Course Description
This MA programme provides the opportunity to explore some of the most exciting and challenging works written in English, by writers from across the world, since the mid-nineteenth century – along with major artistic achievements in film, music and popular culture. It provides contexts for understanding these works in relation to historical, social, political, philosophical and technological developments of the period.
The programme explores a range of media, forms and genres using a variety of scholarly approaches, and encourages the development of independent research skills. The core module encourages close reading of works by writers of the period, while the optional modules offer the opportunity to analyse technologies, media, philosophical perspectives and art forms underpinning writing from 1850 to the present.
Course Content
Compulsory module
The compulsory Authors module (60 credits) is taught over two terms and assessed by a take-home exam at the end of April.
- Authors
Optional modules
The majority of students elect to take 'Contexts' (60 credits) and two of the six 'Options' (15 credits each) run by the English department.
- Recent topics in Contexts include:
- Modernity and the City
- Underworlds
- Filming New York
- The Wireless Imagination
- Hauntings
- Blackness and the City
- Queer Fictions and the City
- Options modules change each year, but recent years have included:
- Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture
- Chance and the Avant Garde: Accident, Error and Catastrophe in Literature and Culture since 1960 to the Present
- Queer Literature, Queer Theories
- Metafiction and the Novel after 1945
- The Literature Machine
- Contemporary Poetry
- Marxist Aesthetics in the 20th Century
- Cultures of Offence
- Global Anglophone Literature
Students on this MA programme may request to take a module taught elsewhere in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL.
Entry Requirements
Entry requirements
A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard will normally be required. This is a competitive MA, however, and the majority of our successful applicants either have, or are predicted to gain, a first class undergraduate degree (or overseas equivalent).
English language requirements
If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.
The English language level for this programme is: Good
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