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| Application Deadline: | 1 August | ||
| Location: | Bristol / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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This MA provides the opportunity for you to design an interdisciplinary postgraduate programme to suit your own interests and needs. It gives you the opportunity to work comparatively across arts and humanities disciplines in a structured way.
You will learn how an understanding of reception transforms our approach to study in the arts and humanities, through a sustained engagement with critical theory. You will be equipped with a set of theoretical 'tools' for understanding the factors - historical, cultural, material; gendered, raced, classed; technological, linguistic, and semiotic - which determine how audiences make sense of artworks.
In the core units you will receive a thorough grounding in interdisciplinary critical theories of reception, enabling you to bring an informed perspective to the optional units you choose from across the whole Faculty of Arts. These will allow you to develop your individual interests further through comparative work or by specialising in a particular discipline or period.
The degree has been designed as an introduction to graduate research in the arts and humanities. It is also suitable for students who want to pursue an interest in the issues raised by theories of reception.
Contents
First Semester
* Core unit in Theories and Methods
* Two optional units
Second Semester
* Core unit in History, Time and the Archive
* Two optional units
A range of optional units on reception-related topics wll be offered across the Faculty of Arts. You will benefit not only from the excellence of the individual schools and subject areas in the Faculty of Arts (many of which have an international reputation in the field of reception), but also from Bristol's existing and very strong commitment to interdisciplinarity in research and teaching.
Dissertation
You will pursue individual research on a subject of your choice under the guidance of an appropriate supervisor or supervisors and submit a dissertation of around 15,000-20,000 words.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Entry requirements
Normally an upper second-class Honours degree in an appropriate Arts / Humanities subject.
Applications from less recent graduates and mature students without these qualifications will be considered if candidates can make a sufficiently strong case for their ability to take on this intellectually challenging programme.
Language requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5 in all bands. We also accept other language tests; please see our website for details.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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