Overview
Under the guidance of leading scholars in their fields, students will encounter some of the most influential contemporary critical and theoretical models currently being applied to the notions of modernity and modernisation, and apply the ideas raised by these theories to a rich variety of works from the Romantic, Victorian, and modernist periods, and the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Learning outcomes
Print English - Modernities: American and British Literature and Film MA from the University College Cork programme involves a combination of seminars, consultation, presentations and directed study as well as associated reading. You will carry out independent research for your dissertation in close consultation with your supervisor.
Career
This course will provide you with an advanced understanding of an important period in literary and cultural history and knowledge of the theoretical tools required fully to understand this period. It will also equip you with a range of research skills designed to prepare you to present academic research in a variety of forms to a professional standard.
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Courses include:
- Contemporary Literary Research: Skills, Methods and Strategies
- Theories of Modernity
- Literary and Cultural Modernisms
- Postmodernism
- Romanticism and Modernity
- Victorian Modernities
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Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Literature American and Australasian studies British Studies View 17 other Masters in British Studies in IrelandExplore more key information
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Academic requirements
English requirements
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- To be considered for admission to an MA programme within the School of English, an applicant will normally possess a primary degree result of Second Class Honours Grade I in a primary honours degree (NFQ, Level 8) or higher or equivalent qualification in English or a cognate subject. All candidates must satisfy a Selection Committee who may request applicants to provide letters of reference.
- For North American students a cumulative GPA of at least 3.3 is expected.
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16700 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 16700 EUR per year during 12 months. -
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6130 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6130 EUR per year during 12 months.
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