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University of Kent: English and American Literature (Canterbury)
| Institution | University of Kent View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | School of English |
| Web | www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate |
| Study type | Taught |
MA
Summary
Explore the richness and diversity of English Literature from a wide range of periods, cultures, and genres. Strengthen your skills, develop your specialism and expand your critical and theoretical knowledge.
**Why study English and American Literature with us?**
**Cutting-edge literary and theoretical study:** You’ll work alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary
**Teaching new literature and new theories:** Explore diverse topics such as new modernist studies, indigenous literatures and decolonial knowledges, global writing and the environment, and the new Brexit novel.
**Make your voice heard:** be at the forefront of debate in our lively, confident, and engaged research community
**Join a new generation of critical thinkers:** develop your own critique of a culture in crisis and sharpen your critical language
**A vibrant academic community:** As a postgraduate student in the School of English, you’ll benefit from a lively, confident, and engaged research culture, sustained by a creative, cutting-edge intellectual community.
**What you’ll learn**
You'll develop advanced research skills, which you'll apply to your dissertation. This will provide you with knowledge and skills for a range of careers, including teaching, publishing, arts management, journalism and many other sectors, or a solid foundation for PhD study.
Working alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary, you'll have the opportunity to discover and expand your knowledge on a diverse range of literary periods and topics, including global literatures and indigenous decolonial knowledges, American literature and culture, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, phenomenology, disability studies, migration, and rights and activism.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). This course requires an Excellent level of English language, equivalent to C1 on CEFR. For more information regarding English language requirements, please visit out English language requirements webpage: https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/english-language-requirements |
| Location | Canterbury campus University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NZ |
Summary
Explore the richness and diversity of English Literature from a wide range of periods, cultures, and genres. Strengthen your skills, develop your specialism and expand your critical and theoretical knowledge.
**Why study English and American Literature with us?**
**Cutting-edge literary and theoretical study:** You’ll work alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary
**Teaching new literature and new theories:** Explore diverse topics such as new modernist studies, indigenous literatures and decolonial knowledges, global writing and the environment, and the new Brexit novel.
**Make your voice heard:** be at the forefront of debate in our lively, confident, and engaged research community
**Join a new generation of critical thinkers:** develop your own critique of a culture in crisis and sharpen your critical language
**A vibrant academic community:** As a postgraduate student in the School of English, you’ll benefit from a lively, confident, and engaged research culture, sustained by a creative, cutting-edge intellectual community.
**What you’ll learn**
You'll develop advanced research skills, which you'll apply to your dissertation. This will provide you with knowledge and skills for a range of careers, including teaching, publishing, arts management, journalism and many other sectors, or a solid foundation for PhD study.
Working alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary, you'll have the opportunity to discover and expand your knowledge on a diverse range of literary periods and topics, including global literatures and indigenous decolonial knowledges, American literature and culture, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, phenomenology, disability studies, migration, and rights and activism.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). This course requires an Excellent level of English language, equivalent to C1 on CEFR. For more information regarding English language requirements, please visit out English language requirements webpage: https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/english-language-requirements |
| Location | Canterbury campus University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NZ |
Summary
The English and American Literature MA allows you to choose from the full range of our MA literature modules.
The list of what’s on offer is regularly added to by academics keen to explore new areas of thinking with students and to draw you in to our established areas of research strength, such as postcolonial studies; 18th-century studies; modern poetry and fiction; or Victorian studies. The modules draw on many different critical approaches and focus on a wide range of historical periods, ideas and places from modern India to post-war New York to literary London in the 18th century.
Within this programme you may also choose to take pathways, so as to concentrate on studies in certain specific areas (especially if you intend to continue to a research degree in a particular field). This programme can also be studied in Paris only or with your year shared between Canterbury and Paris.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, and professional qualifications and experience will also be taken into account when considering applications. |
| Location | Canterbury campus University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NZ |
Summary
The English and American Literature MA allows you to choose from the full range of our MA literature modules.
The list of what’s on offer is regularly added to by academics keen to explore new areas of thinking with students and to draw you in to our established areas of research strength, such as postcolonial studies; 18th-century studies; modern poetry and fiction; or Victorian studies. The modules draw on many different critical approaches and focus on a wide range of historical periods, ideas and places from modern India to post-war New York to literary London in the 18th century.
Within this programme you may also choose to take pathways, so as to concentrate on studies in certain specific areas (especially if you intend to continue to a research degree in a particular field). This programme can also be studied in Paris only or with your year shared between Canterbury and Paris.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, and professional qualifications and experience will also be taken into account when considering applications. |
| Location | Canterbury campus University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NZ |
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