The Graduate School

1. Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities!Postgraduate Taught Masters Induction 2013Prof Peter M BoenischActing Director of Graduate Studies (Autumn Term),Faculty of Humanities The Graduate School

2. 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

3. We also have a campus in Paris … and European Centres in Rome (History and Archaeology) Athens (Heritage Management) Brussels The Faculty of Humanities

4. 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

5. Structure Diagram for PG Programmes Senate Vice-Chancellor Graduate School Board Dean of the Graduate School Programme Approval Sub-Committee Faculty Boards Deans Faculty Graduate Studies Committee Faculty Directors of Graduate Studies School Graduate Studies Committee School Directors of Graduate Studies Staff/Student Liaison Committees Programme Director / Convenor / Module Tutor

6. 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

7. Your taught Masters Degree Key Information: kent.ac.uk/humanities/postgraduate/taught.html

8. 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

9. 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.

10. The Faculty of Humanities • Research activities are focussed through the Research Centres within the Faculty:

11. 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 (1)

12. 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 Faculty of Humanities – Research Centres (2)

13. 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)

14. 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

15. 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 • ….

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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