MA Philosophy & Literature

at University College Dublin

Core Module
 

• Dissertation

  PHIL40030
   

• Philosophy & Literature

  PHIL40410

Optional Modules
 

• Gender and Sexuality in Theory and Representation

  ENG40940
   

• World-Systems,World-Literature

  ENG41570
   

• Queer Frictions: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Literature & Culture

  ENG41860
   

• Un/Settling Global Literatures

  ENG42080
   

• German literature and 19th-/20th-century opera: Translation/transformation from page to opera stage

  GER40080
   

• Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

  PHIL40250
   

• The Good Society

  PHIL40420
   

• The Cultural Mind

  PHIL40960
   

• Consciousness, Agency & the Self

  PHIL40970
   

• John Henry Newman – a philosophical prespective

  PHIL41240
   

• Feminist & Gender Theory

  PHIL41280
   

• Topics in Continental Philos

  PHIL41320
   

• Ethics in Public Life

  PHIL41510
   

• Problems from Kant

  PHIL41570
   

• Moral Agency

  PHIL41660
   

• Social and Political Theory: Problems in Methods

  PHIL41800
   

• Critique, Destruction & Deconstruction

  PHIL41810
   

• Philosophy of Life Writing

  PHIL41820
   

• Introduction to Cultural Theory

  SLL40230
   

• Surrealism in Spain

  SPAN40310
   

• Identity, Sex & Sexuality in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Culture.

  SPAN40330

Applicants must present an undergraduate degree in either Philosophy or a Literature. If the undergraduate degree is in literature, you should have at least two courses in literary theory, each with a grade of at least B- (60%). An overall grade of B- (60%) in your undergraduate degree (to be confirmed by a transcript); two academic letters of reference; a sample of philosophical or literary-theoretical writing, such as an undergraduate essay.
 

• Applicants whose first language is not English must also demonstrate English language proficiency of IELTS 6.5 (no band less than 6.0 in each element), or equivalent.

These are the minimum entry requirements – additional criteria may be requested for some programmes 

Non-EU fees for academic year 2022/23 are:

€ 20,500

It is very difficult to generalise about the career paths of our MA graduates. A small number continue into PhD programmes both at UCD and abroad. Others have gone into journalism, the civil service, arts management, secondary school teaching, and the corporate world.