Arthurian Literature MA/PgDip
Postgraduate
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Start date
September
The course is an exciting, long standing, and successful academic course that benefits from the expertise of world class academics, outstanding library resources, and a unique location with medieval roots in the legend. Research skills taught during the first semester will enable students to engage with a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and sources, ranging from theoretical, historical and cultural aspects of the Arthurian myth.
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The course aims to enable understudies to: Write lucidly in an academic register, to compose footnotes to reference the most common kinds of material referred to in literary critical essay and to produce a Works Cited, using the MHRA system.
Demonstrate an understanding of some of the major themes in literary theory
Gain a good understanding of literary research methodologies;
Present sophisticated ideas orally and textually.
Current and past research students have engaged in higher degrees, teaching, research and librarianship in higher education, publishing, and a range of related activities. Kevin Whetter is now Associate Professor at Acadia University, Canada, and has co edited Re Viewing Le Morte Darthur (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2005); Dr Takako Kato is Research Associate at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, and her study Caxton’s ’Morte Darthur’: The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text, was published at Oxford in the Medium Aevum monograph series, in 2002; Professor Yuri Fuwa teaches at Keio University, Japan; Dr Michael Cichon is Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr John Joseph Doherty works in a US university library, and Dr Mark Adderley is Professor of English at Missouri Valley College.
Applicants should normally hold a 2(i) undergraduate degree in a relevant area, demonstrating high achievement in elements relevant to the proposed research or equivalent experience. In their applications, students should outline the area in which they wish to specialise.
International students whose first language is not English: An IELTS score of 6.5 with no element below 6.0 is required.
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- Welsh
- IT
- Archaeology
- Dissertation
- Arthurian Literature
- Palaeography
- Codicology
- Medieval Arthur
- Post Medieval Arthur
- Medieval Welsh
- Arthurian romances
Course programme
Arthurian Literature MA/PgDip