Selection of specialist courses
In addition to taking the core course, students select from a menu of specialist options.
Below is a typical sample of courses that may be offered in a given year:
- Democracy: Ancient and Modern Richard Bourke (QMUL) [not running 2012-13]
- Propaganda and Ideology in Rome Valentina Arena (UCL)
- Languages of politics: Italy 1250-1500 Serena Ferente (KCL)
- Political Thought in Renaissance Europe Iain McDaniel (UCL)
- Early-modern theories of the state Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
- The Public Sphere in Britain, 1476 - 1800 Jason Peacey (UCL)
- Signs, Mind, and Society: Early Modern Theories of Language Avi Lifschitz (UCL)
- Enlightenment and Revolution: Political Ideas in the British Isles 1688-1800 Ian McBride (KCL)
- Selfhood, Sensibility and the Politics of Difference in the European Enlightenment Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)
- From Hume to Darwin God, Man and Nature in European Thought Niall O'Flaherty (KCL)
- Visions of Capitalism Jeremy Jennings (QMUL)
- In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1790-1890 Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL)
- Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism Maurizio Isabella(QMUL)
- Crisis and Future in Nineteenth-Century European Thought Axel Körner (UCL)
- Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, 19th–20th Centuries Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)