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Postcolonial Studies – (M.Litt.)
University of Stirling
English Studies| Application Deadline: | Autumn Semester 2011 - 1 April 2011; | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,000 - ≈ € 10,800 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Stirling / 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 Stirling
Programme Objectives The programme involves close collaboration between staff in English Studies and Languages, Cultures and Religions in order to provide a unique, comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the field of postcolonial studies. The programme examines cultural production both within and between South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Americas and Europe. Textual work will be read alongside the popular discourses of film, photography and music. Key works within postcolonial theory (for example, by Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha) will be available for study, and a wide range of intellectual issues – from ‘race’, gender and religion to diasporas, borders and home – will be analysed in literary and filmic work throughout the programme.
Coming to study at Stirling for the MLitt Postcolonial Studies you will find yourself in a thriving postgraduate culture that brings together students and academic staff from many fields of expertise and where research students play a crucial role in helping Postcolonial Studies to remain at the cutting edge of its multiple disciplines.
Contents
Structure and Content
Both full-time and part-time students will take a postcolonial studies core module over two semesters. In Semester One you will also study:
* Travelling Theories: Key works in postcolonial theory.
In Semester Two you will also study:
* Borderlands: Reading borders in writing, film and theory.
Further optional modules allow you to develop a more specialised knowledge. You will take one of these modules each semester. If you are on the part-time programme you will take the two optional modules in year two.
These modules vary depending on teaching staff, but they have included the following:
* Migrant Metropolis
* Contemporary Black British Writing
* Routes: Fictions of Travel
* Slavery and Caribbean Poetry
* Transition: West African Writing
* South Asian Diasporas
* Film and Diaspora
* Aboriginal Writing and Painting
* Postcolonial Gothic
Arts Research TrainingOur innovative training for graduates enables students to build up a portfolio of skills that prepare them for academic and professional life. All graduate students will work with their supervisors to select what’s right for them from a menu of activities. Each student will build up a portfolio of skills every year. On a taught postgraduate degree, you may be given specific guidance on what activities you need to undertake for those qualifications.
Delivery and Assessment
Teaching will take the form of regular tutorials in small groups. Though all the modules will offer close and careful supervision, you are expected to take proper responsibility for your own studies. The aim in all cases is to foster student-led learning in expert, stimulating and congenial company. Assessment in each semester will be based on coursework and essays; there are no formal examinations. Methods of assessment for each of the non-core modules may vary, but will often consist of a single essay.
DissertationThe most significant piece of work on the programme will be a dissertation of 15,000 words on a subject of your choosing in consultation with a member of English Studies. You may choose to develop work initiated on one of the modules you have studied. Those who do not embark on the dissertation may be awarded a Diploma. The work of the best students completing the programme may be deemed worthy of MLitt with Distinction.
Timetable
Contact the School for information on your timetable and reading lists.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Entrance Requirements A good upper second class or better Single or Combined Honours degree in a relevant subject or subjects from a UK university or an equivalent qualification. Applicants with other qualifications or other appropriate experience may be admitted on the recommendation of the Programme Director. English Language Requirements
If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of your proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 6 (minimum 5.5 in each skill), or TOEFL: Listening 21, Reading 22, Speaking 23, Writing 21.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
Accreditation
Over half of our submissions in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), were found to be ‘Internationally Excellent’ or ‘World- leading’.
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