MIGRATION LITERATURES AND CULTURES (MA)

Birkbeck, University of London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

Our MA Migration Literatures and Cultures provides you with an advanced introduction to the literary-cultural significance of migration. As well as being a global geopolitical phenomenon, migration is a creative process of 'world-making' that has prompted writers, filmmakers and artists to draw on the cross-cultural currents generated by movement across borders. You will explore these processes with leading academics and practitioners in the field of migrant arts and transnational cultures.

The course examines contemporary literary and cultural production not as a stable national output, but as part of a dynamic transnational context. You will explore how media, texts and cultural objects are produced and circulate across both real and imagined borders. You will engage with debates about how literature and culture, and their attendant theories, practices and methodologies, have become transnational in scope, focusing on key concepts such as:

world literature and comparative studies
globalisation
migration and diaspora
adaptation
translation
postcoloniality
digital cultures
climate crisis
networked worlds

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

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 a related subject, for example, English literature, media studies or history.

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.

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Subjects

  • Global
  • Migration Literatures
  • Literatures
  • Cultures
  • Cultural and Critical Studies
  • Critical Studies

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

You take two core modules and two option modules. You then write a dissertation on any aspect of migration literature and culture from Easter to September in your final year.

CORE MODULES
  • Migration Literatures and Cultures
  • New Directions in Cultural and Critical Studies
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • Art and Identity: 'Race', Ideology, Culture
  • Colonialism and Modernity
  • Culture and Human Rights
  • Imagining the Nation
  • Interrogating the Self
  • Issues in Global Television: Analogue, Digital, National, Transnational
  • Memory and History
  • Post-Colonial Discourse and the Novel
  • Theory of Clouds
  • Transcultural Memory
MA MIGRATION LITERATURES AND CULTURES DISSERTATION
  • Dissertation MA Migration Literatures and Cultures

Additional information

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

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MIGRATION LITERATURES AND CULTURES (MA)

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