MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 27,996 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* first application deadline
** UK students: £12,468 per year | International students: £27,996 per year
Introduction
Our Modern Languages, Literature and Culture MA allows you to deepen your knowledge of one or more of the languages and cultures of the French-, German-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-speaking worlds. You’ll be able to choose from the widest range and largest diversity of modules in the UK. Their historical scope goes from the medieval to the contemporary and covers literature, drama, visual arts, film, philosophy, cultural memory, and history.
Key benefits
- French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies are long-established areas of expertise at King’s College London, and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures has an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research
- We provide each student with close and personal attention, with teaching, offered in small groups that draw on the breadth and depth of lecturers' research expertise
- Students can take advantage of our central location in London giving them easy access to a wide range of institutes and centres that promote French, German, Hispanic and Lusophone cultures. We regularly collaborate with distinguished London partners (previous collaborations have included the Tate Galleries, the Imperial War Museum, the Freud Museum, the National Theatre and the Wiener Library)
- Our broad range of modules offers a truly interdisciplinary approach within and across languages that can be tailored to suit individual interest
Course essentials
The MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture can be taken in one year full-time or two years part-time. The programme combines the research strengths and subject specialisms of the four modern languages research clusters at King’s: French, German, Hispanic, and Lusophone Studies. In addition to the core dissertation and compulsory modules on research methodologies and cultural translation, you may choose from options on subjects from the Middle Ages to the present day. The course offers you the flexibility to focus on one or more of the cultures of the French-, German-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-speaking worlds.
Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
Admissions
Curriculum
Structure
Required modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
You are required to take:
- Research Methodology: Reading Theory/Reading Practice I (15 credits)
- Acts of Cultural Translation (15 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 90 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- Beyond the Human (15 credits)
- Documenting the Camp: Testimony, Memory, Legacy (15 credits)
- Writing the Body in Literature and Culture (15 credits)
- Renaissance Transgressions: Identity in European Perspective (15 credits)
- Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth Century Theories & Representations (15 credits)
- Text, Image, Object & Gesture in Twentieth-Century French Writing (15 credits)
- Decoloniality and the Global South (15 credits)
- Grammars of Race: Racialisations across the Iberian World (15 credits)
- Creative Practices in the Global Iberia (15 credits)
If you are a part-time student, in your first year you will take:
- Research Methodology: Reading Theory/Reading Practice I (15 credits)
- Acts of Cultural Translation (15 credits)
You will also take up to 30 credits of optional modules. In your second year, you will take a Dissertation (60 credits).
You will also take up to 60 credits of optional modules. A total of 90 credits of optional modules are to be taken over the two years of study.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered regularly to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, the modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place for all students who elect to study this module.
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Career Opportunities
Some of our students go on to research in our department or at other institutions. Others have gone on to excel in a diverse range of careers such as teaching, journalism, cultural management, politics and the world of finance.