MA Creative Writing Scriptwriting

Course Code DNT1W800101SW
Attendance Full Time
Award Degree of Master of Arts

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Overview

The screenwriting pathway within this MA is industry-accredited by Skillset, the Sector Skills Training Council for the UK film industry. There is a Skillset Screenwriting Bursary available for the academic year 2009-10.*

Content
The MA will explore both theory and practice of dramatic writing, addressing contemporary critical debates, analysing written and performance texts, and experimenting with a range of techniques in original writing. Writers develop skills in constructive criticism and creative editing of each other's writing, towards the creation of a supportive writers' network.

Modules will be taught by theorists and practitioners, and will be supplemented by Master classes given by visiting specialists. Teaching will be via seminar discussions and presentations, screenings, workshops, readings and may also include performance visits. Students will be assessed through an analytical essay, original creative writing and working process materials.

The full-time Scriptwriting strand of the MA in Creative Writing is taken over one academic year (or two years, part-time). Students take four taught modules (two in the Autumn semester, two in Spring) and write a dissertation during the summer, with tutorial supervision. Three of the four taught modules are taken within the candidate's MA specialisation, two in Autumn, one in Spring; these are compulsory modules.

Each module is independently assessed, and is weighted at 20 credits.

The other taught module is an option choice taken from the range of modules offered within the Graduate School (excluding other Creative Writing workshops). These are self-contained modules of one semester duration, independently assessed. Each is weighted at 20 credits.

The dissertation is weighted at 90 credits ( 50% of the overall course grade). For Scriptwriters, the Dissertation is a full-length (90-120 minutes or variation, subject to negotiation) original script to at least second draft stage, for stage, screen (TV or feature film), or radio. The dissertation is written independently, but students receive regular tutorial supervision and advice.

*The University of East Anglia is committed to the education and development of disabled people. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments at interview, and to your study arrangements. The University actively works to foster a study environment where equality is promoted and diversity amongst students and staff is welcomed and respected. For more information please click here.

Course Organiser

Ms Val Taylor

Why Choose Us?

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing brings together writers, scholars, teachers and students in an exploration of the powers and possibilities of literature. Our aim is to make creative writing and critical reading confront one another in ways that sharpen and enliven both.

Literature

We teach and research across the range of English Literature from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. This coverage is supplemented by our interests in European Literature, in postcolonial writing in English across the world, and in literary and cultural theory.

Translation

UEA is home to the British Centre for Literary Translation, which is both a forum for professional translators and a focus for translation work with undergraduate and postgraduate students of literature. The School of Literature & Creative Writing runs the MA in Literary Translation course.

Creative Writing

For over thirty years UEA has been an important centre for established and upcoming writers, whether they come here as teachers, as students, as writers in residence, or to take part in the long-running literary festival organised by the Arthur Miller Centre and the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts. For more information on our Creative Writing MA courses, please click here.

Drama

Our drama programmes combine critical study with creative practice. The theoretical aspect draws on the expertise of LIT as a whole; the practical work is based in the purpose-built Drama Studio. For further information on the Drama sector, please click here.

Literature at UEA is not a complete, finished object of study, but a living practice. Because we also do creative writing, translation and drama, we are aware that imaginative writing is not fixed; it is constantly being transformed, adapted, rewritten and reread. Students are invited to study these processes, and also to be part of them. Click here to see what our students say about studying in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

Among a diverse group of about twenty literature lecturers, there are experts on the various roles that the practice of literature can play, and has played, in society — how it can be something like praying, or like journalism, or like conversation, how it can be a form of political action, or a vehicle for ideas, or a working out of unmanageable experience, or a way of negotiating (or inflaming) differences of class and race and gender. We teach literature not in isolation, but in relation to this untidy bundle of social and psychological purposes.

It follows that we have no great respect for the boundaries that divide one academic discipline from another. We take a lively interest in the work of our colleagues in history, philosophy, film, the visual arts and music, and we encourage our students to do the same. That is why we offer a range of degree programmes which combine literature with other, related subjects.

We run internationally recognised programmes of teaching and research in literature, translation, creative writing, and drama: the important thing about all of these is that they interact with each other.

Disclaimer

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.

Year 1

Year 1

Compulsory Study (160 credits)

Students will select 160 credits from the following module(s).

Name	Code	Credits	Period
Creative Writing and Research Seminars This 10-credit module, will consist of the writing of a synopsis or summary of the Dissertation script. It will be due for submission at the same time as the Dissertation itself. The word limit will be 500 to 1000 words. more...	LDCCM008	10	Semester 2
Creative Writing Dissertation Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	LDCCM03X	90	Semester 2
Creative Writing Workshop: Scriptwriting AFTER TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE LDCCM006 This module is compulsory for all Scriptwriting MA students and is reserved for students of the Scriptwriting programme. It is co-requisite with Scriptwriting: Dramaturgy (full-time students). Part-time students must complete Dramaturgy as a pre-requisite, in year 1. Workshop 1 builds upon the parallel study of dramaturgical theory and practice in the four major dramatic performance media. The module requires scriptwriters to incorporate the theory into their own creative practice in weekly creative development workshops. Writers will all complete a series of script planning and writing exercises: each week, two writers will bring their exercise to the workshop table for group discussion. more...	LDCCM005	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing: Scriptwriting: Dramaturgy This module is compulsory for all scriptwriting MA students, and is a co requisite with Scriptwriting: Workshop 1 for full time students (part time students must take Dramaturgy in the autumn of year 1, Workshop 1 in autumn of year 2, Scriptwriting: Process in spring of year 2). It may be taken as an option by non Scriptwriting students, subject to a maximum enrolment of 16 students. Students should note that this is an advanced level study of dramatic theory in the four major performance media (theatre, film, television, radio); non Scriptwriting students must have some prior experience of dramatic writing. more...	LDCCM009	20	Semester 1
Creative Writing: Scriptwriting: Process This module is compulsory for all Scriptwriting MA students and is reserved for students of the Scriptwriting programme. Dramaturgy and Workshop 1 are pre-requisites for this module. Students develop a short script for theatre/film/television/radio from initial idea through pitch/treatment/step outline/script drafts. In weekly workshop sessions, the stages of project development are tabled for tutorial and peer group critique. Assessment is by presentation of a portfolio of working documentation, script drafts and a short reflective essay. more...	LDCCM006	20	Semester 2

Option A Study (20 credits)

Students will select 20 credits from the following module(s).

Name

Code

Credits

Period

Adaptation and Interpretation

Critical reading and creative writing meet in the activity of adapting a text in one medium for presentation in another. The module focuses on dramatic adaptation, establishing a foundation in basic theory and then focusing on readings or original works and screenings. Discussions probe the choices offered by original texts and explore the possibilities and limitations inherent in different dramatic forms. In the later sessions, students will have the opportunity to workshop an adaptation for a final project. more...

LDCCM012

Semester 2

Contemporary World Theatre

Contemporary World Theatre examines how twentieth century theatre around the world has been affected by postcolonialism, globalization, immigration and interculturalism. Through an examination of postcolonial performance from former British colonies such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India, and the West Indies, important theatrical movements in the Americas, new performance styles found in Russia and Eastern Europe, immigrant performance in the United States and Britain, as well as the new 'intercultural' performance styles of directors such as Lepage and Mnouchkine, this course will examine how gender, race and class become key issues in understanding the ramifications of these colliding cultures. more...

LDCDM002

Semester 2

Postmodernism in Performance

This module interrogates the study of postmodernism in relation to theatre, performance and live art. Key theories relating to the emergence of the postmodern movement are studied alongside the work of practitioners. The module will examine some of the innovative work occurring in contemporary theatre and cultural practice, as well as study the influences upon contemporary artists from earlier modernist avant-garde work of Europe and the United States. These movements include Futurism, Dada, Constructivism and the 'neo-dada' Happenings and Fluxus movements in 1960s Europe and America and the study of contemporary postmodern performance groups and practitioners such as Forced Entertainment, The Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, SITI Company, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Need Company, and Le Page. more...

LDCDM012

Semester 2

Publishing - A Practical Approach

This module aims to give students an introduction to the modern publishing industry and a practical survival guide to the different functions involved in the publication of a book. As well as learning about the structure and economics of the British book industry, students will engage with the process whereby books are chosen for publication, review principles of text and jacket design, practice basic copyediting and proofreading skills and learn tips for running a marketing and publicity campaign, writing 'blurbs' and press releases. The course will also touch on copyright law, finance and distribution. more...

LDCCM016

Semester 2

Theory and Practice of Fiction

This module is designed to complement the prose fiction workshop but is open to students on related programmes. It is intended to provide students with creative and critical knowledge in a single experiential burst, by exploring as they are relevant to writing fiction such topics as time, place, dramatic structure, character and concinnity. The unit also gives consideration to professional issues confronting novelists, from writer's block to editing, contracts and dealing with the media. The module presents the writer as both artist and supplier of intellectual property to a market, while examining that and other tensions critically. Reading, writing and analysis happen alongside each other. Fictional, critical and professional texts are examined, writing exercises illuminating the issue at hand are undertaken. Students are also expected to make presentations on topics of their choice. Assessment by creative writing coursework with a critical commentary. more...

LDCCM024

Semester 2

You may also pick any of the modules that begin with:

AMSAM

The Dirty South: Reading Southern Cultures In William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Shreve McCannon asks his Harvard roomate, Mississippian Quentin Compson, to "Tell about the South": "What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all." In this module, we will explore the contrasting ways that those questions have been answered - and, indeed, still continue to be answered - by Southerners and others. Reading widely in Southern literature, we will witness the emergence of a distinct Southern literary identity in the years before the Civil War; consider the effect of slavery on the development of Southern letters; encounter, through Reconstruction and beyond, the effects of defeat, liberation and memory; meet the flowering of the Southern Renaissance; and trace the development of Southern writing through the Civil Rights Era and beyond, up to the present day. But we will also consider a variety of other Southern cultures - music, particularly, from country to hip-hop, but also film and television - and think about the ongoing representations of the South by outsiders. And throughout, we will question the shifting meaning of "the South", and consider its persistent significance in the twenty-first century. more...	AMSAM038	20	Semester 2
The Imperial Origins of the United States and Canada The Imperial Origins of the United States and Canada begins with an examination of the condition of North America in 1492, and proceeds to discuss in the next three sessions to analyse the impact of trade, missionary work, European settlement, warfare, slavery and imperial rivalry in three broad geographic regions: 1) The Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and southern Atlantic coasts of North America; 2) The St. Lawrence valley, New England and the Canadian Maritime regions; and 3) New Netherland, New Sweden and their successor colonies, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvannia. Having laid this foundation, the module continues chronogically, examining the Spanish, French, and British Emmpires in North America side-by-side, through the period of the American Revolution and on to the War of 1812. Over the long run, the British Empire spawned two huge polities in North America, and the module will close by examining its distinctive legacies on the two sides of the U.S. - Canadian border. more...	AMSAM025	20	Semester 1
American Literature Dissertation Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	AMSAM04X	90	Semester 2
American Studies Dissertation	AMSAM03X	90	Semester 2
Native American History This module aims to provide students with general knowledge of Native American History within the broad context of US history up to the present day. We will follow a chronological sequence, based on a survey text. Scholarly articles will enable students to become familiar with recent work in this field, and archival documents will be used to develop skills in analysing primary texts. All students will be given the opportunity to study one tribe/nation in depth. more...	AMSAM005	20	Semester 1
Remapping America: Transnational Perspectives and the American Imagination In a 1993 White House speech entitled, "U.S Interests in Caribbean: Building a Hemispheric Community of Democracies", President Bill Clinton stated that, 'more than ever before, our nation is a Caribbean nation.' The inseparability of hemispheric and domestic issues was also an integral component of Barack Obama's election campaign, made clear in a speech in Miami, Florida, in May 2008, where he stated that 'the future security and prosperity of the United States is fundamentally tied to the future of the Americas'. The Caribbean and Latin America have historically been the loci for U.S. economic and political interaction and expansion, and simultaneously excluded from the historical narrative of Western Modernity; an irony underscored by the fact that the region was historically pivotal to the rise of the dominance of the 'West' and the source of its wealth. This module thus focuses on America from a transnational perspective and rethinks U.S. culture in relation to the American hemisphere. The module remaps the literary and cultural geography of the U.S. exploring, amongst other things, the pace of the Caribbean and Latin America in the American imagination; the ways in which the Caribbean and Latin America have been, historically and up to the present day, sites onto which U.S. Americans inscribe and project fantasies and fears, dreams and nightmares; and the ways in which the Caribbean and Latin Americn have been, and are, integral to U.S. formations of national identity. more...	AMSAM023	20	Semester 1
The 20th Century Novel This module emphasizes close reading, and exposure to some of the masterpieces of 20th century American prose fiction, over theoretical paradigms or a great deal of critical reading. Each week we will discuss a significant 20th century American novel (and author) in depth, coming to grips with their primary themes, structures, and techniques. However, many of our books have a solid body of scholarship associated with them with which you should also certainly expect to familiarize yourself, and each week's reading will include a required scholarly essay, which will be selected by your classmates for their presentation. more...	AMSAM017	20	Semester 1
Slave Life in the Antebellum South While popular representations of New World slavery range from the dehumanized slave body to the romanticisation of enslaved life, scholarly work over the last few decades has sharpened our understanding of what it meant to be an enslaved man,woman and child in the context of Atlantic slavery. This module concerns the lived experiences of the enslaved in the slaveholding south. It is structured around the cultural histories of the lives and will consider how concepts such as race, class, gender, and sexuality interacted and were articulated in this particular historical context. Concepts of power and resistance will also be central to the discussion, as both enslaver and enslaved negotiated the limits of control in their own lives and those of others. The module will employ a variety of source materials including slave narratives, folklore tales, work-songs, and fictional representations of slavery in order to try and fully reveal the complexities of enslaved life. more...	AMSAM032	20	Semester 2
Theories of American Culture This Core Autumn module introduces students to key theories in American Studies. As American Studies is an interdisciplinary field, we require all MA students in our School, whether focusing upon American History, American Literature, Film and American Studies, or American Studies, to familiarize themselves with foundational concepts in the field. The reading list will vary, but will generally have a week of introduction followed by three weeks on literary and textual theory, three weeks on historiography, and three weeks on visual culture and film theory. The aim of the module is to ensure that all students are comfortable with the basic theoretical tools necessary to advanced study in American cultural studies of all varieties. more...	AMSAM009	20	Semester 1
Research and Methodology Training Seminar This module is run over two semesters. The Autumn and Spring semester element of the training requires attendance and active engagement at the School research seminars which are run on a weekly basis. In addition, during the Spring semester students will take a half-module concerned with preparation for writing their dissertations over the Summer. Students will present their dissertation proposal at the last of the School's research seminars in the Spring Semester. Assessment will be based on a reflective report, written at the end of the autumn semester, concerning the research seminars students have attended. The spring semester will be assessed through presentation and submission of the dissertation proposal. more...	AMSAM02Y	10	Year Period
Body Spaces: Poetry, Poetics and the Postmodern Central to post-war American avant-garde aesthetics and poetics is an investigation of the constructedness of the space we inhabit and of the bodies we occupy. By close and detailed analysis of a range of experimental American texts - painting and especially, poetry - from 1950 to the present day, this module explores the ways in which ideas of the postmodern in America can be seen to 'work' through such politicised constructions of the body as gender, sexuality and subjectivity. Running alongside its reading of poetic and artistic texts, the module will also consider the ways in which theories and theorists of the postmodern reflect the concern of America's experimental arts with an aesthetics of 'process' rather than of 'product'. It thereby questions the extent to which a poetics of the postmodern challenges the cultural space that America has inhabited in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. more...	AMSAM034	20	Semester 2

FTVFM

Creativity and Development in Film and Television Production The module is designed to introduce students to key skills in film and television development practice. It will provide an understanding of the processes of creative script and project development, including film and TV business, the activities of the market and dealing with bodies responsible for commissioning films and television programmes. Priority for places on this module will be given to students taking the MA in Film Studies. more...	FTVFM058	20	Semester 2
Science Fiction Science Fiction films and television series have provided a significant focus for addressing social/cultural and political issues. This module looks at the historical development of the genre, with an emphasis on locating the films/television programs within an historical and cultural context. An array of films and series episodes from both the US and UK will be screened and various clips will also be discussed in seminar. Films/television programs covered in the module will include: Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), Things to Come (1936), Forbidden Planet (1956), Quatermass 2 (1957), Lost in Space (1965-1968), Doctor Who (1963-1989), Altered States (1980), Threads (1984), Robocop (1987), Independence Day (1996), The Matrix (1999). more...	FTVFM054	20	Semester 2
Spectacle in British Cinema Discussions around the structure and aesthetic nature of British cinema often rely on claims of "quality", emotional restraint, and documentary realism. The influence of the 1930s British documentry filmmaking movement is seen as infusing elements of national visual production, including (but not limited to) narrative, style, acting, genre and industrial promotion. Applied across the history of British cinema, this approach has privileged only one strand of production and ignored other (potentially more potent) visual alternatives, notably ideas around the spectacular. This module will challenge the primacy of realism in British cinema by examining the ways that spectacle has been at the forefront of the British film industry for over a hundred years, despite its neglect within the critical establishment. Individual films, directors and movements within British cinema history will form specific case studies that offer further exploration of these concepts. There will be a consideration of the close relationship of the British film and television industries, and how aspects of realism and fantasy have moved across these different screens. Crucially, the module will also investigate the often disregarded trend towards British technological innovation (specifically colour filmmaking, widescreen, 3-D, video and digital production), creating an alternative heritage of British film spectacle. more...	FTVFM051	20	Semester 1
Music, Media, Society This module considers the changing role of music within social and cultural practices, its varied relationships with selfhood, media and technology, bodies, everyday lives and social power. In surveying the ways music is and has been bound up in social and cultural formations, the module engages with a range of theoretical issues about how music `works' as well as exploring some of the ways organised sound can be said to `mean' in differing contexts. The module also introduces students to an eclectic range of writings and questions about music in social life, considering questions about the materiality of sound, musical communities, performance, media and affect, positioning such issues in relation to music's production, circulation and consumption. more...	FTVFM062	20	Semester 2
Japanese Film: National Cinema and Beyond This module explores the concept of Japanese cinema in relation to national, transnational and global discourses and seeks to reframe discussions of modern and past Japanese filmmaking. We will examine a variety of Japanese films and the ways in which they interact with the history, techniques and culture of Japan. We will also consider the social and commercial nature of Japanese filmmaking, including the ways in which Japanese films circulate the globe. more...	FTVFM032	20	Semester 2
Studying Media This module is intended to provide an introduction to the key study skills in film, television and media studies for students unfamiliar with the British university system and its expectations of students. Focusing on the key issues and academic debates within media studies, it will provide students with a sense of the educational expectations that they will encounter during their other modules and help them to acclimatise themselves to the culture of British universities. more...	FTVFM029	20	Semester 1
Television and Reality This module will examine the particular ways in which television - as a technology, as an institution, and as a social phenomenon - records, responds to, and contributes towards constructing our sense of reality. Taking recent developments within television and society - such as the growth of surveillance, genre hybrids, and the availability of media technology - as its starting point, it will explore ranges of genres - such as documentary, reality television, and comedy - from a predominantly British and public service broadcasting perspective. more...	FTVFM035	20	Semester 1
Film Studies Dissertation This module involves the production of a 12,000-15,000 word piece of work, which focuses upon a suitable topic of your own choosing. You will be assigned a supervisor to advise you on your research and writing of the dissertation. more...	FTVFM60X	60	Semester 2
Women and Film This module intends to explore and critically reflect upon the relationship between women and film whilst focusing on issues such as women's cinema as counter cinema; women's cinema as minor cinema; women filmmakers; international women's film festivals; the representation of women in film; female spectatorship, (fe)male gaze; sexuality; feminism and post-feminism in film; female subjectivity; female desire, feminist filmmaking. The module will focus on analysing contemporary films from a variety of national and transnational cinemas that may include Hollywood, British, Turkish, Japanese, Argentina, Palestine, India, Greece, Portugal, Africa and Brazil. more...	FTVFM060	20	Semester 2
Film and Television Production The module is designed to introduce students to key skills in film and television practice. It will provide an understanding of the processes of screenwriting, camerawork, editing and direction. In the process, it will focus students less on the simple technical elements but also in ways of seeking creative solutions to practical problems. This module will focus the students on how to deliver within the normal constraints of media production, ie, students will have to think about working to a brief rather than simply imagining themselves as independent artists. Priority for places on this module will be given to students taking the MA in Film Studies. more...	FTVFM041	20	Semester 1
Television Genres The module will explore the study of television genres, and the concept of television genre. In the process, it will assess the various approaches to the study of television genre, looking at the specific nature of TV genre (as opposed to literary or film genres), aspects of the historical development of particular genres, and the relationship between genre and cultural power. It will also examine television genre through a series of case studies. The module will be taught through one three-hour seminar (which includes the screening). more...	FTVFM044	20	Semester 2
Effects, Audiences and the Media The module is designed to explore the debates over media effects. In the process, it will challenge the effects tradition, which motivates many of the concerns with media censorship and regulation, and suggests alternative ways of understanding the ways in which audiences consume contemporary media. In the process, it will examine a range of approaches to the understanding of media consumption. more...	FTVFM046	20	Semester 2
Film Studies: History, Theory, Criticism This unit aims to provide key terms of reference and research skills in the study of film; to identify key objects, theories and methods in the analysis of film; and to provide a sense of historical development of film. Intended learning outcomes: a) Knowledge and Understanding. By the end of the unit should: have some of the key skills for the study of film at M level; have an awareness of the debates between different approaches to the study of film; be familiar with the key objects, theories and methods in the analysis of film; have some familiarity with the historical development of film. b) Intellectual Skills. By the end of the unit students should be able to: apply the key approaches to the analysis of film; assesses the debates between these different approaches; construct coherent and independent arguments. c) Professional Skills. The unit will develop students' ability to: select, sift and synthesize information from a variety of primary and secondary materials; write accurately and grammatically and present written material suing appropriate conventions. d) Transferable Skills. The unit will also develop students' ability to: manage a large and disparate body of information; use IT to word process assessed work; speak and write cogently about a chosen subject area. more...	FTVFM023	20	Semester 1
The Big Picture: Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Hollywood has remained a dominant force in film production, distribution and exhibition in recent decades, despite competition from other local and transnational cinemas. This module aims to explore the success of the Hollywood system through a focus on the industry itself, and the films it produces, particularly those that have been most successful at the domestic and international box office. The module will, therefore, cover a range of relevant topics that may include: what kind of films does Hollywood invest in? Is financial gain the best lens to judge issues of `popularity'? Who are the target audiences for those films? What is the role of the audience in receiving and popularising these hit movies? What is the relationship between domestic theatrical release, circulation in foreign markets and distribution in other media such as television, film, and DVD? more...	FTVFM015	20	Semester 1

LDCEM

Medieval and Early Modern: Continuity, Change and Periodisation This module offers an advanced critical survey of a wide range of medieval and early modern literature and is designed to introduce students to many of the forms, genres and preoccupations that reoccur and evolve between the late 14th century and mid-17th century. Each week we will look at a focused selection of materials that are loosely grouped by form, genre and or theme and examine both continuity and change across the period. The module resists implying that there is a wholesale increase in aesthetic and intellectual sophistication across the period but draws attention to nuances of historical context and the different ways in which each age develops and reformulates conceptions of literary form and tradition. The module begins by introducing the methodological principles and tools to be used, together with an overview of medieval and early modern literary theory, and then goes on to consider topics such as pastoral, lyric poetry, romance, hagiography, satire and complaint, Reformist writing, and the Galfridian tradition. more...	LDCEM048	20	Semester 2
Literary Translation Research and Methodology Training Seminar Students are enrolled on a Research Methods module. The assessment for this is the pass/fail viva. This module is not taught separately, but consists of a number of generic sessions and also a number of specific MALT sessions within the seminars, such as the Essay Writing session in Week 8 of Stylistics for Translators, a session on bibliographies and glosses, and so on. more...	LDCEM066	10	Semester 2
Dissertation - Literary Translation The dissertation is a compulsory requirement for all taught MA programmes. Work on the dissertation is begun at the end of the 2nd teaching semester for full-time students, or earlier for part-time students. Dissertations may take the form of either (i) a critical essay about an aspect of translation or (ii) a translation with commentary. The choice of research topic for the dissertation is made by the students in consultation with their course convenor. Supervision normally functions on the basis of one contact hour with the supervisor every three weeks throughout the summer. more...	LDCEM04X	90	Semester 2
The Modernist Novel The module will examine a number of modernist novels, provisionally including James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Wyndham Lewis's Tar (1918), Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), D H Lawrence's Women in Love (1917) and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936). Alongside the close analysis of the experimental writing practices of different novelists, we will consider a range of narrative theories from the early twentieth century. We will go on to look at some influential later critical responses to the form and content of modernist novels. more...	LDCEM031	20	Semester 1
Life Writing: Theory Into Practice This module is only available to students who are registered for the MA in Life Writing. This module, which is compulsory for Life Writers, aims to develop the practical research and writing skills necessary to become a biographer. Subjects covered include archive work and record-keeping together with story-telling, plot and character development. Taught by specialists from within LIT, the programme will be supplemented by sessions with professional Life Writers. A workshop element also gives students the chance to develop their own writing and learn how to give and receive criticism. more...	LDCEM029	20	Semester 1
The Persistence of the Aesthetic This module addresses the relation between art and politics by examining the attempt to unmask the aesthetic as ideological. In order to do this, we will acquire a firm grasp of the meaning of 'the aesthetic' and of what it is often taken to conceal, 'ideology'. We will, therefore, begin by exploring what has been called the 'invention' of the aesthetic in modernity, paying particular attention to the emergence of the aesthetic as a category in the eighteenth century as part of debates concerning the public sphere, disinterestedness, and universality. Key figures here will include the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Schiller. We will then move on to consider the precise meaning of 'ideology' in its various forms in the work of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Theodor Adorno. Our focus in particular will be on the way in which the aesthetic has been thought to relate to 'ideology' by these, and numerous other, thinkers from fields such as sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and art history. But far from simply deploying the tools of ideological analysis as a means to expose the covert politics of the aesthetic as such, we will ask whether the aesthetic is as vulnerable to so-called ideology - critique as has sometime been claimed. We will thus evaluate recent attempts to renovate the aesthetic by figures such as Jacques Ranciere, Isobel Armstrong, J.M. Berstein and others. This module, therefore, will address concerns central to those interested in the history and theory of literary and art criticism, and also in cultural and educational policy. more...	LDCEM062	20	Semester 2
Textual Cultures: Issues and Methodologies The aim of the module is to equip you with the methodological skills needed for the study of textual cultures at Masters level and beyond. The course encourages critical engagement with technical, practical, critical and theoretical approaches in the study of the production, transmission and reception of late medieval and early modern texts. Specific research skills training will include: bibliographical skills and resource use, including print, microfiches and digital; aspects of codicology, palaeography, and types of source study. Questions that the textuality of the book raises will be addressed: issues of audience, readership and types of literacy, 'authorship', textual stability and mobility, transmission, and the editing of texts. This module will illustrate how texts are the material traces of a wide variety of agencies acting upon the cultural circumstances within which texts are produced, dispersed and used, allowing manuscript study to engage more fully with cultural history. The module aims to widen understanding of how new critical and methodological developments are redefining and integrating notions of what constitutes a culture in diverse textual contexts; of assessing the text's contribution to social cohesion, fragmentation and identify formation; and addressing questions as to what extent textual processes in production, transmission, reception and regulation are agents and/or products of, for instance, geographical regions, ethnic groupings, social and gender groups. The module also incorporates directions on the methods of researching and presenting a piece of scholarly writing and instruction in techniques regarding the use of specialist library collections, archives, and electronic databases for the purposes of accessing information. more...	LDCEM041	20	Semester 1
European Gothic: Fear and Horror As Trans-National Dialogue Scholars (Praz, Milner, Hadley, LeTellier, Fink, Didier, Hale, and recently Hall) have long ago conceived of the Gothic as a European phenomenon, exported and imported between England, France and Germany. This course starts from the question: 'What happens if you bring the Gothic novel, the roman noir, and the Schauerroman together?' We shall look at a range of texts, not as a tight, unified 'English' genre, but as a set of cultural responses (and translations of responses) to the age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Each text will introduce a set of contextual reoccupations. The emphasis is not simply on linear development, but on cultural transmission and the dispersal of ideas. more...	LDCEM044	20	Semester 2
Stylistics for Translators This module will examine style in texts, and how the analysis of style affects translation. We will look at various different approaches to the definition and understanding of style, concentrating on the stylistic analysis of literary (and some non-literary) texts of all types. In the final weeks of the semester students will present and discuss the translation of style in texts and languages of their choice more...	LDCEM033	20	Semester 1
Biography This module, compulsory for students on the MA in Life Writing, explores the history and controversies of Biography, from Plutarch to Holroyd by way of Boswell and Strachey. In the process we will discuss cultural myth, human empathy and identity and notions of celebrity. We will ask how men's and women's life-stories have been differently shaped, narrated and interpreted. We will also look at that particularly British phenomenon, the professional biographer, and explore why and how his/her work may vary from that produced by scholars working from within the academy. Students will be encouraged to find their own special subjects, to study comparative biography, and to look at experimentation beginning with Virginia Woolf where fact and fiction, 'granite and rainbow' meet. Seminar work may include presenting the case for a favourite modern biography (and how it might be improved); introducing an historical topic from notes (eg Romantic rebels, Victorian heroines, Bloomsbury sceptics). Crucially, you will be asked to keep abreast of new biographical works and its critical reception. Finally you will write a 5,000 word essay, in preparation for a supervised dissertation in the summer. more...	LDCEM015	20	Semester 1
English Literature Dissertation Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	LDCEM03X	90	Semester 2
Translation Theory This module discusses key theoretical and descriptive pronouncements on translation by theorists and practising translators working within the Western tradition. The focus is predominantly on contemporary work, with some older commentary providing historical context. Students are encouraged to explore their own theoretical interests and present their findings in class. more...	LDCEM036	20	Semester 2
Reading Women This module has three key strands: we will focus on ideas of reading and reception, a showcasing of East Anglian authors and local literary traditions, and a study of women's role in medieval literary production. Works by women writers will be studied through a series of close readings, which will consider how different religious, cultural, and social expectations of women were negotiated by them and affected the nature of their literary production. How does a woman write with authority? Can we speak of a female or `feminine' literary identity? There will also be a detailed study of female patronage and reception networks. Questions asked will include: is the idea of a reading network rather than reading community a more dynamic and useful model? Is there such a thing as female literary taste? What dynamics are there in secular reading networks? Are secular and religious networks distinct entities? Why and what role do women play in the patronage, dissemination and reception of what are often ostensibly misogynistic texts? How do women's role in the making and unmaking of legendary heroes change according to different narrative and manuscript contexts?This module teases the methodological scope of Book History, emphasizing the text's location within its manuscript matrix and its cultural location within networks of patronage, production and dissemination, while adding new methods of historical enquiry, such as ethnography,sociological and reception studies. more...	LDCEM052	20	Semester 2
Research and Methodology Training Seminar	LDCEM020	10	Semester 2
Postcolonial Writing This module will initially focus on two topics that have been prominent in debates central to the development of postcolonial and related studies: Voices and Histories; and Crossings and Borders. Drawing on recent work in cultural geography, it will also consider ways in which place and space have been constructed in particular post-colonial texts. The module will locate primary texts within some of the discursive contexts from which they have emerged, while recognizing that these contexts are themselves invariably hybridized. The more general applicability of postcolonial theory for the study of writing and cultures will be considered, as will the limitations of totalizing postcolonial approaches. Other issues for consideration will include the representation of "Otherness" and the relationship between post-colonial "con-texts" such as Wide Sargasso Sea and Foe and the canonical English works on which they are ostensibly based (viz. Jane Eyre and Robinson Crusoe). more...	LDCEM004	20	Semester 2
The Possibility of Fiction: Experiment and Tradition After Beckett If one of the legacies of modernism is a questioning of the very possbility of writing, another is an understanding of fiction as a space of possibility, of active and necessary experiement and exploration In each case, the question of what is or should be possible is tied closely to an engagement with the basic constituent parts of the novel or the story: with character, voice, knowledge, fictionality, even the material object of the book itself. This module sets out to read some prominent examples of innovative post-war and contemporary fiction, beginning with late Beckett and moving unchronologically the likes of Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, Michael Ondaatje, Janice Galloway and J.M. Coetzee. Alongside the fiction we'll be reading a selection of contemporaneous theoretical writing in which related possibilites are debarted. more...	LDCEM054	20	Semester 2
Culture and Its Discontents From trauma theory and Holocaust Studies to critical human rights and refugee studies, thinking about culture's profound discontents motivates much of the most innovative work in the theoretical humanities today. This module focuses on two key theorists of modern experience: Sigmund Freud, for whom the unconscious registered the trauma of modern living, and the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, for whom the horrors of totalitarianism opened up holes of oblivion in the way we think and judge. Reading them together, we will examine the way Freud and Arendt open up a new space to think about the relation between the psyche and the political. Core reading will include: The Portable Hannah Arendt, ed. Peter Baehr (Penguin) The Freud Reader, ed. Adam Phillips (Penguin) The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (Edinburgh UP) more...	LDCEM049	20	Semester 1
Novel History We are currently witnessing a renaissance in history writing. Sales of historical novels continue to rise steeply. Societies have formed, new prizes established. A number of eminent historians are turning from fact to fiction. What can the historical novel do in terms of reaching the past that more conventional historical accounts cannot do? Can it challenge long-told historical narratives, propose new ones or give us new vantage points? Novel History is a critical-creative MA module that crosses the boundaries between literature, art history, history and creative writing to explore the possibilities (and paradoxes) of historical fiction. Students will study the history of the historical novel and read critical and theoretical essays about the writing of history alongside examples of innovative or revionist contemporary historical fiction including work by W.S. Sebald, Iain Pears, Rose Tremain, Hilary Mantel and Salman Rushdie. They will also explore ideas around 'object history' through a series of workshop sessions amongst the historical objects of UEA's extraordinary rich collection in the Sainsburys Centre. Students will present work in progress in the workshop format as they move towards a final piece of creative writing, a short story or radio script, screen or theatre script, with an accompanying critical essay. Students will be given the option of structuring their final work around a single chosen object from the Sainsbury Centre collection. more...	LDCEM064	20	Semester 2
Crossing Boundaries: Women Writers in Modern Europe This module will explore some of the issues and obstacles encountered by women writing in a range of European traditions during the "long twentieth century" - continuing into the 21st with the award of Nobel Prizes for Literature to the controversial Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (2004 and the Romanian-German writer Herta M??ller (2009). Taking a broadly chronological approach, the focus will be primarily on the impact of the two "women's movements" of the twentieth century on perceptions of writing and subjectivity as they affect women writers in a range of European countries. Within this chronological context and under a number of themed headings, examples will be taken primarily from Western Europe, in particular the German-speaking, French and English literary traditions. Students are however encouraged to make connections with the work of other writers beyond those on the reading list and to make comparisons with the position and role of women's writing in other literatures with which they may be familiar. Seminar discussions will thus consider not merely geographical and physical boundaries but the wider social and textual frameworks within and against which, arguably, a distinctive women's voice (or voices) may be said to emerge. more...	LDCEM028	20	Semester 2
Process and Product in Translation This module is designed to allow students to produce translations in conditions that encourage and facilitate reflection on the process and product of translation. It encourages students to think experimentally, not only about the forms a finished translation might take, but also about the ways in which process might be incorporated into that translation. The module has a workshop format and culminates in a series of presentations by students of the projects on which they have chosen to work. A series of sessions, devoted to the discussion of problems, both theoretical and practical, connected with translation and the projects ahead, precede the presentations. more...	LDCEM034	20	Semester 2
Case Studies This seminar looks at ways in which specific authors/works/genres pass into other cultures through translation. We will look at three genres ' children's literature, drama, and crime fiction ' and for each one, we will analyse the type, identify challenges in translating it, discuss strategies, and examine examples of works in that style, using close textual analysis to see how translators can tackle problems of linguistic, stylistic, and cultural difference. We will then practice translating texts from that genre. more...	LDCEM039	20	Semester 1
The Actor in Space The extremely various theatres of late medieval and early modern England situate the figure of the actor in a great many different settings and configurations. The place of performance may be public, or owned by a patron or by the actors themselves; it may be candle-lit or open to the sky; it may be a communal space for action or the illusionistic location of the fiction; and that fictional world, in turn, may be unitary or else divisively assigned to angels and devils, kings and clowns, speakers and singers. It is possible to grasp this diversity as an historical narrative (from the medieval pageant to the professional stage, from the Elizabethan amphitheatre to the Restoration playhouse with movable scenery), but it was also, often, a synchronic range of possible spaces, each with its distinctive cultural affiliation, each corresponding to, and making visible, its distinctive conceptions of the human, the social and the sacred. The course will explore these spaces by looking not only or even mainly at the theatre history, but at the scripts that record and suggest their meanings. more...	LDCEM047	20	Semester 1
Critical Theories of the Western Self The course introduces students to the major shifts in philosophical thinking about the Western self from Descartes to the twentieth century. The course will provide students with a training in theoretical debate through the analysis and discussion of a selection of the important thinkers on this list: Descartes, Rousseau, Hegel, Kant, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray, Deleuze and Butler. Through acquaintance with different theoretical traditions, students will have the opportunity to reflect critically on the processes and implications of cultural change; and to relate their understanding of the self and philosophy to other fields such as literature. more...	LDCEM011	20	Semester 1
Autobiography This module, which is compulsory for students on the MA in Life Writing, will look at the history of autobiographical writing, from St Augustine to W G Sebald by way of Gertrude Stein. Though we shall concentrate on writers using English as their first language, we shall also consider some works in translation. We shall think about different ways of describing the self, whether these emphasise an integrated self or question notions of identity, and shall also reflect on the connections between biography and autobiography. Assessment is by a 5,000 essay. Please note that although this module is not designed for those wishing to write their own memoir or autobiography, we may use some writing exercises as a means towards better understanding the problems tackled by the authors we are studying. more...	LDCEM014	20	Semester 2
Translation Workshop A series of workshops by practising translators, shared by the MA in Literary Translation and the MA in Applied Translation Studies. These will be on different aspects of translation, and will involve various genres. There is generally no preparation required for workshops, but students are asked to find out as much as possible in advance about the workshop-holder's background and work. There will usually be translation exercises and discussion in class. Some workshops are on literary topics, but some also deal with non-literary translation or other issues such as approaching a publisher. The workshop programme will be distributed at the start of the academic year. more...	LDCEM04Y	0	Year Period

PSIIM

Religion and International Relations Religion has largely been ignored in International Relations throughout much of the twentieth century. However, since the 9/11 attacks, it has become an increasingly important issue. This module examines the resurgence of religion as an international actor seeking to discover the relevance of religion in international relations theory, identity formation, and the war on terror. Suggested reading: Jeffrey Haynes, An Introduction to International Relations and Religion (Longman, 2007); Lee Marsden, For God's Sake: the Christian Right and US Foreign Policy (Zed Books, 2008). more...	PSIIM021	20	Semester 1
International Organisations and Public Policy The module aims to enable students to develop an understanding of the role of international organisations and their impact on public policy and public management at the domestic and international levels. Students will discuss critically the theories, models and concepts used in the analysis of international cooperation, competing perspectives in international politics and demonstrate the role they play in public policy and public management. The UN, NATO, IMF, WTO, World Bank and EU will be examined and why sovereign states decide to establish these and other international organisations. Their role in security, trade, finance, gender and environmental policy will be considered and the factors which determine their design and evolution. The extent to which their operation reflects underlying power and interest will be evaluated and the extent to which they have democratic legitimacy. more...	PSIIM006	20	Semester 2
The European Union in International Affairs The module focuses on European Political Cooperation now and into the future, particularly Europe's role as an international actor. Issues include the EU and international conflicts such as the Gulf War, the Middle East and former Yugoslavia, the EU's position as one of three major economic world powers, the EU and Third World development, new considerations in European security, global environmental and energy concerns. Convergence or divergence in European political consensus is examined through these issues in an attempt to draw useful insights for the future of European Integration. more...	PSIIM010	20	Semester 2
International History of the Asia-Pacific Region This module looks at the history of the region, including the involvement of the superpowers in the politics of the cold war in Asia. Conflict in the region as well as the rise and fall of the regional powers are reviewed. The development of multipolarity and the importance of the Asia-Pacific region in the post-cold war world is also covered. The aftermath of the Second World War, the onset of the Cold War, conflict in Korea and Vietnam, the changing relationship between the US, USSR and China are covered, as is the development of Southeast Asia in the modern world. We also assess the major issues contemporary to the region. more...	PSIIM007	20	Semester 1
European Media and the Eu: News and Documentary This module looks at media concepts, situations and policies in Europe and assesses the representation of contemporary topics important to the EU. Topics include history/role of European media, newsworthiness and representation - public opinion - press freedom and responsibility, press concentration, deregulation and globalisation, the media in EU countries (particularly press and TV), the EU and its audiovisual communications' policy, case studies on the EURO, EU enlargement, war and conflict, European identity and the EU, constitution, democracy and the potential of cybermedia. more...	PSIIM005	20	Semester 1
European Union: Power, Politics and Policy This module studies the integration process in Europe. It introduces the evolution of political and economic co-operation. The main political actors and their roles are identified and the workings of the European Union as a polity assessed in the light of relevant theoretical discourses and interpretations. more...	PSIIM003	20	Semester 1
International Security This course examines the study of security in the international system, through its roots in Cold War strategic studies to the development of the more broadly focused field of security studies today. The course critically analyses contemporary security issues and provides a sound theoretical base for considering practical issues of security, including new wars, intervention and terrorism. Themes explored include security and the nation state, war and peace, new wars, alliances, democratic peace, securitisation, human security, the arms industry, and terrorism. more...	PSIIM020	20	Semester 2
The Foreign Relations of China and Japan in the Modern World The module looks at the history of China and Japan from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The attempts at modernisation, conflict between the two nations, their relationships with the Asian region and the United States are covered. Their contrasting attempts to develop in the postwar period are investigated. We also assess their current policies and the issues of importance to China and Japan in the twenty first century, and assess whether they can move beyond the legacy of this difficult history. more...	PSIIM026	20	Semester 2
Middle East Politics This module introduces students to the government and politics of one of the most interesting and frequently misunderstood regions in world politics ' the Middle East. The module examines the evolution of the modern Middle Eastern political system over the past century. Students will acquire the skills to analyse key issues in the politics of the region, including topical events such as the preponderance of ethno-sectarian violence and the rise of Islamist movements. Other key questions include the lack of democracy in the region and the creation of rentier economies in the Gulf. more...	PSIIM030	20	Semester 2
MA in International Relations Examination This is a generic exam for students registered on the MA in International Relations based around the core unit, International Relations Theory. more...	PSIIM200	20	Semester 2
MA in International Relations & European Studies Examination This is a generic exam for students registered on the MA in International Relations and European Studies based around the core units. more...	PSIIM202	20	Semester 2
International Relations Theory Understanding the competing theories of how international politics works is essential to understanding international politics itself. In fact, theories make our understanding of the world we are trying to explain easier because they tell us what we need to pay attention to, what we can ignore, and which factors will determine outcomes. This module will provide students with that essential grounding in International Relations theory, encompassing both the foundational theories of realism and liberalism, and contemporary debates about hegemony, neo-imperialism and post-positivism. The module is structured around the rationalist-reflectivist divide and starts with classical realism and neo-realism, and liberalism and neo-liberalism. It then explores the English School and constructivism before turning to more critical and reflectivist theories like post-colonialism, feminism and gender studies and post-structuralism. This module will be taught predominantly using lectures and seminars but will make use, where appropriate, of film and documentaries in order to explore different theoretical schools, both thematically and empirically. more...	PSIIM011	20	Semester 1
American Foreign Policy This module will use case studies of Southeast Asia, Central America and the Middle East to explore the reasons for American interventions and to assess their success or failure. It will offer an historical understanding of the assumptions and practices which lie behind contemporary US foreign policy-making. The module will introduce students to the institutions and processes involved in the making of American foreigh policy. more...	PSIIM032	20	Semester 2
Russian Foreign Policy The module concentrates on Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. It considers the internal and external determinants of foreign policy and looks at key policy issues and policy towards a number of important states and regions. more...	PSIIM008	20	Semester 2
International Organisations: Conflict and Development This module introduces to students the basic concepts of integration/disintegration, globalisation, regionalism and the purpose of the existence of and inter-relationship between international regional Organisations. It then goes on to examine the structure and functions of several major international organisations such as the United Nations, NATO, the EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, MERCOSUR, the AU, etc, and their role in international conflict and economic development with specific case studies. A brief coverage of International Financial Institutions such as IMF, World Bank, the WTO and the G8 will complement the main areas of study above. The style of the module consists of a series of lectures/seminars, class presentations, video showings and workshops. Although this is a mostly empirically based module, students will be expected to apply International Relations and Development theories which they will be studying alongside, in their other modules, as appropriate. more...	PSIIM009	20	Semester 1
International Politics Since 1945 This module is divided into two parts. The first focuses on the cold war and the second the post-cold war period. The module uses a series of case studies, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the break-up of Yugoslavia and the war on terror to highlight broader issues regarding the changing international political system. Diplomatic political history is the predominant discipline used on this module, but theoretical approaches are also adopted to help students understand the nature of the cold war and post-cold war systems. more...	PSIIM015	20	Semester 1

PSIPM

Analysing Media Discourses This module examines the relationship between language, images and social meaning. Media products from film and advertising to newspaper articles and even music are examined as `texts' that shape and are shaped by the socio-political reality. After discussing some of the main theories of textual analysis like semiotics, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis, we will adopt a hands on approach in order to demonstrate how the visual and linguistic techniques can advance our understanding of the processes of representation and communication of meaning. more...	PSIPM015	20	Semester 1
Media, Culture and Society Dissertation For students taking the MA in Media, Culture and Society. Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	PSIPM40X	60	Semester 2
Public Management: Theories and Change This module enables students to develop advanced understanding of the main theories, models and concepts used in the study of public management, the main debates in the field, and substantive knowledge of developments in public management in a variety of settings. Students who successfully complete this module will be able to demonstrate: a critical understanding of the main theoretical approaches used in the study of public management and organisational behaviour; familiarity with the main debates in the scholarly literature on public management; substantive knowledge of the theory and practice of the new public management; a critical understanding of public management reform in the United Kingdom and elsewhere; and familiarity with debates concerning the operation and impact of international organisations, including the EU, on public management at the national level. more...	PSIPM021	20	Semester 1
Public Policy: Theory and Analysis This module enables students to develop advanced understanding of the main theories, models and concepts used in the study of public policy, the main debates in the field, and substantive knowledge of public policy in a variety of settings. Students successfully completing the module will be able to demonstrate: - critical understanding of the main theoretical approaches used in the study of public policy - familiarity with the main debates in the scholarly literature on public policy - advanced knowledge of public policy and policy processes in a variety of national settings - familiarity with the main theories and debates relating to the operation and impact of international organisations, including the European Union, on domestic policy and policy-making processes. more...	PSIPM023	20	Semester 1
Political Economy of the Environment In this module, students will critically engage with mainstream political and economic assessments of environmental degradation and climate change by adopting a political economy approach. In coming to terms with these environmental threats, the module tries to reawaken a broader type of ethical, natural and social theorisation that defined an earlier political economy. This is not a module on environmental or resource economics, nor are students expected to have an economics background. Rather, this module tries to problematise social production as something much more than a series of market relations. It tries to develop a broader socio-cultural understanding of production that `de-naturalises' the way we view and exploit the natural world. more...	PSIPM022	20	Semester 2
Politics and Mass Media Working from the assumption that the mass media are an integral part of modern political life, this module examines the way in which politics is represented in the mass media and reviews critically the argument about 'bias'. It also explores the arguments around the ownership and control of mass media, the increasing use of the mass media by political parties and the changing relationship between citizens and politics engendered by new communication technologies. more...	PSIPM012	20	Semester 2
Media, Culture and Society Dissertation For students taking the MA in Media, Culture and Society. Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	PSIPM20X	80	Semester 2
Issues in Media and Cultural Politics This module explores key issues within media and cultural politics. The module is divided into separate blocks and spread over two semesters. Each block deals with different aspects of media and cultural politics, including identity and power, communication and culture. more...	PSIPM03Y	20	Year Period
Theories of Society and Politics This module introduces students to the fundamentals of modern social and political thought by means of in-depth study of key texts by leading thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth century. An emphasis is placed on classical social theory and liberal political theory as well as more recent departures from those traditions. Students will have an opportunity to read and discuss major works of social theory by Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu as well as works of political theory by J S Mill, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Iris Marion Young. During the module students will also have the chance to reflect on fundamental questions about the methodologies employed by social and political theorists and on problems associated with claims to knowledge and objective truth in these fields. more...	PSIPM003	20	Semester 1
History of Political Thought: Social Contract Theory This module examines in depth selected works of political thinkers who are seminal to the Western tradition of political thought, including Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. Their work will also be compared thematically, with a focus on ideas such as the social contract, political obligation, property, individual rights and freedom. The approach is analytical rather than historical and contextualist. The module's focus on the study and interpretation of key texts enables students to develop skills of textual analysis and critique. more...	PSIPM005	20	Semester 1
Theory and Practice of Policy Making in Britain This module will look at theories of policy making and relate them to recent developments in the policy process in Britain, using a case studies approach. The unit will consider some theories of decision making, such as the rational actor model, disjointed incrementalism, policy networks, bureaucratic politics. It will also examine broader issues of the relationship of power and economic forces to the decision making process. Finally, it will examine such issues as agenda setting, the importance of policy discourse and the role of ideas and belief systems in the policy making process. more...	PSIPM018	20	Semester 2
Review Paper (Mres) A research review paper of 6,000-9,000 words on a subject of your choice. more...	PSIPM04Y	20	Year Period
Multiculturalism This module looks at the responses in political theory to the rise of multicultural societies in Europe and North America since the end of World War II. The aim is to introduce students to a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives on multiculturalism and to facilitate critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of competing approaches. Theorists under examination will include: Parekh, Kymlicka, Taylor and Modood as well as major liberal alternative views; Barry, Rawls and Raz. The module will combine theoretical study with analysis of practical issues/case studies surrounding multiculturalism. Among the issues to be considered are the following: models of integration, group rights, institutional racism, Islamophobia, and the Rushdie affair. The module will also consider divergent policies adopted within European states (eg, France and Germany) and give attention to the attempts to operationalise multiculturalism in the UK in particular via the Parekh Report. more...	PSIPM026	20	Semester 2
Methods of Social Enquiry The module offers a basic training in social research methods, provided flexibly to meet different needs and interests. There are opportunities to learn skills in use of SPSS for statistical analysis of large datasets, interviewing, transcription, document analysis, research uses of electronic media, devising a research proposal, writing a research report and oral presentations. Students will learn to evaluate research methods from the perspectives of ethics, methodology and practicality. more...	PSIPM019	40	Semester 1
Politics and Public Affairs This module enables students to develop an advanced understanding of the theory and practice of public affairs, interest intermediation, and the strategies used by interest, advocacy groups and others to influence the political process. As well as covering the main debates in the academic literature, it draws directly on the experience of practitioners and offers unique insights into this under-studied area of politics. more...	PSIPM034	20	Semester 2
Regulation This module provides a foundation in the theory and practice of economic regulation, incorporating economic, business, legal and political science perspectives. The module is a research-led programme based on the research undertaken in the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and assumes no previous studies of economics. more...	PSIPM028	20	Semester 2
Online Journalism This module provides students a grounding in core journalism skills, with a special application to new and emerging media. Topics covered include: new forms of journalism, news sources and rich content production. Students will write and produce content for an online news platform. more...	PSIPM027	20	Semester 1
Broadcast Journalism This 40 credit module gives students a wide and detailed grounding in all aspects of television journalism and news production. Core topics include editing, camera work, sound and interviewing. Students produce a magazine-style TV show that is built around the video reports that they shoot and edit themselves. Students work both in the studio and on location. more...	PSIPM038	40	Semester 2
Practical Media The Practical Media module is taught at the EPIC (former Anglia) TV studios in Norwich. This is a state-of-the-art working TV studio (e.g making shows for BBC1). Students are given an introduction to all aspects of broadcast journalism, including camera and studio work, scripting, editing (using Apple's Final Cut Pro) and sound. Students produce short videos in small teams before creating this into a TV show (magazine format) in the main studio. The course is taught by leading experts in their field. Ian Masters presented BBC Look East for many years before moving into management including Director of BBC South. He was also Director of Broadcasting at the Thompson Foundation and has travelled all around the world training journalists. Mark Wells was a BBC journalist and producer for many years, before becoming a Director at Televirtual (making TV shows such as Knightmare). He is currently Director of the EPIC TV studios. Further information is available: www.ueamedia.wordpress.com, www.epic-tv.org. more...	PSIPM029	20	Semester 1
Studying Media This module is intended to provide an introduction to the key study skills in media and cultural studies. It will be particularly useful for students unfamiliar with the British university system and its expectations. Students will apply theoretical and methodological approaches to contemporary media texts and discuss recent scholarship on changes in the global media and cultural landscape. In addition to introducing key study skills and debates in the discipline, the workshop sessions will provide a supportive environment for critical reflection and intercultural communication. MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY STUDENTS WITH A NON-UK FIRST DEGREE ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE THIS MODULE UNLESS A WAIVER IS OBTAINED FROM THE COURSE DIRECTOR. THIS MODULE IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS TAKING THE MA IN MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY AND THE MA IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLITICS. more...	PSIPM017	20	Semester 1
Practical Media The Practical Media module is taught at the EPIC (former Anglia) TV studios in Norwich. This is a state-of-the-art working TV studio (e.g making shows for BBC1). Students are given an introduction to all aspects of broadcast journalism, including camera and studio work, scripting, editing (using Apple's Final Cut Pro) and sound. Students produce short videos in small teams before creating this into a TV show (magazine format) in the main studio. The course is taught by leading experts in their field. Ian Masters presented BBC Look East for many years before moving into management including Director of BBC South. He was also Director of Broadcasting at the Thompson Foundation and has travelled all around the world training journalists. Mark Wells was a BBC journalist and producer for many years, before becoming a Director at Televirtual (making TV shows such as Knightmare). He is currently Director of the EPIC TV studios. Further information is available: www.ueamedia.wordpress.com, www.epic-tv.org. more...	PSIPM020	20	Semester 2
Public Choice Public choice theory applies economic models to explain political phenomena. This module, jointly taught by lecturers from philosophy, politics and economics, studies the concepts of market failure and political failure, problems of collective action, rational choice models of democracy and bureaucracy, social choice theory, the motivation of actors in the political process, and the evolution of conventions and norms. The political context is the move from a welfare state to a market society. The emphasis is on the critical appraisal of alternative approaches to public choice and policy issues. more...	PSIPM014	20	Semester 2
Public Management: Theories and Change This module enables students to develop advanced understanding of the main theories, models and concepts used in the study of public management, the main debates in the field, and substantive knowledge of developments in public management in a variety of settings. Students who successfully complete this module will be able to demonstrate: a critical understanding of the main theoretical approaches used in the study of public management and organisational behaviour; familiarity with the main debates in the scholarly literature on public management; substantive knowledge of the theory and practice of the new public management; a critical understanding of public management reform in the United Kingdom and elsewhere; and familiarity with debates concerning the operation and impact of international organisations, including the EU, on public management at the national level. more...	PSIPM042	20	Semester 2
New Media and Society For better or worse, new digital technologies are hyped at having revolutionised society. This module will provide students with an introduction to the ways in which the internet and other digital technologies are (and are not) affecting society from theoretical and empirical perspectives, and how society shapes technology. Topics covered include: the evolution of the internet; the "network society"; regulating new media; the radical internet and terrorism; social networking, blogs and interactivity; culture and identity in the digital age; and how the internet affects politics and the media. more...	PSIPM007	20	Semester 1
Better Worlds? Utopias and Dystopias Would an ideal society have no more crime? Who would be wealthy or powerful? Would politics be outlawed? Do utopians try to impose their views on the rest of humankind? Do the flaws in human nature justify the pessimism of dystopian writers? This unit compares selected utopian and dystopian texts produced during the last six centuries. Themes will include property, social control, gender, morality and politics. Another dimension of the course is to consider the purpose of utopian thinking and the historical role of utopian ideas in social theory and social reform. more...	PSIPM002	20	Semester 2

LCS-M

Technological Tools for Translators The aims of this module are: to introduce students to the principles of Translation Project Management, Terminology Management, Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) and Machine Translation (MT); to raise awareness of the range of tools available to translators; to enable students to find and exploit Internet translation resources; to provide hands-on-experience of CAT and MT tools; and to develop awareness of the advantages and limitations of CAT/MT in various contexts. more...	LCS-MT12	20	Semester 2
Dissertation Communication and Language Studies The dissertation is a compulsory requirement for all taught MA programmes. Work on the dissertation is begun at the end of the second teaching semester. The choice of research topic for the dissertation is made by the students in consultation with their course convenor and/or supervisor (students normally receive up to four hours of supervision in all over the period of supervision). more...	LCS-MD1X	50	Semester 2
Language Issues in A Global Multilingual Context	LCS-MC02	20	Semester 2
Dissertation Language, Society & Culture The dissertation is a compulsory requirement for all taught MA programmes. Work on the dissertation is begun at the end of the second teaching semester. The choice of research topic for the dissertation is made by the students in consultation with their course convenor and/or supervisor (students normally receive up to four hours of supervision in all over the period of supervision). more...	LCS-MD0X	90	Semester 2
Translation and Theory This module explores ways in which concepts and notions develop into theoretical approaches and translatorial practices but also how practice establishes theoretical positions. Each weekly seminar will focus on key concepts and their use in the existing bibliography on translation, while the practical tasks will give to students the opportunity to apply these concepts to their own translation work. more...	LCS-MA03	20	Semester 1
Conflict in Intercultural Communication The module introduces students to the study of intercultural conflict, through case studies of miscommunication at the levels of international political terminology, pragmatic strategies, the public representation of cross-cultural conflicts and of migration/multicultural conflicts. The module enables students to apply analytical methods to conflicts in intercultural communication on the basis of applied linguistics (contrastive semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics) and cultural studies. By the end of the course students will have an understanding of the linguistic dimensions of conflicts (and their mediation) in intercultural communication. more...	LCS-ML23	20	Semester 1
Dissertation MAATS The dissertation is a compulsory requirement for all taught MA programmes. Work on the dissertation is begun at the end of the second teaching semester. The choice of research topic for the dissertation is made by the students in consultation with their course convenor and/or supervisor (students normally receive up to four hours of supervision in all over the period of supervision). more...	LCS-MD2X	90	Semester 2
Intercultural Communication in Practice This module explores the issues fundamental to intercultural communication (IC) in practical contexts. The theoretical component of the module examines the different ways of thinking about effective communication in a variety of work-based environments. We will also relate theory to the practice of intercultural communication in contextualised workshops. During these workshops, invited practitioners will introduce students to how IC operates in specific organisations, e.g. in government agencies, in multilingual business management, etc. The module is relevant to those wishing to pursue careers in international management and relations, multilingual business and international development; it is also of interest to those who wish to become more effective communicators in other professions such as translation, interpreting, education and cultural mediation. more...	LCS-ML22	20	Semester 2
Linguistic Communication Among Cultures There is more to linguistic communication than just knowing the vocabulary and grammar of a language; speakers need to know the different ways of using the language they speak ' what to say, how to say it and when to say it. But language is also intimately involved in our notions of culture, our thought processes and, perhaps, even in our sense of reality. Indeed, the very act of linguistic communication itself both creates and sustains our expectations, beliefs and moral values about our world and lives. This module explores a number of issues relating to this reciprocal relationship between language and culture. Linguistics, characterised as the scientific study of language, tends to focus on the formal features of language structure, treating it as an autonomous object. There is more, however, to linguistic communication than just knowing the vocabulary and grammar of a language; speakers need to know the different ways of using the language they speak - what to say and how to say it. These assumptions vary from culture to culture as often shows up in the various forms of miscommunication that occur when we talk with speakers from different linguistic backgrounds. From a broader perspective language is intimately involved in our notions of culture - imagine, for example, expressing, discussing or learning about religious or political beliefs without language - our thought processes and, perhaps, even in our sense of reality. Indeed, for some, the notions of language and culture are so inseparable that they are referred to collectively as languaculture. more...	LCS-ML26	20	Semester 2
Intercultural Communication - Understanding Differences in A Global World This module is an introduction to some of the fundamental concepts associated with theories of intercultural communication. Since norms of behaviour are culturally defined and varied, the beliefs and values which underlie a culture's worldview will be examined from a variety of perspectives. Indicative topics are expected to include how culture is defined; models of explanation of cultural difference (such as the theories of Hofstede and Tropenaars); notions of identity (personal, group, national) and 'otherisation'; stereotypes and prejudice; verbal and non-verbal communication; miscommunication and intercultural conflict; acculturation and culture shock, etc. The module is relevant to students from a variety of backgrounds and with varied interests and will provide useful background for the module 'Intercultural Communication in Practice'. more...	LCS-ML25	20	Semester 1
Conceptual and Discursive Metaphors Across Cultures This module focuses on the role of metaphor in intercultural communication. We look at the ways in which important political, economic and socio-cultural issues are framed in terms of conceptual and discursive metaphors, some of which are culture-specific, whereas others can be found across several cultures or are even universal. The aim is to explore issues involved in the linguistic transposition and dissemination of cognitive frames and scenarios into other languages and cultures. Receptive knowledge of at least one language other than the mother tongue is required. more...	LCS-MC04	20	Semester 2
English, Communication, Culture The module is intended to refine linguistic and academic competences (oral and or written communication, control of academic registers), and to explore how English operates in a variety of cultural contexts (including the media, critical debate). Skills covered include seminar and presentation skills, note-taking, academic writing, self-directed study and research skills, with application to the theme of communication and language and materials specifically relevant to MA students. An important aim of the module is to familiarise students with the conventions of English academic life and the environment of the university. more...	LCS-MC01	20	Semester 1
Translation in Context This module explores the issues fundamental to translation as process and product in practical contexts, examines theories of equivalence and textual structure in different language-cultures, and applies theory to specialised practice, specifically political and legal texts, publicity texts, multimedia texts, and website location. more...	LCS-MA01	20	Semester 1
The Power of Discourse: Representation and Interaction Language occurs in specific social situations, among specific social actors and for a variety of purposes. In turn particular uses of language have the power to shape social encounters and relationships and to help construct and maintain specific ideologies and perspectives. Discourse analysis aims to uncover the ways in which language in use is tied to its social context. This approach is thus at the heart of the analysis of human interaction in society. This module provides the students with analytical tools that can be fruitfully applied to the study of a variety of texts (e.g. media, advertising, politics, education, business, creative writing) and for a variety of purposes (e.g. developing critical understanding, uncovering ideological bias, reproducing texts successfully in translation and achieving the desired impact through one's own writing). Presentations of the main concepts and examples are followed by practice sessions in which students have the opportunity to analyze a variety of texts both for class discussion and for their final project. more...	LCS-ML13	20	Semester 1
Translation Work Experience This module is aimed at MA Translation students with no (or little) previous translation work experience, and students who have experience of professional translation but would like the opportunity to review their practices by reflecting on, and critically documenting, the processes involved. It is based on work on authentic translation assignments negotiated with commercial clients and is very practical: it will promote hands-on sensitisation to aspects of professional commercial translation, to problems involved in translating to specifications, producing and presenting a product of professional standard, to techniques of translation and to the use of reference materials and support resources. It will enable you to apply your analytical and linguistic skills, and to develop a range of key practical skills, including research skills, project and time management, reflective and review skills. more...	LCS-MA02	20	Semester 2
Research Methods The module is designed to familiarise postgraduate students with research resources and basic aspects of research methodology (e.g. access to, and use of, sources and resources, collection, analysis and presentation of materials and data). It is taught over two semesters: the first focuses on seminar-related activities, the second on dissertation-related work. It is assessed by an oral exam on a pass/ fail basis after the end of the second semester. The module is obligatory for all LCS full-time postgraduate students on taught MA programmes and open only to them. more...	LCS-MR1Y	10	Year Period
Research Methods Part I This module is the first part of a course designed to familiarise postgraduate students with research resources and basic aspects of research methodology (e.g. access to, and use of, sources and resources, collection, analysis and presentation of materials and data) and focuses on seminar-related activities. It is taught in the first semester of the first year of study. The module is compulsory for all LCS part-time students on MA Taught programmes and open only to them. Co-Requisite: LCS-MR02. more...	LCS-MR01	5	Semester 1
Research Methods Part II The module is the second part of a course designed to familiarise postgraduate students with research resources and basic aspects of research methodology (e.g. access to, and use of, sources and resources, collection, analysis and presentation of materials and data) and focuses on work for the dissertation. It is taught in the second semester of the first or second year of study and assessed by an oral examination on a pass/fail basis after the end of the second semester. The module is obligatory for all LCS part-time students on MA taught programmes and open only to them. Pre-requisite: LCS-MR01. more...	LCS-MR02	5	Semester 2

PHI-M

Philosophy Dissertation (90 Credits) For students taking the MA in Social Philosophy. Students are required to write a dissertation of a length as specified in their MA Course Guide on a topic approved by the Course Director or other authorised person. more...	PHI-M10X	90	Semester 2
Supervised Study Module Four This module provides for supervised study on the same model as Philosophy Supervised Study 1, for students taking two such modules in the Spring semester. Except in the case of Part-Time students, this module can only be taken concurrently with Philosophy Supervised Study Unit 3. This module may also be taken in the form of language skills for original research (e.g. Ancient Greek, German) in which case language exercises and/or translation tasks may replace some or all of the essay work. Training in logic may also take this form. more...	PHI-MA04	20	Semester 2
Philosophy Postgraduate Workshop The weekly workshop enables students to present their own work in short presentations and to contribute to discussions on each other's work. There will also be meetings where research methods and tactics are discussed, such as journal publication. Each student must produce a presentation and meaningfully contribute to the meetings in order to pass the module. more...	PHI-M09Y	10	Year Period
Language and Mind The module will explore the philosophy of Noam Chomsky, the leading linguist of the last century. The module will be taught via a small tutorial group that will explore a central theme in the development of Chomsky's position each week. Topics will include: the refutation of behaviourism, the computational basis of language, the creativity of linguistic performance, internalism vs externalism, the concept of human nature. As well as the tutorial, students are encouraged to attend the lectures for the undergraduate module, Language in Mind, that will cover some of the same issues. more...	PHI-M011	20	Semester 1
Classical Philosophy Workshop The module takes the form of a research-led, workshop-style, seminar based on an area of Classical Philosophy in which the module convener has current research interests. It will include detailed attention to selected texts and issues. The topic will be chosen by the lecturer. Recent topics have included (a) Mind and Perception, with detailed attention to Aristotle's "De Anima"; and (b) God creation and design, with detailed attention to Plato's Timaeus and texts in Aristotle and Plotinus. This module is linked to the advanced undergraduate module, Classical Philosophy Special Subject. more...	PHI-M018	20	Semester 2
Supervised Study Module Three This module provides for supervised study on the same model as Philosophy Supervised Study unit 1, and is available as the first such module to be taken in the Spring semester of the programme. more...	PHI-MA02	20	Semester 2
Supervised Study Module Two This module provides for supervised study on the same model as Philosophy Supervised Study 1, for students taking two such modules in the Spring semester. Except in the case of Part-Time students, this module can only be taken concurrently with Philosophy Supervised Study module 1. This module may also be taken in the form of language skills for original research (e.g. Ancient Greek, German) in which case language exercises and/or translation tasks may replace some or all of the essay work. Training in logic may also take this form. more...	PHI-MA03	20	Semester 1
Supervised Study Module One The module is designed to train the student in research techniques in philosophy and to develop advanced knowledge and understanding in some clearly defined area of the discipline which may or may not have been studied before, eg. at BA level. The student is assigned to work with a tutor with research expertise in the chosen area. The topics covered, and the manner in which they are covered, will be tailored to the student's prior experience in the field. Typically, three essay questions, with bibliographical research, will be set for work during the semester. more...	PHI-MA01	20	Semester 1
Topics in Political Philosophy This module will be devoted to the interpretation and discussion of important, advanced texts in modern political philosophy, in particular texts by John Rawls, perhaps the most significant political philosopher of the late twentieth century. Rawlsian political philosophy of liberalism will be tested with regard to its soundness in relation to equality, community/society, and ecology. Consideration will be given to looking at what political philosophy might viably challenge or replace liberalism, which tends to be the 'dominant paradigm' in political theory and practice today. Students will also have an opportunity to apply abstract philosophical ideas to current political controversies. more...	PHI-M008	20	Semester 2
Philosophy of Literature Seminar The topics of this module will be chosen from amongst the following: the definition and purpose of literature; the nature of literary language, fiction, fictional characters, narrative, genre, literary criticism and interpretation; the relevance of author's intention, the role of the reader, and the relationship between literature which is read and that which is heard and seen; aesthetic evaluation, taste, subjectivity and objectivity; whether literature can convey truth and knowledge, and the relationship between aesthetic judgement and ethics. Students submit two essays of 2,500 words each. more...	PHI-M009	20	Semester 1
Philosophy and Literature Seminar The main aim of this course is to explore philosophical themes which arise naturally in the reading of literature, and literary issues which arise naturally in the study of philosophy. Literary texts may well include a selection from: Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, Conrad and Beckett. Philosophical texts may well include a selection from: Plato, Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Goethe, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Two important themes for discussion will be the rise of physical science and its impact on philosophy and literature; and how different conceptions of philosophy and literature affect the way in which they are written (or not written). Assessment will be by two coursework essays. more...	PHI-M016	20	Semester 2

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