Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures
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 Colonial and Postcolonial 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 Contemporary Postcolonial Women’s Writing; Postcolonial Locations (an introductory course recommended to newcomers to this field of study); Race and Colonialism in Early Modern English Literature; Sexuality and Identity in 20th-Century Postcolonial Cultures; The Migrant Writer: Postcolonialism and Creativity; and Writing the New South Africa.
Summer term and vacation: supervised and independent 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.