Postgraduate Courses

Postgraduate Certificate in Lake District Landscape

Postgraduate Diploma in Lake District Landscape and Environment

MA in Lake District Studies

Postgraduate Certificate in Regional and Local History Online

The next intake for the courses will be October 2012 and we are currently taking enquiries and accepting applications.

The Centre for North-West Regional Studies offers three part-time face-to-face courses in Lake District Studies, which commence in October each year. A variety of approaches are taken in studying this very distinctive area of Britain. Students on the Postgraduate Certificate take two taught modules and a fieldwork module. Students on the Diploma study for two years, with four taught modules, a fieldwork module, and a short research project. Those students who pass the Postgraduate Diploma with an average of at least 60% may convert this into the MA by taking an additional taught module and completing a dissertation over a further year.

• To view or download the Course Handbook for 2011-12 please click here: Lake District Studies COURSE HANDBOOK
Potential applicants are asked to apply to join the Certificate course in the first instance - please visit the online applications site.
To view a gallery of images taken on one of the field weekends on the Lake District Studies course please go to the Gallery

NEW! Postgraduate Certificate in Regional and Local History

This is a distance learning course taught online over one year, commencing in October.

Britain is and always has been a country of contrasts. Although national and international developments affected everyone in the country in some way, they did not affect everyone consistently. People's experiences depended on their social class, whether they were male or female and, crucially, on where they lived. Regional history and local history enable us to understand these varied experiences and, in doing so, to assess how typical they might have been.

This online course aims to stimulate awareness of the role of local and regional studies for our broader understanding of Britain's diverse past. It explores different experiences across England and Wales in the century and a half before 1914, a period during which parts of the country were transformed from a largely rural economy to an urban, industrial powerhouse while others stagnated or declined, and discusses ways in which these developments affected people's work, shopping, home life, welfare, education, leisure, health, crime, political affiliations and values. It introduces you to historians' fluctuating and changing interpretations of these tumultuous years and to some of the major sources which will enable you to explore them further for yourself at local and regional level in an independent research project. Further details

Applications should be made through the online applications site