Programme Description

The MA degree can be taken full-time over one year, or part-time over two years. The taught component of this programme consists of two compulsory core modules, Approaches to Women's Studies 1 and 2; the choice of two options from a range which is updated annually; two research modules: Interdisciplinary Methods in Women's Studies and Debates in Feminist Research in the Humanities and a series of dissertation Workshops. In addition you will be allocated a supervisor for your dissertation which must be submitted towards the end of your final year.

This programme aims:

* to provide a solid grounding in interdisciplinary women's studies, emphasizing gendered aspects of cultural life, representation and textual enquiry
* to expose students to an interdisciplinary range of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to and debates within women's studies
* to familiarize students with the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of feminist methodologies in the humanities
* to foster the development of a critical, self-reflexive and independent approach to research and scholarship, as well as the acquisition of transferable skills
* to provide candidates with a range of skills and competences appropriate to higher degree research in the Humanities