Caribbean Studies: Literatures The University of the West Indies

Overview

The Caribbean Studies: Literatures program offered by The University of the West Indies will therefore feature the following:

• A genuinely Caribbean-wide scope: You’ll no longer study Caribbean Literature or Theatre, for example, in exclusively French, Spanish or English, but will read texts - in translation or in the original – from all three literatures. Linkages with Caribbean diasporas and with other regions will be an integral component.

• A truly Interdisciplinary approach: Completely new courses, focusing on Visual Culture (painting, cinema, advertising, etc), Creative Writing.  Caribbean Thought (philosophical and rhetorical writings), Diasporic Literature, Language and Media, Teaching Literature or Languages in the Caribbean classroom, and so on. These courses are designed to open up new ways of looking at familiar territory and to stimulate you to explore and experiment. In turn, this means:

• Co-teaching of courses: Though each course will have a clearly identifiable primary lecturer, you’ll be exposed to different approaches and varied expertise through modules taught by other colleagues from in the Department and beyond.

Graduates with M.A. in Caribbean Studies: Literatures from The University of the West Indies will gain:

• critical and creative skills

• humanistic development 

• analyze critically, imaginatively and constructively.

Careers

• Advertising

• Journalism

• The cultural and creative industries

• Teaching

• Developmental and public service agencies