English MA Module Directory
Welcome to the online module directory for MA programmes in the Department of English, for the academic year 2011-12. New and continuing students can use this information to select module options, which should be recorded on the relevant Module Choice Form and returned to Patricia Hamilton, the Department's Taught Postgraduate Programmes Administrator, no later than Friday 19 August 2011.
The list below is organised by MA programme, and includes core modules (both assessed and unassessed). You can also view this list using a timetable view. Outline programme specifications are noted below.
- MA in English Literature
- MA/MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- MA in Writing and Society, 1700-1820
- MA in Writing in the Modern Age
Please note that in addition to the taught components detailed here, all Masters programmes in the Department require students to complete a dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words.
The Department of Drama's MA Module Directory is also available now.
MA in English Literature
In addition to the two compulsory modules indicated below, students must take three further assessed modules from across the Masters programmes (with the exception of RESM003). Only two of these selections may be taken from the choices under MA Writing in the Modern Age.
- ENLM001, The Production of Texts in Context (assessed core module)
- WASM018, Resources for Research (unassessed core module)
Download Module Choice Form for this programme
MA/MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
MA in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: All students take the two assessed modules RENM033 and RENM034, and the unassessed modules ESH7701, RENM028, and RESM007. Students must select two other modules (excluding RESM003). One of these additional modules may be selected from the choices under any of the other programmes.
MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: All students take the assessed double-module RESM003, and the unassessed modules ESH7701, RENM028, and RESM007. Students must select two other modules (excluding RENM033 and RENM034). One of these additional modules may be selected from the choices under any of the other programmes.
- ESH7301, London Spaces from FitzStephen to Stow
- ESH7701, Renaissance Archival Skills (unassessed core module for MA students)
- RENM021, Public and Private Cultures in Renaissance England
- RENM028, Latin for Renaissance Students (unassessed core module for MA and MRes students)
- RENM030, Reading Shakespeare Historically
- RENM033, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: Research Preparation (assessed core module for MA students)
- RENM034, The Renaissance in Context (assessed core module for MA students)
- RESM001, Writing Lives from Letters: the Archive and the Production of Historical Biographies
- RESM003, Textual Scholarship (assessed core module for MRes students)
- RESM007, IT Skills for Graduate Research (unassessed core module for MA and MRes students)
Download Module Choice Form for MA programme
Download Module Choice Form for MRes programme
MA in Writing and Society, 1700-1820
All students take the two unassessed modules WASM017, and WASM018. Students must also choose four assessed modules; one of these additional modules may be selected from the choices under any of the other programmes.
- ESH7101, Mapping the Nation, 1707-1801
- WASM003, Primitivism and Progress
- WASM017, London Panoramas: Research, Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century (unassessed core module)
- WASM018, Resources for Research (unassessed core module)
- WASM019, Sociability: Literature and the City 1660-1780
- WASM022, Metro-Intellectuals: Women Writing in the City in the Romantic Period
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MA in Writing in the Modern Age
All students take the assessed module LCMM045, and the unassessed modules WASM018 and LCMM050. Students must also choose three additional assessed modules. One of these additional modules may be selected from the choices under any of the other programmes.
- ESH7200, The Forms of Modernism
- ESH7201, African Literary and Textual Cultures
- ESH7302, James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
- LCMM015, Aestheticism and Fin de Siècle Literature
- LCMM041, The Cultural Legacy of the Great War
- LCMM042, Freud and Proust
- LCMM044, Postcolonialism, Language and Identity
- LCMM045, Modernism and After (assessed core module)
- LCMM048, Modernism and Ireland
- LCMM050, Researching Modern Culture (unassessed core module)
- LCMM051, Imagining the Modern Caribbean
- LCMM052, Writing the East End
- WASM018, Resources for Research (unassessed core module)
Download Module Choice Form for this programme