MA/PgDip/PgCert Literature, Culture and Modernity

  • Part-time study available
  • International students can apply
  • Duration :

    MA(one year full-time or three years part-time)
    PgDip (eight months full-time or two years part-time)

3 good reasons to study Literature, Culture and Modernity at Salford

  • Dynamic interdisciplinary research and teaching environment
  • Modules which draw on key cultural and literary institutions in and around Manchester and Salford.
  • Annual MA Conference that enables you to share your work with peers and academic staff.

This dynamic, interdisciplinary Masters course offers you the opportunity to develop your critical ability and to analyse the literature and language of the modern period.

You will focus on key areas of literary modernity, exploring the interactions between literature and theory. The interdisciplinary nature of the course encourages and stimulates debate about a range of cultural, political and historical issues as well as enabling you to interrogate the relationships between literature and other cultural forms.

You will learn in a lively research environment and benefit from the University of Salford’s links with local cultural organisations such as the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

You may also be interested in studying this course in a more flexible way by taking individual modules on a pay-as-you-go basis. You’d take the modules for full credit, so could build up to gaining the full qualification or simply take them for your own enjoyment and/or professional development. All of the modules on MA Literature, Culture and Modernity are available in this mode – please contact the course leader (Scott Thurston) if you need advice on choosing which ones are right for you.

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