Entry requirementsEntry requirements Most applicants will have an undergraduate degree with First or Upper Second Class Honours (or the equivalent) in English or such related fields as History, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. Where a North American marking scheme is used, applicants should have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.3. Promising applicants who do not meet the formal academic criteria but who possess relevant credentials and who can demonstrate their ability to produce written work at Master’s level will also be considered. Applicants may be invited to interview or asked to submit examples of written and/or creative work. We welcome applications from mature and non-traditional students.
Academic titleMA English Studies: Writing in the Modern Age
Course descriptionThis MA examines how modernism and modern writing have encountered a range of intellectual debates in areas such as politics, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, postcolonialism, and critical theory. Through reflecting on the dynamic relationships between these different discourses, the programme will provide you with a series of tools for thinking about the nature, status, and role of literature in the modern world.
Programme outline
You take a core module Modernism and After in semester one, and you also attend a research
training seminar Introduction to Research Resources. In the second semester you take a nonassessed module, Researching Modern Culture, which aims to introduce you to theoretical ideas, research methodologies and strategies that will enable you to devise research projects concerned broadly with modern or contemporary culture.
In addition, you choose three optional modules (one in semester one and two in semester 2) from a list which may include:
* Cultural Legacies of the Great War
* Freud and Proust
* The Harlem Renaissance
* Imagining the Modern Caribbean
* Modernism, Aesthetics and Politics
* Modernism and Ireland
* Notions of Progress and Civilisation
* Postcolonialism, Language and Identity
* Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture
* Time and Historical Imagination
* Writing the East End
Assessment
Coursework (67 per cent)
Assessment for each module is a 4,000-word essay.
Dissertation (33 per cent)
A dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words