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English Literature: Modernities - Literature, Culture, Theory at University of Glasgow - UCAS

University of Glasgow

Degree level: Postgraduate

English Literature: Modernities - Literature, Culture, Theory (Taught)

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Course summary

Guided by a team of internationally recognised experts, you will investigate the key texts and concepts which shape our understanding of literature and culture across a period of radical change from 1880 to the present. You will relate the literary texts you study to developments in other cultural practices, such as film, theatre and the visual arts. WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • The programme has an international reputation for delivering outstanding research-led teaching, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary and theoretically informed approaches to this literary period.
  • You will have access to world class libraries and museums, as well as the extraordinary diversity of cultural, literary and artistic events that make Glasgow such an enriching place for postgraduate study.
  • The programme includes tailored workshops with the University’s archives and Special Collections as well as a bespoke field trip to the archives of the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Full-time Students: Semester 1 - September to December English Literature Research Training Course Modernities I:1880-1945 One optional course Semester 2 - January to March Modernities 2: 1945 to the present Two optional courses Summer - April to September Modernities Dissertation Part-time Students: First Year Research Training Course Both compulsory Modernities courses One optional course Second Year Two optional courses Dissertation OPTIONAL COURSES We have affiliated option courses, and students may also choose from courses in the subject, School, and College of Arts & Humanities (by arrangement with conveners and subject to agreement and availability of places). Not all options will be available in any given year, depending on staff availability. A number of option courses have been devised with the needs of the Modernities programme particularly in mind including, but not limited to: African Modernities: Colonialism and Postcolonialism in the Novel Decadence And The Modern The American Counterculture, 1945-75 Contemporary Realisms Fantasies of Energy (PGT) Modern Everyday The Mind of the Contemporary American Novel Virginia Woolf Writes Modernity F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Dialogues of American Literary Modernism Futures: Unbundling the Now The Tomorrow People: Speculative Bodies and Minds in Contemporary Culture Psychoanalysis and Empire Raw Material: Literature, Empires, Commodities (PGT) DELIVERY All taught courses are 20 credits and are delivered in weekly 2 hour seminars or similar. Students are taught in seminars and proceed through a planned sequence of reading and discussion. The working style however is exploratory rather than didactic; students are expected to engage fully with primary sources, to develop, express and take responsibility for their own opinions and to work towards independent argument and expression in their resulting coursework and dissertation.

How to apply

International applicants

International applicant information can be found via gla.ac.uk by searching for 'international'. Classes start September 2021 and you may be expected to attend induction sessions the week before.

Entry requirements

2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in English Literature or American or Irish or Scottish or History of Art or Philosophy or any Modern Language or Film and Television Studies or Theatre Studies or any other national Literature or Comparative Literature or any other relevant subject. Please include a short statement of around 500 words outlining your interest in this programme. We also require a sample of written work of around 3,000 words in length. This can be a previous piece of work from an undergraduate degree. The work should be written in English. The content does not have to cover a topic related to this specific programme, however the sample should show the potential to engage successfully with postgraduate-level literary studies by demonstrating analytical ability and knowledge of appropriate scholarly methods and conventions.

Fees and funding

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

All fees are published on the University of Glasgow website. https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/feesandfunding/

Sponsorship information

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English Literature: Modernities - Literature, Culture, Theory at University of Glasgow - UCAS