Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class Honours degree or professional experience in the area of study
Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Programme Leader: Dr Liam Connell
Telephone +44 (0) 1962 827024
Email Liam.Connell@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 7.0 (including 7.0 in academic writing) or a TOEFL score of 600 (paper-based) or 250 (computer-based) or equivalent
Start dates: September and January
Application process: UKPASS (full-time applicants only) or Direct Entry Application Form (part-time applicants only)
All students take a compulsory module in Research and Employability Skills. This module develops the necessary skills to complete the independent study element of the programme. For students who wish to develop this aspect of postgraduate work, there is an optional module in English Studies and Employability. Guided by academic staff, students complete an independent portfolio detailing how a specific piece of literary study connects to other kinds of work such as publicity, marketing and information management.
Students complete a range of subject modules that focus upon the different ways that specific concepts or ideas such as Jewishness, disability or politics are expressed through a range of literary texts. Students also consider how the idea of literariness influences, and is altered by, our consideration of specific themes or ideas.
• The Apocalypse in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
• English Studies and Employability
• Jewishness in Contemporary British Literature
• Literature and Politics
• Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• The Twenty-First Century: The First Decade
• Theorising the World
• Twenty-First-Century Gothic
• Women, Text and Publishing in the Eighteenth Century
• Writing and Disability
The programme is taught by and offers students the opportunity to work alongside scholars interested in the contemporary vitality of literature within the UK and across cultures. Most classes are organised around small-class discussion and students are expected to participate in and lead classroom discussion.
Most modules are assessed via a single 5,000-word essay but students are also required to present their own work in a verbal form to small groups.
Dissertation
Students complete a dissertation of 15,000 to 20,000 words in a research area of their choice with support from a tutor.
The programme aims to act as a stepping stone to academic research but also aims to develop students’ writing skills and to enhance their employability in educational and professional contexts.The programme develops subject-specific skills which are relevant in a wider range of professional careers.