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| Application Deadline: | Applications can be made at any time | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,102 - ≈ € 13,083 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Loughborough / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Loughborough University
This programme offers students the opportunity to study one of a number of named pathways as follows:
* Negotiated Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Prof Nigel Wood)
* Modern and Contemporary Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Dr Brian Jarvis)
* American Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Dr Andrew Dix)
* Victorian Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Dr Nick Freeman)
* Early-Modern Writing Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Prof Elaine Hobby)
* Creative Writing Pathway(Pathway Co-ordinator: Ms Carolyn Scott-Jeffs)
Students who choose the Negotiated Pathway need to select, with guidance from the Pathway Co-ordinators, a combination of modules that is not available on any other Pathway, but which has academic coherence.
Modules listed are correct at the time of publication. Changes may be made to the structure and delivery of programmes, but content will remain broadly the same.
Contents
Negotiated Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Research Methods
Semester 2 * Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 1 (choose 2) * Departures
* Special Subject 1
* History, Nation and Difference
* Early-Modern Texts in Performance
* Early-Modern Contexts: Power, Gender, Religion and Race
* Discourse as Social Practice
* Critical Thinking
* Texts in Performance: Contexts
* On the Road: American Travel and its Meanings
Semester 2 (choose 2) * Diversions
* 'Clarissa': Texts, Contexts and Post-Texts
* Modern and Contemporary Texts in Performance
* Special Subject 2
* The American Novel Now
* Renaissance Playhouse Practice
* Writing and the English Revolution
* Restoration Writings
* Women's Verse in the Eighteenth Century
* History and History Plays: Description, Desire and Prescription
* (Impoliteness): Theories and Applications
* The 20th Century European Novel
* Charles Dickens
* Perspectives
* Exploring the Early-Modern Body
* Reading American Poetry
* The Texts of Jacques Derrida
* Romantic Representations of the South Pacific
* Psychoanalysis, Creativity, Textuality
* Food and Early-Modern Literature
* 19th Century European Adultery Fiction
* Literary Londons
* 1895: Literature and Scandal
Modern and Contemporary Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Research Methods
* History, Nation and Difference
* Critical Thinking
Semester 2 * Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 2 (choose 1 or 2 from this list) * The 20th Century European Novel
* The Texts of Jacques Derrida
* Romantic Representations of the South Pacific
* Psychoanalysis, Creativity, Textuality
(If only one option is chosen from the above list, an additional option must be chosen from the list of semester 2 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
American Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Research Methods
* Critical Thinking
* On the Road: American Travel and its Meanings
Semester 2 * Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 2 (choose 1 or 2 from this list) * The American Novel Now
* Reading American Poetry
(If only one option is chosen from the above list, an additional option must be chosen from the list of semester 2 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
Victorian Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Research Methods
* History, Nation and Difference
* Critical Thinking
Semester 2 * Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 2 (choose 1 or 2 from this list) * Charles Dickens
* 19th Century European Adultery Fiction
* Literary Londons
* 1895: Literature and Scandal
(If only one option is chosen from the above list, an additional option must be chosen from the list of semester 2 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
Early-Modern Writing Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Research Methods
* Early-Modern Texts in Performance
* Early-Modern Contexts: Gender, Religion and Race
Semester 2 * Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 2 (choose 1 or 2 from this list) * 'Clarissa': Texts, Contexts and Post-Texts
* Renaissance Playhouse Practice
* Writing and the English Revolution
* Restoration Writings
* Women's Verse in the Eighteenth Century
* History and History Plays: Description, Desire and Prescription
* Exploring the Early-Modern Body
* Food and Early-Modern Literature
(If only one option is chosen from the above list, an additional option must be chosen from the list of semester 2 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
Creative Writing Pathway
Compulsory ModulesSemester 1 * Departures
* Research Methods
Semester 2 * Diversions
* Dissertation
Optional ModulesSemester 1 (choose 1) * (See list of semester 1 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
Semester 2 (choose 1) * (See list of semester 2 optional modules available on the Negotiated Pathway.)
Modules
Modules listed are correct at the time of publication. Changes may be made to the structure and delivery of programmes, but content will remain broadly the same.
Assessment
Dissertation 15,000 words. Other modules normally assessed by two 3,000-word essays (20 credits), or by two 4,000-word essays (30 credits), or equivalent.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Normally a good honours degree or equivalent in English, Drama or a related subject. Applicants with other qualifications and suitable experience may be considered, and are encouraged to apply.
Acceptable English language qualification
* GCSE English Language - Grade C or above
* IELTS band 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking
* TOEFL (including the Tests in Written and Spoken Practice) minimum score of 600 (paper-based test) or 100 (Internet-based test) with specific requirements for sub tests
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
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