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Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture – (M.A.)
University of York
Department of English and Related Literature| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,560 - ≈ € 15,305 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | York / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of York
The Modern School offers a broad range of options in the literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within the structure of its MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture. These options enable individual graduate students to construct a distinct, individually chosen MA programme, yet build on the critical, theoretical, and historical contexts that are established in the core course. Students can design a course that will suit their wish either to acquire a general knowledge of the period or to specialise in a particular area.
Full-time students take the core course and one option course during the Autumn Term, and two option courses during the Spring term. Part-time students take the core course during their first term, then one option course in each following Autumn and Spring Term. The required course work consists of three assessed essays of approximately 4,500 words each. The Summer Term and the rest of the academic year are devoted to the production of a 15-20,000 word dissertation, written in consultation with a supervisor on a topic to be agreed with the course convenor, to be submitted in September. Full-time students complete the course in one year, part-time students in two years.
Contents
The programme is fully modularised and divided into 4 taught modules (one compulsory, three option), a research skills training programme, and a research dissertation.
Core
An introduction to some of the key critical and theoretical debates in the study of modern literature and culture. It offers students the opportunity to examine a number of issues that are central to the period, such as: the relation of modern aesthetic practices to historical and social change; the inter-relation of literature with other art forms; the relationships between literature and theory; and the development of film as mass art and as radical aesthetic practice.
* Reading Modernity
Options
Available option modules may include:
* American Cinematic Myths of Landscape and City: The Western and film noir
* American Fiction Since 1960
* Conflict, Memory and Resistance in African Literature
* Flaubert and After
* Henry James
* Humouring Poetry
* The Idea of Partition
* Innovative Fictions since 1950
* Literature and Human Rights
* Modern Arabic Literature
* Narrative, Fiction, Theory
* The Novel in Africa
* The Novel Now
* Poetic Form and Cultural Formations
* Poetry and the Visual Arts
* Postcolonial Studies
* Reading Caribbean Literature and its Global Connections
* Samuel Beckett's Drama and Beyond
* South African Literatures
* Strangers to Ourselves: Dickens and Collins
* Theorising Modernism/Modernity
Option modules will vary from year to year according to staff availability, and will run subject to minimum numbers. Option modules may also be taken in other arts and humanities departments.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Candidates for admission to the MA degree should normally have a good honours degree or its equivalent in an appropriate subject. Applicants for whom English is a second language are normally expected to have achieved one of the following scores: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 620 (paper-based test)/260 (computer-based test)/105 (internet-based test); or (preferably) Cambridge Proficiency: A or B.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 620 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 260 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 105 |
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