StudyQA — Master: Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment

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MA Literature is our flagship course. Two of your five modules are compulsory: The Novel acts as a good grounding to the study of literature at MA level and as a focal point for all our students on this course, while Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis offers essential training in the skills and methodology necessary to succeed at this, and higher, levels of graduate research.

Beyond that, our course is characterised by a high degree of choice, with room for you to focus on specialist interests, such as US literature or Shakespeare, or to sample from different areas. You graduate with textual and analytical skills that are relevant to a wide range of future careers.

Please note that this course is also available on a part-time basis.

A Masters course is an academically rigorous programme during which you explore your subject in depth, reaching a high level of specialist knowledge. You draw on knowledge and skills from your undergraduate study or your professional life to produce work of a high academic standard, informed by current thinking and debate.
A Masters course lasts for twelve months (full-time), starting in October, and consists of taught modules during your autumn and spring terms, and normally a research-based dissertation or other project-based work submitted in September. Typically your research (dissertation) counts for 80 credits and there are 100 credits of modules, each individual module worth 20 credits. (If you are from the EU, then our Masters courses are regarded as second-cycle qualifications under the Bologna Declaration and consist of 90 ECTS credits).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Modules

Core modules

Dissertation
Research Methods In Literary And Cultural Analysis

Compulsory modules

Early Modern To Eighteenth Century Literature
Georgian And Romantic Literature And Drama
Liuterature And Performance In The Modern City

Optional modules

"There Is A Continent Outside My Window" : United States And Caribbean Literatures In Dialogue
Adaptation
African American Literature
Documentary And The Avant-Garde Film And Video
Dramatic Structure
Film And Video Production Workshop
Literature And The Environmental Imagination: From East To West In 19th & 20th C Poetry And Prose
Memory Maps: Practices In Psychogeography
Oulipian Practice
Poetic Practice
Research Methods In Literary And Cultural Analysis
The New Nature Writing
The Novel
Us Nationalism And Regionalism
Writing Magic
Writing The Novel

Core modules must be taken and passed.
Core with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken and passed.
Compulsory modules must be taken.
Compulsory with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken.
Optional modules are selected from course specific lists.

Upper second class honours degree, or equivalent, in relevant subject area.IELTS 7.0. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 7 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.