Postgraduate taught programmes

Join one of the largest Classics departments in the UK and develop your interests across the entire discipline.

Study the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, through their material remains including; sculpture, funerary art, topography and visual cultures.

Our MSc in Film Studies explores central concepts in the development of film theory and film-philosophy with an emphasis on European and American cinema.

Study and explore heritage theory with a unique team of world-leading academics and heritage professionals and learn how we can draw on the past to address pressing social and environmental challenges today.

Study MA in Contemporary Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Our postgraduate degree programme addresses issues raised by the practices of contemporary art, criticism and curating.

Join our flexible online Ancient Worlds Masters programme and gain a graduate degree from a world-leading university. Explore the human past, from early prehistory to late antiquity.

This programme offers an exciting and flexible range of courses drawn from across the range of masters level courses offered by Edinburgh Law School, enabling you to tailor the LLM to meet your academic interests and future career plans.

Study for a Masters in Religion and Literature. We offer deep and broad study of the relationship between all genres of literature and religious traditions, history, thought and practice.

Our MSc Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian offers an encounter with a range of topics in literary study centred on the literary history of England, Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

On our MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, you will gain an advanced, interdisciplinary understanding of the history, modern politics, society and culture of the Islamic and Middle Eastern world, and explore the paradigms behind the various disciplines within this field.