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MA in English and American Literature
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Director: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Entry requirements: A first or upper second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent).
English Language Proficiency for non-native speakers of English
Course requirements: Faculty and School Research Methods Programmes, four of the following modules and a dissertation or editorial project.
NEW in 2009/10: the MA in English and American Literature can be studied as part of the newly launched University of Kent Paris MA.
Course requirements: Faculty and School Research Methods Programmes, four modules(subject to availability of places) and a dissertation or editorial project. You should not take more than 2 modules from any one of the other two separate literature MA programmes: MA Postcolonial Studies (PCS), and MA Dickens and Victorian Culture (DVC). One of your four modules can come from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities (again, subject to availability of places). The final part of the degree is the dissertation or editing project.
The MA in English is designed for students who want to explore a significant and varied body of literature. It examines literature spanning a broad range of history and cultures, looking at it in relation to the way the study of English has modified, shifted and expanded in recent decades. It is particularly appropriate if you have a wide range of literary interests and want a grounding in an extensive body of material relating to different forms of English. But within this programme you may also choose to take pathways, so as to concentrate your studies in certain specific areas (especially if you are thinking of going on to a research degree in a particular field). An Eighteenth-century Studies pathway, for example, might be constituted by taking the two specialist eighteenth-century modules, 'Extremes of Feeling: Literature and Empire in the Eighteenth Century' and 'Hacks, Dunces and Scribblers'; plus 2 other modules to be chosen from elsewhere in the English MA programme; plus a Dissertation based in the area of eighteenth-century studies.