2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Writing Identities: Critical and Creative Practices
| Programme code: | MA-ENG/WI | UCAS code: | |
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| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Jay Prosser | Contact address: | J.D.Prosser@leeds.ac.uk |
This programme is available to UK and EU applicants for part time study (over 2 academic years). Please contact pgtenglish@leeds.ac.uk for further information.
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Good honours degree (First or 2:i or its equivalent) in English Literature, or a degree scheme including English Literature, or in a related subject.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of English
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of English
Programme specification:
In a world in which borders between public and private as well as between places are increasingly transgressed, identities are becoming more prominent, prolific, variegated, travelled, mixed – and less transparent. As identities complicate in these ways, so do modes for writing identities proliferate, innovate, and reward our investigation. The MA in Writing Identities focuses on the multiform and fascinating subject of identities, with a view to developing students’ critical skills in understanding identities, and students’ creative skills in giving identities life. Critical writing, from psychoanalysis to postcolonialism, and creative writing, from autobiographical confession and family memoir to poetry of place, have in common a concern with writing identities, as do newer forms of creative writing such as ‘faction’, ‘creative nonfiction’ and blogging. Centring on this extensive concern, the MA programme forms a bridge between registers typically kept apart, drawing out the critical aspects of creative writing and the creative dimensions of critical writing.
Students write a research project / dissertation on a subject of their choice with the assistance of specialist supervision and the research resources of the University's Brotherton Library.
This distinctive programme allows students to explore further areas which may not have figured significantly in their undergraduate programme. It affords an excellent platform for work at doctoral level.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates willl be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| ENGL5841M | Studying English: Research Methods | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5842M | Research Project | 60 credits | 1 Feb to 30 Sep | |
| ENGL5845M | Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study two optional modules (60 credits) at least one of which must be specific to this programme. A maximum of one module (30 credits) can be taken from outside of the programme or outside of the School.
| ENGL5346M | So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5831M | Feeling Time | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5833M | The Magic of Mimesis | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5846M | Literature and the Politics of Language | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5847M | War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that this is an indicative module list. A different selection of modules is offered each year.
Elective modules:
Candidates may take up to 30 credits in approved modules outside the School of English.
Last updated: 26/04/2017
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