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This programme aims to develop your critical and analytical skills in relation to current ideas in African politics, history and anthropology or African and Caribbean literature. It provides you with the opportunity to identify, investigate in depth and write up a research topic of your own, including the use of archival, oral media and internet sources. The programme offers seven alternative pathways allowing you to focus on a particular area within the subject. As with all MRes students, you take three taught modules| on research methods and substantive subject-specific topics: You also write a dissertation of 20,000 words in the final term on a topic of your choice relevant to the focus of the pathway chosen. Pathways African and Caribbean Literature This pathway offers you the opportunity to study options in both African and Caribbean literatures and to work on an extended study within a comparative framework. African Literature and Post-colonial Critical Theory This pathway examines the development of African literature in English in the 20th century in the context of a survey of the ways in which that literature has been read over time, paying particular attention to responses to those critical theories by African writers themselves. Gender Issues in Africa This pathway examines gender relations in African states and societies, particularly in the light of different strands of theoretical feminist work. Through examination of specific examples, it looks at the significance of gender as an axis for analysis in policy areas in African contexts. History and Politics of Southern Africa This pathway examines contemporary Southern African societies and politics in their 19th- and 20th-century historical contexts. The emphasis is on the emergence of modern South Africa s system of racial domination and its effects on government and economic development in the broader Southern African region. Media and Popular Culture in Africa This pathway aims to provide you with the research skills necessary to undertake an interdisciplinary study of contemporary African culture, with a particular emphasis on media, performance and popular culture. Atlantic Slavery This pathway examines the emergence, intensification and decline of the Atlantic Slave Trade from 1500 to 1860. You will have the opportunity to explore the primary sources used by historians of Atlantic Slavery, and to evaluate competing historical interpretations of the trade s effects on West African societies. Independent Study This pathway allows students whose particular interests do not fall within any of the above pathways to develop a specialism in a chosen topic through guided reading, writing and discussion, subject to availability of supervision.

International students Academic requirements We accept a range of qualifications, our country pages show you what qualifications we accept from your country. English language requirements You can satisfy our English language requirements in two ways: f supervItemalue+oSn++???A????#? ?+???????????????????????????????????+