研究硕士课程适用于对学科领域具有良好常识的学生，他们希望专注于自己的兴趣并加深对特定主题的了解。为了完成该计划，您通常会就与您的主管协商选择的主题提交两篇独立的研究论文（每篇5,000个单词）。您还需要完成“艺术史”核心课程“研究理论与方法”（通过3,000字的论文进行评估）和另一门相关课程（通常从广泛的研究生课程中选择） ，由4,000字的文章或具有学分的语言课程评估）。在暑假结束时，您将需要提交15,000字的论文。
At Edinburgh College of Art within the History of Art department we provide a dynamic and supportive research environment in which your MSc by Research studies would be situated. The MSc by Research programme is for students who have strong research skills in place and wish to include a substantial research element within their study, and those who also wish to focus their interests and deepen their knowledge of a specific topic.<br><br>The research topics that we can supervise includes but is not limited to:<br><br>Medieval Art History<br>South Asian Art History<br>Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures<br>Eighteenth-Century History of Art<br>Modern and Contemporary Art History<br>Islamic Art<br>Nineteenth-Century Art<br>Curatorial Theory and Practice<br>Scottish Visual Culture<br>Early Modern<br>Contemporary Art History and Digital Culture<br>Contemporary German Art<br>Chinese Art<br><br>The MSc by Research in History of Art consists of assessed work, split between a dissertation (15,000 words) and supervised research essays on topics related to the dissertation.<br><br>The programme also includes a compulsory research training course and either a methodology course or a course from another MSc programme, if agreed to be more suitable by your supervisor and postgraduate director .<br><br>You can study on this programme either full-time over one year or part-time over two years.