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    MA 1 year full-time 2 years part-time – Online

Course Description

Our online MA in Literature and Culture gives you the opportunity to explore innovative and diverse texts and their many different contexts – historical, social, and political. You will engage with themes at the forefront of contemporary culture, including identity, history, otherness and the environment.

This unique course is specifically designed to develop students’ critical understanding of literature and related forms of cultural expression (film, music, and the visual arts) within contemporary debates about our place in the world.

Online learning offers you the benefits of flexible opportunities to hone your critical and analytical skills with plenty of support from our research-active academic staff. You’ll also gain advanced research skills and have the opportunity to pursue your own research interests via a 13,000-word dissertation on a topic of your choice.

In addition to the dissertation and two six-week modules that support your research skills, you will take three twelve-week modules as part of your MA programme.

Entry Requirements

  • We normally require at least an upper second class Honours (or equivalent) degree with a significant element (at least 50%) of Literature. Graduates with an Honours Degree in any discipline who have otherwise demonstrated potential to succeed at postgraduate level in Literature will also be considered.
  • Two references, with at least one academic.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

The University of Hertfordshire offer a range of tuition fee discounts and non-repayable scholarships to support our postgraduate students, visit website to find out more.

Student Destinations

The advanced research skills you’ll gain on this MA, alongside transferable intellectual and personal skills, are of value in a wide range of careers, including teaching, publishing, the arts and media. Many of our graduates go on to higher levels of study, engaging in PhD research in their chosen fields.

MA graduates Daisy Butcher and Jennifer Cameron are now PhD students of literature at Herts, while MA graduate Olivia Steen has worked on the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and is now a visiting lecturer in Creative Arts with a new PhD project.

MA graduate Sam Cooper went on to take a PhD at Nottingham Trent University, where he now teaches and publishes, while Amelia Eikli started her own publishing house and is a writer and blogger.

Module Details

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