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Literature, Culture and Identity – (M.A.)
University of Portsmouth
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
| Location: | Portsmouth / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Portsmouth
This programme centres on key aspects of cultural identity, expressed in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. It is designed to examine a range of theoretical discourses relating to the 'subject' and to consider these alongside literary works from the Renaissance to the present day. You will be asked to question whether one can speak of a unified cultural identity and to interrogate the ways in which the subject has been constituted at significant points in social history. Topics covered will include: colonialism, the postcolonial subject, feminism, homosexuality and revisions of masculinity. In addition you will be encouraged to develop your own interests in exploring these topics beyond the level of an undergraduate degree and to pursue your own projects across a wide range of available supervision areas.
The University of Portsmouth is one of the leading centres of European Studies in the UK. In the last UK Research Assessment Exercise European Studies at Portsmouth received a grade five (research of international excellence). The MA in Literature, Culture and Identity is taught by staff who are researchers in the Centre for European and International Research and who have published extensively in relevant areas of literary and cultural analysis, with many years’ experience of teaching and supervision.
The course can be studied full-time over one year or part-time over two years.
Contents
At the heart of the course is the production of a Masters dissertation, a substantial piece of individual research work. Supporting your achievement in this are a series of taught units, introducing advanced research skills, analytical techniques and methodological perspectives that you will need for work at the cutting edge of contemporary humanities.
In addition to ‘Humanities Research Skills’, you will study a core unit, ‘Cultural Identities,’ which aims to engage students in thinking critically about cultural constructions of identity, enabling you to focus on changing cultural perceptions of racial and sexual identity in theoretical writings from the nineteenth century to the present. You will then choose from two core options: ‘Body Maps: Deviancy, Regulation and the City’ or ‘Memory, Empire and Crime’ and one further option which may be specific to your degree, such as ‘Performing Genders’; an option chosen from those available on other, related, degree courses; or you may choose to engage in an independent project to be agreed with the Course Leader who will arrange appropriate supervision.
* Three core units: Humanities Research Skills; Cultural Identities; Humanities MA Dissertation
* One subject core unit:either Body Maps: Deviancy, Regulation and the City or Memory, Empire and Crime
* One option:either Performing Genders or the Independent Project or one of the options offered on related degrees (MA Literature, Crime and Culture; MA Memory Cultures)
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A good second class honours degree, or above, in the field of literature or a related combination of subjects.
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 7.0 or equivalent with no component less than 6.5
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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