24 Online Humanities MA Degree Programs in United Kingdom

The Master of Arts in Contemporary Creative Writing at Northeastern University London equips students with the knowledge, craft skills and discipline needed to be a creative writer now. There are more routes to publication available than ever before. However, navigating the twenty-first century literary marketplace requires specialist skills and knowledge alongside artistic prowess.

Prepare for a career as a professional translator. Our industry-focussed MA Translation Studies gives you the translation and project management skills you need to stand out as a translator. Study from anywhere in the world on this distance learning MA.

Advance your understanding in the study of language and take English teaching to the next level. Our flexible distance learning course fits around your life so you can learn while working anywhere in the world. This course is for you if you're interested in applying language research to language teaching methods and want to advance your career teaching English.

Whether you want to develop your overall craft of creative writing or specialise in a particular form, this Creative Writing MA will help you achieve your goals. Our award-winning former creative writing students include Booker-shortlisted Oyinkan Braithwaite, Joe Pierson, who won the Bridport Prize, Stefan Mohammed, awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize, Bafta-winner Sarah Woolner, the acclaimed poet Dom Bury and celebrated novelist Faiqa Mansab.

This master's degree MA in Classical Studies provides you with the opportunity to discover what it means to do Classical Studies in the twenty-first century. You’ll investigate a range of ancient and contemporary ideas about the Greek and Roman worlds through encounters with literary texts, languages, classical mythology, historical sources and archaeological remains, and their ongoing significance for later periods, places, cultures and creative practices. 

Take your study of History to the next level and benefit from Birmingham’s stellar teaching and research reputation from anywhere in the world with our flexible online course.

Studying this MA in Philosophy will hone your ability to think clearly and logically, and develop your writing, research and analytical skills. you will study texts from different periods and philosophical perspectives, including works by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt; and you will investigate contemporary debates on environmental aesthetics, consciousness, global justice, emotion, and morality in politics.

MA in Translation qualification is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a professional translator, equipping you to work in the fast-growing translation services industry. You will experiment with different genres through practical, inspiring translation activities, and hone your practice through peer review. You will gain hands-on experience in using tools necessary to operate in this rapidly evolving area (e.g. audiovisual translation or cloud-based translation tools).

The MA in History provides you with the opportunity to explore society, politics and culture in Britain and Ireland during either the early modern (c.1500-1780) or modern (c.1750-1970) period. Using our world-class collection of online primary source materials together with collections of documents and artefacts in local and national repositories, you will produce an independent research project on a topic of your choice.

The MA in Art History draws upon the exciting research and outstanding teaching expertise of the department. Studying art history at the postgraduate level will deepen your understanding of art, architecture and visual culture, build your analytical and critical skills, and develop the skills needed for independent study and research. You will complete this degree by researching and writing a dissertation on an agreed topic of your own devising.

Our MA in English Literature introduces you to studying literature, poetry, drama and prose in relation to culture and across three broad themes. These are literary-popular culture, which includes exploring genre writing, the bestseller and mass literary production; revolution and literature, in which you’ll encounter texts representing revolutionary social or political change; and global literary cultures where you’ll look at English literature as an international literary form.

This MA in Creative Writing qualification is an opportunity to develop your skills as a writer in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and scriptwriting for film, radio and the stage. You will be able to write in a genre of your choice and experiment with at least one other through practical and inspiring activities. You will work towards producing a substantial piece of your own creative writing to a professional standard.

Immerse yourself in the world of Shakespeare in his beautiful hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. Our dedicated Shakespeare Institute research centre means you’ll benefit from the expertise of our academics and join a community of staff and students who share your love of Shakespeare.

Join our community of internationally renowned, award-winning writers at the Manchester Writing School, where collaboration and experimentation are at the heart of what we do.

Death, Religion and Culture at Winchester is a distance learning course that explores the universal reality of death.