MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought  MA Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought University of Sussex ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1534153195University-of-Sussex.jpg

This MA attempts to understand how literature has shaped and been shaped by modern and contemporary culture. It includes courses reflecting on the experience of the city, on photography, on modernism and postmodernism, on psychoanalysis, on the experience of war, and on globalisation. The range of courses on offer and the international excellence of our faculty make the study of modern and contemporary literature at Sussex uniquely dynamic and exciting. This MA is associated with the Centre for Modernist Studies. The Centre invites distinguished speakers from around the world and hosts regular colloquia in English, philosophy, American studies, and social and political thought. Our set of English programmes is currently under review and may change for 2012 entry. Full-time programmes can also be followed part time over two years, with taught seminars in the autumn and spring terms. Assessment You are assessed by four 5,000-word term papers and a dissertation of 15,000 words. Programme Structure Autumn and spring terms: you take four options from a list that may include American Poetry After Modernism ? Contemporary Writing ? Creativity and Utopia ? Gendering the Postcolonial ? ImagiNation: the Great American Novel ? Marxism and Creative Writing ? Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction in Britain ? Photography and Fiction in the 20th Century ? Representing the Great Depression in Literature and Culture ? The Migrant Writer: Postcolonialism and Creativity ? Theory in Practice.

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject. IELTS 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each section. Pearson Test of English (Academic) 67 overall, with at least 62 in all four skills