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Degree Programme Table: English Literature: United States Literature - Cultural Values from Revolution to Empire (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCENLUS1P)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: The following is the recommended programme structure for the first year of study. However, it is possible to be flexible; please contact your Programme Director to finalise your particular programme of study.

    Please note that all option courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ENLI11173 Enlightenment to Entropy: Writing the American Republic from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Adams Semester 1 20
    CLLC11003 Research Skills and Methods Semester 1 20
    ENLI11172 New Beginnings to the End of Days: Writing the American Republic from Reconstruction to 9/11 Semester 2 20
    ENLI11125 Research Methods and Problems in English Literature Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 0 set(s) of course options with the following rules.




    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Two 20 credit option courses must be taken in total, one in semester 1, the other in semester 2.

    * The option courses listed are recommendations although students are welcome to take 20 credits of other level 11 courses. These enrolments should be discussed with your Personal Tutor or Programme Director.

    Please note that all option courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ENLI11105 MSc English Literature: United States Literature Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 1
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ENLI11139    Modernism and Empire   20  
    ENLI11023    Black Atlantic   20  
    ENLI11217    Postmodernism: Who Needs it? (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11101    Critical Theory: Issues and Debates   20  
    ENLI11134    Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience   20  
    ENLI11181    Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics   20  

    Notes:These options are Postgraduate ONLY
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 1
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ENLI11212    Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11216    Victorian Transatlanticism (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11203    Outback, Outlaws and Outcasts: Antipodean literature and (un)settlement (Level 11)   20  
    ENLI11137    Neo-imperialisms   20  
    ENLI11143    Queering Fictions in the Twentieth Century   20  
    ENLI11211    Decolonization and the Novel (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11214    Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11190    Literature and the Great War (Level 11)   20  
    ENLI11066    Writing the Body Politic   20  

    Notes:These options are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level
     

    AND   


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 2
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ENLI11200    Exploring the Novel   20  
    ENLI11102    Modernism before the War   20  
    ENLI11182    Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond   20  
    ENLI11209    Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness (PG Version)   20  

    Notes:These options are Postgraduate ONLY
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 2
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ENLI11038    Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature   20  
    ENLI11007    Postcolonial Writing   20  
    ENLI11146    The American Novel, 1920-1960   20  
    ENLI11208    Cities of Literature: Metropolitan Modernities (PG Version)   20  
    ENLI11158    Black American Fiction   20  
    ENLI11022    Contemporary American Fiction   20  
    ENLI11138    Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing   20  
    ENLI11230    The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)   20  

    Notes:These options are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level
     



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