History
Programme structure
The MA in Western Esotericism is a Distance Learning course studied part-time over 23 months. It comprises a total of 180 credits made up from a number of taught modules and a dissertation.
Compulsory Modules
- The Western Esoteric Traditions: Historical Survey and Research Methods (45)
- Theosophy and the Globalisation of Esotericism (30)
- Dissertation (60)
Option Modules
You will make up the rest of the credits from a number of option modules. The programme will offer at least four modules from this list in any one year:
- Gnosticism Old and New (15)
- Alexandrian Hermetism, Neo-Platonism and Astrology (15)
- The Hermetic Art of Alchemy (15)
- History of Western Astrology (15)
- Renaissance Kabbalah and Its Influence (15)
- Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry (15)
- Esoteric Traditions in English Literature and Society 1550 - 1670 (15)
- The Esoteric Body (15)
- Sufism and Islamic Devotional Life (15)
