Courses in this Field

 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 

 

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These are the courses we know about so far, it is not claimed to be an exhaustive list, nor a recommendation of any course or courses to the detriment of any which are NOT listed here. Please contact the institution involved, not us, for further details.

 

Key: duration of courses is indicated as follows: 12m f/t = 12 months full time, 24m p/t = 24 months part-time, etc

In The UK

 

Adult Education Opportunities in London: these are several interesting short courses run by the academic Ken Rees; see here

 

Exeter University: MA in the History and Literature of Witchcraft. This unique interdisciplinary taught programme gives students a grounding in the historiography of witchcraft studies and introduces the approaches of the different disciplines involved. Modules: Research Skills and Methodology, Historiography of Witchcraft Studies, Texts and Contexts, Disenchantment of the World?: Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe, Dissertation.       12m f/t, 24m p/t                                    Web link             (this text Ó University of Exeter 2002)

 

Exeter University: BA undergraduate history modules dealing with historical witchcraft, as part of a three-year undergraduate degree. Web link

 

Bath Spa University: Postgraduate study and intended undergraduate modules in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology web link

 

School of African and Oriental Studies, London: MA in gender studies and religion web link

 

Cardiff University: Pagan subjects within BA Religious Studies 3-year degree. Web link

From October 2003- MA in Religious Studies, with a module choice that can include a course based entirely on Pagan subject materials.

 

Open University: BA degree modules on pagan subjects within various tailored degree programmes Web link

 

University of Kent, Canterbury
MA in Mysticism and Religious Experience 12 m f/t, 24 m p/t http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/postgrad/MAMYSTICISM/index.htm

Hertfordshire University: BA undergraduate module on history of magic and witchcraft in year two as part of a three-year degree. Web link

 

Lampeter University: to follow

 

Bristol University: BA undergraduate 2nd year module in history of British paganism as part of a 3-year degree Web link

 

University of the West of England: within a 3-year (fulltime) Sociology degree: Magic, Mystery, and Modernity, a year 2 sociology module, includes methodology, The Renaissance, enlightenment, Magic and Psychoanalysis, Crowley and Thelema, Nazism and the Occult, Contemporary Satanism and ritual abuse, Magic and the fictive, Art and the occult, Chaoism and the postmodern, Diggers and Dongas: Paganism, nature and protest, Techgnosis: Magic, technology, and cyberspace, The Great Mother Goddess: Feminism and women’s mysteries. Web link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In Mainland Europe

 

Netherlands: University of Amsterdam Dept of Religious Studies offers international students the unique possibility of following an M.A. (Master's) trajectory in "Mysticism and Western Esotericism" (either in a 1-year or a 2-year variant). All courses taught in English.

 

 

In North America                                                       UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

In Australasia

 

Elsewhere in the World

 

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