The University of Buckingham’s Master’s programme in the History of Western Architecture enables appropriately qualified students to undertake expertly supervised research in an area of European or American architectural history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. Individual research topics are closely focused but the approach of the course is to encourage students to investigate the broader cultural, intellectual, and social environments of which architecture is part, and, where appropriate, to consider questions of patronage, iconography, and interior as well as exterior design.Recent dissertations have surveyed, for example, the Baroque mural in English country house decoration the Gothic Revival as exemplified by the architect Anthony Salvin and the relationship between garden design and architecture in the course of the eighteenth century. The choice of subject area is ultimately the student’s own. The choice of subject area is ultimately the student’s own.