Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totaling 180 credits.
Core Module
- Dissertation MA Critical Theory (60 credits)
Required Modules
You are required to take:
- Main Currents in Critical Theory (15 credits)
- Foundational Texts in Critical Theory (15 credits)
- Research Methods in Critical Analysis (15 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, You will take 75 credits of optional modules as deemed appropriate by the programme convenor in any given academic year. These may include;
- Text, Image, Object & Gesture in Twentieth- Century French Writing (15 credits)
- Media Aesthetics (15 credits)
- Myth after Slavery (15 credits)
- 19th-century Continental Philosophy (15 credits)
- Writing the Body in Literature and Culture (15 credits)
- Documenting the Camp: Testimony, Memory, Legacy (15 credits)
- Decoloniality and the Global South (15 credits)
- Thinking Cinema (15 credits)
- On Speed. Accelerating Culture Since the 19th Century (15 credits)
- Illness Narrative as Life Writing (15 credits)
- Cultural Memory (15 credits)
- The Other Side of Reason': Madness/Philosophy/Literature (15 credits)
- Theorising Contemporary Violence (15 credits)
You may also take optional language modules for Graduate students in the King’s Language Centre to the value of 15 credits in addition to normal tariff of 180 credits
If you are a part-time student, you will take:
- Year 1 - 60 credits earned through 2 x 15 credit compulsory modules and 30 credits of optional modules.
- Year 2 - 120 credits earned through 1 x 15 credit compulsory module, 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module and 45 credits of optional modules.
Teaching methods - what to expect
If you are a full-time student, we will provide six hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 34 hours of independent study.
If you are a part-time student, we will provide two to four hours of teaching through lectures and seminars each week, and we will expect you to undertake between 16 and 18 hours of independent study.
For your dissertation we will organise a workshop and provide you with an additional four hours of supervision.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written Dissertation
- Assessed Essays
- Class presentation
- Research methodology exercise
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and a dissertation. Forms of assessment may typically include essays, class presentations and a research methodology exercise.