Universities United Kingdom University of Kent Courses Postcolonial Studies MA

Postcolonial Studies MA
at University of Kent

Kent, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 19,300
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5 TOEFL: 87

Program Overview

Develop your own expertise in the relationship between politics, culture, and imperialism, whilst exploring the urgency and vibrancy of postcolonial writing. Topics may include postcolonial responses to the climate emergency, global capitalism, migration and diaspora. If you have never studied postcolonial literature before, or if you wish to expand your existing reading, our modules are dedicated to both canonical works and the very latest developments in the field.

The University of Kent was one of the first universities to establish postcolonial literary studies in the UK and has continued to play a significant part in the development of the field with an incredible national and international reputation. Among the teachers involved in the programme are Bashir Abu-Manneh, Bahriye Kemal, Kaori Nagai, Maria Ridda and Matthew Whittle (see staff research interests for further details).

Course Content
You take a compulsory module, at least one more specialist Postcolonial module and two other modules (four in total) during the autumn and spring terms. You are also expected to attend the Faculty and School Research Methods Programmes.

You then write the dissertation or editorial project between the start of the summer term and the end of August.

Modules
The list below should be considered indicative of the types of modules available, which may vary from year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation.

Compulsory modules currently include
- ENGL8520 - Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses (30 credits)
- ENGL9982 - Advanced Literary Research (2 credits)
Optional modules may include
- ENGL8180 - American Modernism, 1890-1940 (30 credits)
- ENGL8450 - Global Victorians (30 credits)
- ENGL8650 - Post-45: American Literature and Culture in the Cold War Era (30 credits)
- ENGL8660 - Transatlantic Literature and Culture 1880-1920 (30 credits)
- ENGL8680 - Queer Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Sex and Gender (30 credits)
- ENGL8910 - Fiction 1 (30 credits)
- ENGL8920 - Poetry 1 (30 credits)
- ENGL8930 - Fiction 2 (30 credits)
- ENGL8940 - Poetry 2 (30 credits)
- ENGL9000 - Illness and Disability in American Culture (30 credits)
- ENGL9090 - Medical Humanities: An Introduction (30 credits)
- ENGL9100 - Non-fiction:People (30 credits)
- ENGL9160 - Postcolonial Writing and the Environment (30 credits)
- ENGL9220 - Animal Humanities: Evolution to Extinction (30 credits)
- Compulsory modules currently include
- ENGL9980 - Dissertation:GPMS (60 credits)
Entry Requirement
For entry to a Kent postgraduate degree programme (Master's), Indian students typically need to have completed a three or four-year undergraduate degree (Honours Bachelor degree or Professional degree) at an accredited university or college. General Bachelor degrees may sometimes be considered. Exact requirements will depend on the postgraduate degree you are applying for and the institution you have studied at.
For programmes that require a 2:1 we usually ask for a First Class degree, a final CGPA of 6.0/10, or 60%. Students from top institutions may be considered with a high Second Class degree, a final CGPA of 5.5/10, or 55%. For programmes that require a 2:2 we usually ask for a high Second Class degree, a final CGPA of 5.5/10, or 55%.

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£19300 per year

Career Prospect

Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching; as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.

Cost Of Studying At University of Kent

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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Postcolonial Studies MA at University of Kent