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• Dissertation
American Studies
|MA
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenSTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
Core programme content
• Contemporary North America• Dissertation
Indicative non-core content
• The British Empire
• Cinema and the City
• Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865
• Film & American Culture
• History of the Built Environment
• History of Sports in America
• Music & American Culture
• Poetry Place & Perception
• Internship Module
• Globalization, development, and the Americas
• Inter-American politics in the 20th and 21st Century
• United States and Latin America in the 19th Century
• Writing Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World and the Extended Caribbean
• US Foreign Policy
• US Religious History
FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT
Taught core and optional modules assessed mostly by coursework, with a few optional modules having an unseen examination, plus a dissertation. KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dr Uta Andrea Balbier, Institute for North American Studies
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Many MA students go on to pursue research, others develop their skills in North American institutions, or else in teaching, journalism, new media and at other universities.
Year of entry 2012
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