Ma english literature: postcolonial and global literatures english

Structure

The Postcolonial and Global Literatures pathway is currently available for one year full-time study, or two years part-time study.

You will take four assessed modules and two non-assessed research training modules before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.

Assessed modules are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. The research-training module will involve visits to archives and galleries which may each take up an afternoon. The dissertation is supervised through sessions with a specially designated supervisor. In addition to the timetabled sessions, you will be asked to attend meetings with your adviser and course tutor. You will also need to undertake many hours of independent learning and research in order to progress at the required level. When coursework deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly.

You will take four assessed modules (two in each semester) and two non-assessed research training module (one in each semester) before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.

We understand the need for flexibility for part-time students. Part-time students take one assessed module per semester, and take the two non-assessed research training modules in Semesters One and Two. You are encouraged to begin work on your dissertation at the end of the first year, and will submit it in August of your second year. Teaching is done during the day.

• Peripheral Modernities
• Resources for Research (non-assessed)
• Researching Modern Culture (non-assessed)
• Dissertation

In 2019/20 we hope to offer the following:

• Writing the East End
• Reading the Middle East
• What is World Literature?

Students can choose to substitute one of their electives with an elective from another pathway within the MA English Literature.

You may, subject to availability and the approval of the School, take one of your option modules from across a range offered by other Schools in the Humanities and Social Science Faculty, or from other Colleges of the University of London.

In addition to taught modules, we run a range of research seminars to which all MA students are invited. Some of these are linked to our interdisciplinary Research Centres, such as the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Centre for Religion and Literature in English and the Centre for the History of the Emotions. Others are collaborations with other institutions, such as the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. With visiting speakers from across the world, these seminars are an opportunity to meet other postgraduate students and members of staff and to learn about the latest developments in research.