2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Postcolonial Studies

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of English

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Programme specification:

This Masters degree allows exploration of a wide range of Anglophone postcolonial literary and cultural endeavours from across the globe, engage with the latest issues and debates in postcolonial studies, and analyse the field’s conceptual and theoretical resources. Our programme is designed so that students can discover and develop the scope and concerns which characterise postcolonial studies today, often by pursuing dedicated option modules which variously investigate (for example) matters of indigeneity, race, multiculturalism, decolonisation, mental well-being, animism, decolonisation, the environment, and more besides, and across a wide range of postcolonial contexts (such as Africa, the South Pacific, multicultural Britain, etc.). In addition, students conceive, research, and write an extended dissertation on any postcolonial concerns of their choice (ie: specific writers, cultural forms, conceptual debates, particular locations). As well equipping students with an in-depth knowledge of postcolonial studies, our programme develops their cognisance of and literacy in postcolonial cultures, and also equips them with a wide range of high-level transferable skills, not least as regards communication and independent critical thinking.

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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In order to complete the programme, students must do the following:
• Study the programme’s core module, ‘Postcolonial Encounters’.
• Study at least one MA option module from those listed below in ‘Basket 2’, and no more than two MA modules from the rest of the School of English’s provision of MA options. Students may of course choose all three option modules from the ones listed in Basket 2
• Complete a research project on a topic germane to postcolonial studies.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
Basket 1:

Optional modules:

All modules listed in Baskets 2,3 and 4 are indicative research-led option modules and subject to staff availability.

Candidates must ensure that their 30 credit modules chosen from Baskets 2, 3 and 4 are evenly distributed across the academic year, choosing 2 in Semester 1 and 2 in Semester 2.

Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 30 credits from Basket 2:
Basket 2:

Depending on the number of modules selected from Basket 2, candidates may select a further one or two modules from Baskets 3 and 4, up to a maximum of 180 credits overall across the programme.
Candidates must ensure that their 30 credit option modules are evenly distributed across the academic year, choosing 2 in Semester 1 and 2 in Semester 2.
Basket 3:

Basket 4:

Students may choose option modules from the following list of Medieval Studies modules if they wish (subject to availability):

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