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Study Details: MA/PGDip/PGCert 1 year full time
2 years part time
Our MA Popular Literature and Culture will allow you to understand the ways in which political, economic, and cultural forces shape, and are in turn shaped by, popular culture. You will learn why particular works of popular culture become popular in any given contextual moment.
Click here to watch a short video of two current students talking about the course.
This MA is the first in the country to take a period-based, interdisciplinary approach to popular literary and cultural forms. The programme spans a number of diverse disciplines such as English literature, cultural studies, film and television studies, race studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, environmental studies, and philosophy, delving into different time periods and exploring thematic topics within them. Watch this short film of Dr Ian Kinane, who runs the course, talking about this master’s programme.
The programme encompasses multiple periods of popular culture, and you will be taught by staff from across the disciplines, whose expertise lies not only in the form being taught but also the textual culture of that specific period. All of the staff members who will teach you are active researchers in their field and will use that research to inform their teaching, offering you innovative modules that are fresh, exciting, and contemporary.
You will also benefit from specialist masterclasses with authors of popular fiction – such as Anthony Horowitz, one of our Honorary Professors – and you will be welcomed into a thriving and social academic community at Roehampton, home to the International Journal of James Bond Studies and the Popular Literature and Culture Research Centre.
Course content
You will take the core module Reading Popular Culture, which will give you insight into the critical development of the concept of “the popular” as a theoretical field.
Across the programme, you will have the opportunity to examine the relationship between different forms of media, text, and popular culture from a number of periods. You will explore the role and responsibilities of popular culture within society, as well as its relationship to environmental and ecological discourses and to discourses of race, gender, and sexuality.
You should usually hold a second-class honours degree (certain programmes may require a 2:1) from a recognised British or overseas university. Advice on recognition can be obtained from the Admissions Office. Non-graduates with appropriate professional qualifications will be considered on an individual basis by Programme Conveners; contact details can be found on the individual programme page. Applicants will be expected to apply and register for the full master’s award. Those with a third-class honours degree are encouraged to complete an application as we will consider an applicant’s wider circumstances in making a decision on an application. Please contact admissions@roehampton.ac.uk if you have any questions.
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