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MA Postcolonial Studies

University of Kent, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching; as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.

General Eligibility

A first or second class honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Modules

Compulsory modules currently include:

Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses

Advanced Literary Research

Optional modules may include:

Race and Power

American Modernism, 1890-1940

Global Victorians

Post-45: American Literature and Culture in the Cold War Era

Transatlantic Literature and Culture 1880-1920

Queer Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Sex and Gender

Fiction 1

Poetry 1

Fiction 2

Poetry 2

Illness and Disability in American Culture

Postcolonial Writing and the Environment

Animal Humanities: Evolution to Extinction

Imperial Knowledge and Indigenous Responses: Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial South Asia

“Conflict, Race and American Empires”: Major Themes in American History

Reading the Past

Europe after Napoleon 1815-1849

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (including IELTS Indicator) 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 6.0 in R&W; 5.5 in S&L)

TOEFL iBT 90 overall (with a minimum of 22 in R; 21 in W; 17 in L; 20 in S)

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