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| Application Deadline: | 30 April | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,250 ≈ € 12,600 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Dublin / Ireland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 90 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Dublin Trinity College
In the past twenty years the scholarly fields of American Literature, American Studies and Postcolonial Studies have undergone radical transformations. Their core concepts - including identity, race, citizenship, hybridity, and nationhood - have been challenged and redefined in fundamental ways both by creative writers and by theorists. This course - the first of its kind in Ireland and one of only a small number of similar courses in these islands - reflects on those changes and provides an exciting new postgraduate course of study for high calibre students.
This course provides an opportunity to engage in an advanced and detailed way with the literatures of the Americas. It stimulates fresh analyses of a wide range of literatures in English and in translation into English, by canonical, mainstream, avant-garde and marginal writers, and opens up research opportunities in this dynamic field.
Students interact with texts in various genres and from different periods in their development of a complex sense of the literatures of the Americas, and the course promotes inter-disciplinarity as a key feature of its pedagogical approach. While the degree is complete in itself, the supervised dissertation of up to 20,000 words helps to lay a foundation for doctoral research in Postcolonial and/or American literary studies.
Trinity´s School of English has a large and active cohort of research students (over 60 in the current session), and three other taught MPhil courses. Participants in the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas, the first of its kind, will be part of a long-established and vigorous academic community. A weekly staff-postgraduate research seminar offers a lively forum for debate and the exchange of ideas. Postgraduates of the School of English routinely go on to further research and successful careers, in the academy and other fields.
Contents
In addition to two compulsory core modules, students take a Research Methods module and two 1-term option module from a group of at least four in any given year, depending on staffing arrangements. The core modules are taught in two 2-hour seminars in Michaelmas and Hilary term. Students take one Option module each semester. The Research Methods module is taught in 2-hour seminars throughout Michaelmas semester. Students also have to complete a supervised dissertation, which is researched and written during the late Spring and Summer months and submitted for examination at the end of August.
Assessment
There are no timed examinations. Students submit two essays of 2,000 words for each core module (4 essays in total), and one essay of between 6,000 and 8,000 words for each option module taken. Essay titles will be provided before each module ends, but students are encouraged to propose their own titles for essays and to discuss these with the module coordinators before beginning their research. Students must complete and pass all assessment elements to pass the course. (The pass mark is 40%.) The 6 essays taken together count for 60% of the final mark and the dissertation counts for 40%. Failed work may be resubmitted with the approval of the Course Committee. Further details about College regulations pertaining to postgraduate study are available in the College Calendar, Part 2.
Dissertations
Students will begin discussing topics for their dissertations with course coordinators early in Hilary semester, and supervisors will be assigned then. Given the extensive expertise of staff in the School, they will be able to discuss a wide variety of topics. Students are expected to complete preliminary bibliographies and dissertation outlines before the end of Hilary term. Dissertations of up to 20,000 words in length are due for submission on or before the 30th of August in a given year. Students will be expected to submit 2 copies of the dissertation, which should be typed and bound in accordance with the University guidelines, available from the Graduate Studies Office or Course Administrator. Degrees will be awarded to successful candidates at the Spring Commencements in the year following completion of the course.
Option modules to be offered in 2010/11
Four option modules will be offered in 2010-11. All questions related to individual option courses should be directed to the relevant course coordinators in the first instance, as indicated below. They will also be able to provide preliminary reading lists.
Michaelmas
* Narratives of First Encounter (Dr Melanie Otto)
* Diasporic Voices (Dr Paul Delaney)
Hilary
* Creole Literatures (Dr Melanie Otto)
* American Essays (Dr Philip Coleman)
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Entry to this course is very competitive (and becoming more so every year) and prospective applicants are normally expected to have at least a high 2.1 (or equivalent) BA degree in English or a cognate discipline in order to be considered for entry.
English language requirements:
* IELTS: Grade 6.5
* TOEFL: 88 - iBT, 230 - Computer based, 570 - paper based
* Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English: Grade C
* Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English: Grade C
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 570 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 230 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 88 |
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You can contact Dr Melanie Otto to ask a question about Literatures of the Americas at University of Dublin Trinity College.
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