Courses
The MA programme comprises a number of mandatory courses, a Special Programme component and an additional component, in which students take a number of courses outside their selected Special Programme.
The mandatory element includes courses
- Core Course: Anglophone Literatures and Cultures,
- Recent and Contemporary Trends in Literary Studies,
- 3 Diploma Seminars taught as tutorials by thesis supervisor.
The form below is designed to facilitate orientation in the range of courses which form a part of the MA programme according to the criteria outlined in the table.
Course descriptions can also be accessed in the Student Information System.
Mandatory courses
Recent and Contemporary Trends in Literary StudiesCore Course: Contemporary Approaches to Anglophone Literatures and CulturesEnglish Literature Section
Basic courses
Romantic Symbolic Poem: Coleridge, Shelley, Keats; Part I: ColeridgeElective courses
Old English Riddling PoemsExploring Middle English RomanceAnglo-American Modernist Women Authors+ elective courses supplied by other Special Programmes
Anglo-Irish Writing from Swift to ShawBritish Literature of the African and Asian Diaspora (Contemporary Black and South Asian British Writers)Experimental Fiction II - from the 1960s to the PresentAmerican Literature & Studies Section
Basic courses
Experience, Commodity Culture, & Spectacle Society: U.S. Fiction & Critical TheoryImmigrant Literature of Modernism and BeyondExperience, Commodity Culture, & Spectacle Society: U.S. Fiction & Critical TheoryImmigrant Literature of Modernism and BeyondElective courses
Ecopoetry: Ecocritical Approaches to American PoetryEcopoetry: Ecocritical Approaches to American Poetry+ elective courses supplied by other Special Programmes
Introduction to Canadian StudiesCirculating within the Postmodern Cinematic ImageCentre for Irish Studies
Basic courses
Modern Irish Literature II: Contemporary Irish DramaAnglo-Irish Writing from Swift to ShawElective courses
Irish Language+ elective courses supplied by other Special Programmes
British Literature of the African and Asian Diaspora (Contemporary Black and South Asian British Writers)Centre for British & Commonwealth Studies
Basic courses
Introduction to Canadian StudiesBritish Literature of the African and Asian Diaspora (Contemporary Black and South Asian British Writers)Introduction to Scottish LiteratureElective courses
Scottish Speculative Fiction+ elective courses supplied by other Special Programmes
Anglo-Irish Writing from Swift to ShawImmigrant Literature of Modernism and BeyondImmigrant Literature of Modernism and BeyondCentre for Critical & Cultural Theory
Basic courses
Post-War British and American Art in ContextModernism and ModernityElective courses
Circulating within the Postmodern Cinematic ImageFilm & Critical Culture IIExperimental Fiction II - from the 1960s to the Present+ elective courses supplied by other Special Programmes
Experience, Commodity Culture, & Spectacle Society: U.S. Fiction & Critical TheoryExperience, Commodity Culture, & Spectacle Society: U.S. Fiction & Critical TheoryOther
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