International Contemporary Literatures and Media (MA)

Do you have an interest in contemporary literature and film from around the globe? If so, the MA (International Contemporary Literatures and Media) is for you.

This is an exciting multidisciplinary and comparative MA programme that aims to familiarise you with movements, authors, texts and themes of international contemporary literature and film. Incorporating modules from, for example, Journalism, Film Studies, Drama and Performance, you will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of modules that will complement your interest areas and potential career path.  The programme also broadens your intellectual horizons and provides you with the skills for research and critical analysis.

While you do not need proficiency in languages other than English for this programme (in core modules, texts will be read in translation), proficiency in other languages will allow you to choose from a wider range of optional modules.

You will be prepared for a variety of careers in media, arts administration, teaching, and international marketing and communications.

The course provides excellent preparation also if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in this area. 

Subjects in this course are:-

• Optional GR521: Interpreting Literature: Theories & Methods - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FM6106: Gender, Sexuality and Cinema - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN541: Colonialism In Twentieth Century Cultural Theory - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional GR512: Modern German Literature I - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FM512: Film History I - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FM521: Critical Theory I - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional SH530: Latin-American Literature I - 15 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FR528: The Literature of France in Algeria - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional GG6100: Feminist and Gender Theorising - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN547: Literature And Colonialism - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional GR6100: Language & Intercultural Communication - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional FR530: Journaux D'ecrivains - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional DJ6127: Global Media and Society - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional EN6136: Thinking about Books/Thinking about Theatre - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required MIC504: The Art of Reading - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required MIC6101: Worlds of Fantasy: Literature, Film, Computer Games - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required MIC502: Dissertation - 30 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional DT6101: Irish Drama and Theatre from Beckett to the Present - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional IS109: Gaelic & Free: Cultural Politics & Writing in Irish since 1939 - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional IS108: The Politics of Modernity: Writing in English, 1922 to the present - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional FM6100: Film exhibition, administration and education - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional SH531: Latin-American Literature II - 15 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional GR513: Modern German Literature II - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional FM522: Critical Theory II - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional FM6119: Film, Politics, and Colonialism - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional DJ6122: Researching the Media - 5 Credits - Semester 2
• Optional EN6101: Books Journalism - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Required MIC501: Contemporary Literary Genres - 10 Credits - Semester 2
• Required MIC6100: Resisting through Culture: Conflicts in Europe and Beyond - 10 Credits - Semester 2