Contemporary Literature and Culture (MA)
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Birkbeck’s MA Contemporary Literature and Culture offers you the opportunity to specialise in twenty-first-century literature and culture, as well as exposing you to the most important literary and theoretical developments of the last few decades. It considers the legacy of postmodernism, the effects of new technologies on narrative form, and the aesthetic, spatial and political coordinates of writing produced in an increasingly networked and globalised world.
Through a range of literary and interdisciplinary options, you have the opportunity to pursue your own interests, whether they lie in contemporary poetics; in fiction from Britain, the US, Europe or postcolonial nations; in the changing forms of the book in a digital age; or in historical approaches to issues like nation, race, gender and sexuality. The MA’s programme of study opens up the aesthetic, historical and political dimensions of contemporary literature and culture.
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About this course
Graduates go into careers in writing and journalism, editing and publishing, research, marketing, public relations and education. Possible professions include writing, editing, or publishing. This degree can also be useful in becoming an editorial assistant, public relations officer, magazine or newspaper journalist, or advertising copywriter.
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in literature, cultural studies, history or another relevant subject.
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.
On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.
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Subjects
- Project
- Cinema
- Human Rights
- School
- Writing
- Contemporary Literature
- Post-War to Contemporary
- Reading the Contemporary
- Contemporary
- Contemporary American Cinema
- Contemporary US Fiction
- Culture and Human Rights
Course programme
You take two core modules and two option modules.
You then write a dissertation on any aspect of contemporary literature and culture from Easter to September in your final year.
CORE MODULES- Post-War to Contemporary
- Reading the Contemporary
- Contemporary American Cinema
- Contemporary US Fiction
- Culture and Human Rights
- Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history
- Language Matters
- Post-Colonial Discourse and the Novel
- Reading Time in the Twentieth Century
- Reading Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
- Twenty-First Century Feminist Fiction and the World in Crisis
- Dissertation - MA Contemporary Literature and Culture
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.
Additional information
One year full-time or two years part-time
FEES
Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Full-time home students: £8820 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa
Contemporary Literature and Culture (MA)