MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture

at University of Manchester

Course unit details

You will undertake units totalling 180 credits. Core and optional units combine to make 120 credits, with the remaining 60 credits allocated to the dissertation.

Course unit list

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
 

Title

• Dissertation (MA)
• Gender, Sexuality and Culture
• The AIDS Crisis: American Cultural Representation
• Reading the Contemporary
• Queer Cinema and Beyond
• Modernisms
• Postcolonial Literatures, Genres and Theories
• Before `Sexuality': Bodies, Desires and Discourses, 1660-1900
• Key Issues in Literary and Critical Theory
• Contemporary Fiction

Academic entry qualification overview

• We normally expect students to have a First or Upper Second class honours degree or its overseas equivalent in a humanities-based subject area.
   

English language

• An overall grade of IELTS 7.0 with 7.0 in writing and no skill below 6.5 is required or 100+ in the TOEFL iBT with a minimum writing score of 25 and no skill below 22.

• MA (full-time)
  
  UK students (per annum): £10,500
  
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £21,000

Whether you're presently employed, are looking for inspiring new career opportunities by furthering your knowledge, are passionate about research, or simply wish to explore a subject you adore in much greater detail, our MA will help you to develop a wealth of transferable skills.
 

Our graduates have gone on to take up a diverse range of careers in both the public and private sectors.
 

Some have progressed to postgraduate research, and several have taken up jobs as teachers.