Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought
MA
Admissions requirements
An upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a subject relevant to the chosen Masters degree.
The School of English offers one of the most diverse sets of English programmes in the UK. They are designed to allow you to specialise in cutting-edge approaches to literary study. To choose the programme best suited to you, look carefully at the full range of programmes described in detail.
Full-time programmes can also be followed part time over two years, with taught seminars in the autumn and spring terms.
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Programme description
This MA is associated with the Centre for Modernist Studies.
Programme structure
Each programme consists of four one-term courses chosen from a range of options, and a dissertation. Courses are taught as weekly seminars, two in the autumn term and two in the spring term, and it is normally possible to choose up to two of these courses from another MA programme.
Autumn and spring terms: you take four options from Anglo-American Modernism: Poetry and Poetics; Aspects of 20th-Century Drama; Contemporary Writing I; Contemporary Writing II; Modern European Lyric; Modern European Theatre; Modernist/Postmodernist Fiction 1900-1995; Postmodernity and Fiction; Reading and Time: The Long Modernist Novel; Sexuality and Identity in 20th-Century Postcolonial Cultures; Theories of Representation: Memories of the Holocaust; The Photograph in Modernism; Theorising Modernism: The Avant-Garde in Literature and Film; and Victorian Fin de Siècle.
Summer term and vacation: supervised work on the MA dissertation.
Funding
English at Sussex has been successful in attracting quota funding via the AHRC Block Grant Partnership Scheme. Refer to the Funding section for more information.
Assessment
You are assessed by four 5,000-word term papers and a dissertation of up to 20,000 words.