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Programmes
The MA programmes that offer a first term in Canterbury and second term in Paris are listed below. See the course summaries under the programme headings headings below.
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|Comparative Literature MA
The modules available in Comparative Literature during the first term, spent in Canterbury, explore themes and major figures in European literature and aesthetics from the 18th century to the present, and interactions between European literatures, in such genres as autobiography, drama and the fantastic, all studied in English.
In Paris, during the second term, see module information opposite.
Assessment for each module is by a 5,000-word essay.
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French and Comparative Literature MA
This programme allows students to combine one module from Comparative Literature with one module from Modern French Studies (requiring proficiency in French) during their first term, spent in Canterbury.
In Paris, during the second term, see module information opposite.
Assessment for each module is by a 5,000-word essay.
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Creative Writing MA
The MA in Creative Writing at Kent offers you the opportunity to study fiction and poetry (exclusively or together) along with new optional modules in translation and writing and the environment. Designed with serious, ambitious writers in mind, our programme uses seminars, tutorials, workshops, and precise editing to enable you to take control of your own work and write exciting, contemporary material.
In Paris, during the second term, see module information opposite.
Assessment for each module is by a 5,000-word essay.
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Modern French Studies MA
The modules available on the Modern French Studies pathway during the first term, spent in Canterbury, address the often complex relationship between texts and images. They require proficiency in French and are designed for students with interests that may include literature, art, philosophy and aesthetics. These modules provide a unique opportunity to study the ways in which the literary, visual and theoretical intersect.
In Paris, during the second term, see module information opposite.
Assessment for each module is by a 5,000-word essay.
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Modern History MA
The MA in Modern History offers a wonderful opportunity to explore specific areas of British, European and American history across the period from c. 1500 to 2000, and to do so in two contrasting and stimulating academic environments – Canterbury and Paris.
During the first term in Canterbury students take a core course, which is a vital grounding in historical research and methods, and one other module from the wide range available.
In the second term in Paris, students take ‘Entente Cordiale – Myth or Reality?’, which explores Anglo-French perceptions of each other in the 19th and 20th centuries, and a second option, chosen from other available modules.
During the Summer term and vacation, students research and write their dissertation, a substantial scholarly investigation which draws on one of the history options they will have studied.
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Postcolonial Studies MA
The Kent at Paris MA in Postcolonial Studies offers you the opportunity to benefit from the facilities and expertise developed over many years in Canterbury while also spending the spring term of your MA year studying postcolonial writing in Paris.
During the autumn term your core module, Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses, provides an introduction to the analysis of colonial discourse and to the most significant strands of postcolonial theory. Topics covered also include the role that culture plays in anti-colonial struggles and the role of the postcolonial intellectual in the contemporary world. Recommended reading for the module includes works by Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak.
During the Spring term, spent in Paris, you develop your studies to include the cultural production of exiles, with particular focus on the role of Paris as a place of refuge and as a focus for multi-cultural encounters and creativity. Works studied may include texts by North American, Latin American and North African writers living in Paris, with focus on their diverse representations of the city and how the experiences of diaspora and exile inform and shape their writing.
In Paris you may also study interactions between the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Lusophone spheres of postcolonial cultures, discussing important and representative works of literature and such topics as language, identity, gender and nationhood.
You then complete your one-year MA by writing a dissertation on an aspect of postcolonial studies that you will defined in consultation with an appropriate tutor. All texts and teaching materials are in English, so this programme offers you a rare opportunity to spend part of your MA year living and studying in Paris without necessarily knowing any French. Leading to a prestigious postgraduate qualification, this programme also provides an intellectually stimulating experience that is designed to be both challenging and extremely enjoyable.
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English and American Literature MA
On the English and American Literature programme the modules available during the first term in Canterbury offer a wide range of choices. This allows you to follow interests you may have in modern American, postcolonial, Victorian or other areas of literary culture. The modules are designed for students who want to explore canonical and new materials in literature and theory.
The School of English has a strong international perspective, apparent both in the background of its staff and in the diversity of their teaching and research interests. Their expertise ranges from the medieval to the postmodern, including British, American and Irish literature, postcolonial writing, 18th-century studies, Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, Victorian studies, modern poetry, critical theory, and cultural history.
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Film MA
The Kent at Paris MA in Film provides a unique opportunity to study cinema in both Canterbury and Paris, working with tutors who are internationally recognised for their publications and expertise across a spectrum of popular and experimental European, American and World cinemas.
You spend the autumn and spring terms viewing and discussing films in modules that are designed to address a range of practical and theoretical issues, including authorship, genre, stardom, style, modernity, nationalism and internationalism. Seminars will also cover debates in philosophy and film theory on the nature of filmic representation and its relationship to language, art, emotion, and consciousness.
The spring term in Paris will allow you to focus more on French cinema and its context, and to consider the impact of French critics and filmmakers on the wider discipline of Film Studies. In the summer term you will complete your one-year MA by writing a dissertation of up to 15,000 words on a topic agreed with tutors.
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I am thrilled that I have been given a chance to gain a second language whilst studying and living in one of the most exciting cities in the world.
I shocked myself with how easily I adapted to a new country and the challenges that came with it, and have had so much fun taking part in the Paris Programme.
Paris modules
During the first term, you take two 30-credit taught-course modules from your chosen MA pathway. You then spend the second term in Paris, studying two modules from a choice which varies from year to year and includes:
- Paris: Reality and Representation
- Film and Modernity
- Entente Cordiale - Myth or Reality
- Writing in Residence: Paris
- England and France: Two Kingdoms, Two Images, c. 1500-1700
- Diaspora and Exile
Taught in English, these modules focus on aspects of modern Franco-British history and English, American, European and post-colonial literature, cinema and culture. All Paris modules are available to all Kent at Paris students, no matter what your MA subject.
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This means that during the spring term you are free to construct your own programme from across the range of modules available, making it as focussed or as inter-disciplinary as you like.You have plenty of time during the autumn term to make informed decisions about your programme of studies in Paris.
All the spring-term modules have been designed to be specifically relevant to your experience of living and studying in Paris.You are encouraged to make full use of the city’s cultural resources and to integrate these into your studies,allowing you, if you wish, to explore connections between history, literature, the visual arts and other media.
As the design, teaching and assessment of all modules is validated by the University of Kent, these MA programmes are underpinned by a coherent intellectual and academic strategy. This allows you to study for your MA in two different countries while still remaining completely confident that there will be consistency in academic content and assessment criteria throughout the year. You will experience a seamless transition between the complementary sections of your MA programme.