern Studies (MEMS) Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the

Humanities (KIASH)- hosting the KIASH lecture series

• …and one cross-Faculty Centre: Centre for Critical Thought (Politics, Law,

SECL, Arts)

The Faculty of Humanities

• Furthermore, the Faculty is part of the CHASE consortium:

• Consortium for the Humanities and Arts in South-East England (Kent, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Goldsmiths, Open University, Courtauld Institute of Art) – chase.ac.uk

The Faculty of Humanities

• There is also a buzzing heap of research-related events going on – check the University events diary Research seminars Symposia Conferences ….

Get involved and make the most of your MA-T

• Attend events beyond your subject

• Get involved in the Research Centres

• Faculty postgraduate on-line journal Skepsi (SECL)

• PG representation – become a student rep at Department, School or Faculty level

Get involved and make the most of your MA-T

• Postgraduate Student Representatives (MA-T)

• Staff Student Liaison Committees (SSLCs)

• Postgraduate Student Surveys e.g. PRES

• Kent Graduate Student Association

• The Graduate School www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool

Things you must also do...

• Walk down the hill and climb the Westgate towers

• Walk up the hill and explore Blean Woodland – one of the largest and most ancient woodlands in the South

• Rent/borrow a bike and cycle to Whitstable on the Crab and Winkle Way

• Buy a railcard and spend 55 minutes getting to London – some of the world’s best museums and galleries are on your doorstep and they are free!

• Book well in advance and travel to Brussels and Paris on the Eurostar