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MA in Critical Theory
Director: Dr Sarah Wood
Location: Canterbury
Attendance: One year full-time, two years part-time
Entry requirements: A first or upper second class degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). Click here for further information on English language requirements for non-native speakers of English.
Assessment: Assessment is by a 5-6,000-word essay for each module, and a 12-15,000-word dissertation
Course outline
The MA in Critical Theory offers a core course that surveys a wide range of modern theoretical approaches, and a range of taught options covering postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic theory, modern approaches to writing and sexuality, and the chance to work in depth on a single key theoretical text and the writings it refers to. If you are interested in writing, reading, language, rebellion, the self, sexuality and discovering more about the relations between literature and philosophy, then this programme may be for you.
Course Structure
Faculty and School Research Methods Programmes, FR866 plus two or more of the following modules (subject to approval and availability) and a theory-based dissertation.
Core module
- FR866: Literature and Theory (Core Module)
Other available modules
- EN897: Advanced Critical Reading
- EN852: Colonial & Postcolonial Discourses
- CP805: European Modernism: Sexual and Textual Deviance (a Comparative Literature module)
- CP80: Psychoanalysis and Literature (a Comparative Literature module)