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Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time
The Masters in American Modern Literature focuses on the American Literature of the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The required courses range across fields and genres including art history, film, ecocriticism, sociology, urban studies, travel writing, and music, as well as providing a grounding in traditional and emerging narratives of modern American literary history.
2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in a relevant subject however all backgrounds considered.
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. This can be a previous piece of work from an undergraduate degree. The work should be written in English. It does not have to cover a topic related to this programme. However, it should show the potential to engage successfully with postgraduate-level literary studies by demonstrating an analytical ability and knowledge of appropriate scholarly methods and conventions.
The critical and analytical skills that you will acquire include:
the ability to find, select and manage large quantities of information
confident and persuasive oral and written communication
problem solving through creative and critical thinking.
These make this programme an ideal step towards an academic or other career.
Semester 1:
English Literature Research Training Course
Modern American Literature 1
ONE OPTIONAL COURSE
Semester 2:
Modern American Literature 2
TWO OPTIONAL COURSES
Summer:
Modern American Literature Dissertation
Optional courses:
The American Counterculture, 1945-75
American Fiction of the 1930s
Canadian Literature (PGT)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Dialogues of American Literary Modernism
The Mind of the Contemporary American Novel
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