The MA in Gender and Culture offers an innovative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to the study of Gender and Culture.
The full-time course comprises three modules taken in each academic semester (a total of six modules) and then a dissertation over the summer.
In part one, students study three compulsory modules and three optional modules.
In part two, students are required to write the dissertation component which draws on issues and themes developed throughout the year.
Part-time study is available.
The typical entry requirement is a first degree in a relevant discipline, normally an lower second or above or equivalent. Overseas students are expected to possess an IELTS score of 6.5.
Semester One
Optional
The Romantic Sublime
Women Writing Modern Wales
Women Writing India
Fin’ Amor and Marriage in the Medieval English Secular Lyric
Being Greek under Rome: Greek Literature and Culture in the Imperial Period
Writing for the Stage
Dylan Thomas and the Idea of Welsh Writing in English
Creative Non-Fiction
Gender and Humour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Narrative Genres and Theory
Writing Poetry
‘The Unsex’d Females’: Woman Writers and the French Revolution
The Modernist Novel: James Joyce
Lost in Europe
Welsh Identities : Literature and Nationhood
Semester Two
Compulsory
Research Practice in English / Welsh Writing in English
Semester Two
Optional
Research Practice in English / Welsh Writing in English
Writing the Self
‘American Wales’: Writing the Transatlantic
Writing for Radio (drama)
International Dramaturgy
Fascism and Culture
Romance Refracted and Novels Renewed
Word, Metaphor, Allegory: effective models of reality
The Art of the Short Story
Locating Wales: Comparative Perspectives
Gender Trouble: the Medieval Anchorite
Neo-Victorian Mutinies: Gender & Racial Trauma in Neo-Victorian Fiction (& Film)
Gender and Culture: An Introduction
Explorers, Travel and Geography in the Ancient World
Woman Writers of the 1940’s
Angela Carter
Modernist Writing in London, Paris and New York
Gender in Contemporary European Culture
Saints and Sinners in Christian Late Antiquity