Entry requirements

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a subject relevant to the Masters degree

Months of entry

September

Course content

This MA reflects the diverse and wide-ranging research and teaching interests of the School of English. The MA’s design allows you either to focus your study on a specific period or concept of literature, or to engage broadly with writing and cultural and theoretical ideas across a wide historic range. You can combine specialist study in literature written before 1900, contemporary theoretical inquiry, and interdisciplinary investigations into literature and visual culture or literature and history according to your particular interests.

Core modules engage with current theoretical ideas and conceptual methods that underpin research in literature and help equip you for further study and research inside and outside academia.

Course structure

We continue to develop and update our modules for 2017 entry to ensure you have the best student experience. In addition to the course structure below, you may find it helpful to refer to the Modules list. Modules may be subject to change.

Autumn term: you combine methodological and theoretical investigations into literature in a core module with one specialist option.

Spring term: you take two options allowing you either to focus more intently on a specific period, interdisciplinary or theoretical topic, or choose more broadly from modules that may include Voices in the Archives: Writing from History • Image and Text 1780-1880 • The Renaissance Body • Versions of Realism: Art, Film, Literature, Theory • The History of Domesticity: Literature, Public and Private 1700-1800 • New Configurations in Critical Theory • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640 (with the Globe Theatre, London) • Culture and Intellect in the Nineteenth Century; • Race and Colonialism in
Early Modern English Literature.

Summer term: supervised work on the MA dissertation.

Information for international students

Please visit: International qualifications for Masters courses or Fees and Scholarships.

Fees and funding

UK students

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International students

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Please visit our website for latest fees information: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/masters/2017/english/english-literature-culture-and-theory-ma

The University of Sussex aims to attract the most talented students to postgraduate study. For full details of our scholarships please visit: Masters Scholarships

Qualification and course duration

MA

part time

24 months

full time

12 months

Assessment

Assessment	What kind of work will I be doing? (proportionally)
Written coursework / continuous assessment	66
Dissertation	34 (15000 words)

Course contact details

Name: Student Recruitment Services
Email: englishpg@sussex.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1273 678468

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