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PgDip English - Literary Studies

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Full time | Queen's University Belfast | 1 year | 16-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

16-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Literature English Language

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

To provide students with the opportunity to develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of English Literary Studies, enabling students to pursue specialised fields of study (via guided pathways in specialist areas) or to choose a flexible arrangement of topics which bypass traditional period or national boundaries.

English - Literary Studies Highlights

Internationally Renowned Experts

You will be taught by staff with interests that range across the English subject area and who have research profiles of international standing.

Student Experience

The MA in English Literary Studies offers a number of special features. Some of the American Literature and Culture topics will engage with contemporary examples of American art and culture through field work. Some modules use connections to the History subject area and to the archives in Armagh, Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.

Modules

Dickens in Context
Discourses of Crime and Deviance
Popular Fiction at the Fin de Siecle
America?s Aftermaths
Adapting the Literary Text
Incorrigibly Plural
Literary Research Methods
Contemporary Literature in Crisis
Debating Modernity in Contemporary Indian Literature
Decadence and the Birth of Modernism
Irish Women?s Writing
A Space for Radical Openness? Writing the Margins in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
Special Topic Irish Writing
Irish Poetry
Shakespeare and Asia
Fictions of Female Community 1660-2007
African Fiction: Race, Rites and Religion
Trauma and Memory
Shakespearean Childhoods
Narratives of Atlantic Slavery
Magic and Science in Medieval Writings

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,867

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£14,333

Entry requirements

Normally a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in English, or joint or combined Honours with English as a major subject. Applications may be considered from those who hold a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in a subject other than English (e.g. Classics, Law) if previous expertise in textual analysis or cultural history can be demonstrated. The University's Recognition of Prior Learning Policy provides guidance on the assessment of experiential learning (RPEL).