Exeter University launching new magic degree

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Exeter University is launching a new master's degree in magic and the occult.

The top university already offers modules in magic for undergraduates.

Now it's taking advantage of a rise in interest in the subject to start a new one-year full-time higher level course.

Academics with expertise in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, sociology, psychology, drama, and religion will teach the course on one of the only postgraduate courses of its kind in the UK to combine the study of the history of magic with such a wide range of other subjects.

It starts in September 2024, but it's unlikely students will be able to make the £12,000 tuition fee disappear.

Students will be able to take modules on dragons in literature and art, the legend of King Arthur, palaeography, Islamic thought, archaeological theory and practice, the depiction of women in the Middle Ages, the book in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, gender, society and culture in Early Modern Europe and the philosophy of psychedelics. 

Course leader Professor Emily Selove said: “A recent surge in interest in magic and the occult inside and outside of academia lies at the heart of the most urgent questions of our society. Decolonisation, the exploration of alternative epistemologies, feminism, and anti-racism are at the core of this programme.”