| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Our modules are conveyed throughout one year full-time or two years parttime. This content is only an example and is subject to change.
"Young Trash": Rethinking Genre Fiction (Optional Module) Compared to "serious" literary fiction, genre fiction is frequently regarded as frivolous and of lesser significance. We "rethink" genre fiction in this module by looking more deeply at its aesthetics, politics, and undeniable value. We cover a wide range of genres in our seminars, including children's literature, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, romance, and crime fiction.
We look at the manner by which different texts - Shirley Jackson's 'The Unpleasant of Slope House', Octavia Steward's 'Fellow', Walter Mosely's 'Demon in a Blue Dress', or Sarah Waters' 'Fingersmith', for example - demonstrate the way that classification fiction can both engage and challenge. Courses will give you potential chances to fundamentally look at texts as well as to foster your own composing abilities through sort explicit composing activities and studios.
Space, Environment, and Modernity (optional module) In this module, you will investigate the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes how we perceive the environment—not just the green landscape but also the grey cityscape. You will accomplish this by considering literature's role in the development of concepts of the countryside and the city, from Romantic poets in the early nineteenth century to contemporary novelists. This assessment will involve a thought of the interrelation of tasteful, social, and social practices in portrayals of the climate, and an examination of scholarly, social, verifiable, and humanistic tensions that shape artistic reactions to the climate. William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Felicia Hemans, all Romanticists, will be studied in your coursework. You will also read works by postmodernists Sam Selvon, Clarice Lispector, and Guy Gunaratne, modernists Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Djuna Barnes.
Identities in Conflict: Gender and Sexuality in Literature In this module, we use a variety of texts to examine the shifting paradigms of gender and sexual identities from the late 19th century to the present, taking into account changes in society, culture, and politics. You will acquire a sophisticated understanding of debates, theories, and ideas relevant to the topics of gender and sexual identities through a selection of fascinating authors, such as Nella Larsen, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Alison Bechdel.
Literary and Critical Arts Research Methods This module aims to train researchers to be active, creative, and aware of their own ethical and cultural choices as contemporary writers and critics. Throughout this module, you will be asked to reflect on what it means to learn as well as the methods that are required to conduct solid and objective research. You will learn about a variety of research methods that will help you improve your literary and critical practices as well as your ability to conduct practical research.
Thesis
The Paper module gives you the valuable chance to embrace a maintained, thorough and free examination of a specific subject in scholarly investigations.
Program Outline
This Mama English Writing degree is shown by driving analysts and dynamic journalists.
The majority of modules are taught in group workshops, seminars, and online. Individual tutorials may also be included in some modules, and the dissertation module is entirely taught through one-on-one tutorials with your supervisor.
Workshops and seminars make full use of university technology, and our Virtual Learning Environment will be used to deliver and store course materials. You will be encouraged to use the Virtual Learning Environment, which will be accessible remotely.
All modules are 30 credits separated from the paper which is worth 60 credits.
In a 30-credit module you will get 33 hours of timetabled educating and you will be supposed to lead 267 hours of free review. The majority of the 60-credit dissertation is done through independent research. You will be required to complete 594 hours of independent study and receive 6 hours of tutorial supervision, which includes supervision of your work.
Each student is assigned a personal tutor who can provide academic guidance, pastoral support, and planning for personal development. There are also weekly office hours for tutors.
Workshops, research seminars, and e-learning are used together to create a supportive but critical environment. You will be acquainted with the items of common sense of getting ready and presenting your work for conceivable distribution.