📖Program Curriculum
Semester 1 - September to December
ENGLISH LITERATURE RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE
MODERNITIES I1880-1945
One option course
Semester 2 - January to March
MODERNITIES 2 1945 TO THE PRESENT
Two option courses
Summer - April to September
MODERNITIES DISSERTATION
Option courses
We have affiliated option courses and students may also choose from courses in the subject School and College of Arts by arrangement with conveners and subject to agreement and availability of places Not all options will be available in any given depending on staff availability A number of option courses have been devised with the needs of the Modernities programme particularly in mind including but not limited to
AFRICAN MODERNITIES COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN THE NOVEL
THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE 1945-75
CONTEMPORARY REALISMS
FANTASIES OF ENERGY PGT
MODERN EVERYDAY
THE MIND OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL
VIRGINIA WOOLF WRITES MODERNITY
F SCOTT FITZGERALD EDITH WHARTON AND DIALOGUES OF AMERICAN LITERARY MODERNISM
FUTURES UNBUNDLING THE NOW
Delivery
All taught courses are 20 credits and are delivered in weekly 2 hour seminars or similar
Students are taught in seminars and proceed through a planned sequence of reading and discussion The working style however is exploratory rather than didactic; students are expected to engage fully with primary sources to develop express and take responsibility for their own opinions and to work towards independent argument and expression in their resulting coursework and dissertation
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