European Languages and Cultures – (M.A.)

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Course aims

The course aims to:

For all pathways:

* make students fully conversant with the methods of scholarly research in a humanities discipline and the resources necessary for such research.
* equip students for further study and research.

For the MA French Studies, MA German Studies, MA Italian Studies, MA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies, MA Literature and Ideas in the 18 th and 19 th Centuries, MA Sexuality and Gender Studies, MA Culture and Dictatorship, MA Cultures of Migration, Diaspora and Exile, MA in Holocaust Studies, MA Visual Cultures of the French-speaking World:

* provide graduates holding a first degree in a modern European language or languages with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the literature and culture of one or more areas where these languages are spoken.
* provide a thorough grounding in modern critical theoretical approaches to literary and cultural studies.

For the MA Russian and East European Cultures and Societies, MA Cultures of Migration, Diaspora and Exile, MA in Holocaust Studies:

* provide for graduates without a first degree in a modern European language a course of study that introduces them to the study of the literature and culture of one or more areas within Europe and/or Latin America, and to be familiar with key primary texts from these areas in translation.

For the MA Russian and East European Cultures and Societies:

* provide graduates with the opportunity to learn and apply historical and social science methodologies where appropriate.
* provide graduates without any Russian language competence the opportunity to learn Russian language ab initio.

Module details Please note, some information in this section will change for 2009 entry.

Compulsory course units are: Research Methods I and II. Optional course units available typically include:

* Critical Concepts
* French Theatre in the 18 th Century: Theory and Practice
* Diderot
* Dance, Performance and The Body
* Turkish German Writers
* Woman at the Crossroads: Sor Juana and Nueva España
* The Medieval Saint: Iberia, 600-1500
* Trauma and Memory in 20th Century French Life Writing
* Bodies of Mystery and Imagination: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Medieval and Renaissance France
* Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
* Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary French Cinema
* German Literature and Ideas in the 18th Century
* Border Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora
* Sex, Lies and Rhetoric: the Book of Celestina
* Portuguese Women's Writing pre and post Revolution
* Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam
* Television and the Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia