MA/PGDip Gender, Sexuality and Culture / Course details
Year of entry: 2025
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Course description
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Teaching and learning
You will learn through a variety of teaching methods, depending on the units you take, including lectures, seminars and independent study.
Academics that teach on the course include:
Prof. Jackie Stacey - Media and Cultural Studies
Dr Monica Pearl -20th Century American Literature
Dr Gareth Gavin - Creative Writing
Dr Ben Nichols - Gender and Sexuality Studies
Prof. Daniela Caselli - Modern Literature
Coursework and assessment
You will be assessed in a variety of ways depending on the units you take, including written assignments, participation in discussions, and presentations.
Course unit details
Course unit list
The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
Title | Code | Credit rating | Mandatory/optional |
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Dissertation (MA) | ENGL60000 | 60 | Mandatory |
Critical Thinking in Gender and Sexuality Studies | ENGL60971 | 30 | Mandatory |
Race, Gender and Power in the American South: From Slavery to Segregation | AMER62002 | 15 | Optional |
Historicising the Contemporary: Literature and Politics 1970-2000 | ENGL60081 | 30 | Optional |
Queer Cinema and Beyond | ENGL60152 | 30 | Optional |
Modernisms | ENGL60451 | 30 | Optional |
Postcolonial Literatures, Genres and Theories | ENGL60462 | 30 | Optional |
Before `Sexuality': Bodies, Desires and Discourses, 1660-1900 | ENGL60882 | 15 | Optional |
Key Issues in Literary and Critical Theory | ENGL70032 | 30 | Optional |
Twenty-first Century Literature and Literary Culture | ENGL71212 | 30 | Optional |
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Facilities
You will have access to one of the UK's five National Research Libraries at Manchester, as well as 24/7 study facilities at the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons and cultural assets such as the John Rylands Library, the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum.
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