London,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
MA Contemporary Literature and Culture in London United Kingdom | Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London
|
London United Kingdom
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Taught)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
18,030
(c. USD24,126.84)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
Our MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) program allows you to focus on 21st-century literary works and cultural movements while exploring significant developments in literature and theory from recent decades.
Drawing from our cutting-edge research in modern literary and cultural studies, this course enables you to investigate:
how new technologies influence storytelling techniques
the artistic, spatial, and political dimensions of writing in our interconnected global society
literature's position among various digital, visual, and multimedia formats.
You'll gain specialized knowledge in areas including: migration stories and refugee cinema, precarious living narratives and epidemic-related fiction, anti-gentrification publications and grassroots protest art, non-human perspectives, post-gender feminist thought, genre intersections between sci-fi, horror and mainstream fiction, transgender representation in visual media, African American poetic traditions and performance art, modern black cultural expressions.
Start Date: September 2024 Duration: One year
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 7.0
Qualification Requirements
Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a secondclass honours degree 22 or above from a UK university or an equivalent international qualification Your first degree does not have to be in English Literature
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications andor relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners
On your application form please list all your relevant qualifications and experience including those you expect to achieve
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System IELTS Academic Test score of 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in each of the subtests
TOEFL IBT - Standard requirement - 79 (reading - 18, writing - 23, listening - 19, speaking - 19)
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications andor relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners
On your application form please list all your relevant qualifications and experience including those you expect to achieve
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System IELTS Academic Test score of 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in each of the subtests
TOEFL IBT - Standard requirement - 79 (reading - 18, writing - 23, listening - 19, speaking - 19)
Tuition
GBP
18,030