Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Text, Culture, Theory: London and Urban Modernity (30 credits)
- The Modern Archive Workshop: Text and Artefact (30 credits)
- Research Methods and Practice (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- Modernist Soundscapes (15 credits)
- Romantic and Victorian Pasts (15 credits)
- Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writing (15 credits)
- Modernist Mindscapes (15 credits)
- Man, Woman and Machine 1750-1940 (15 credits)
- Queer American Poetry (15 credits)
- On Speed. Accelerating Culture since the 19th Century (15 credits)
- An Introduction to the Health Humanities (15 credits)
- Unnatural Worlds: Literature and Ecology (15 credits)
- Irish Literary Revivals 1890-2000 (15 credits)
- Realism and its Others in the Long Twentieth Century (15 credits)
If you are a part-time student, you will take the two core modules in your first year: Text, Culture, Theory: London & Urban Modernity' (30 credits) and The Modern Archive Workshop: Text and Artefact (30 credits). In your second year, you will take your two 15-credit option modules, the Research Methods & Practice module (30 credits) and the Dissertation module (60 credits).
Teaching methods - what to expect
If you are a full-time student, we will give you four to six hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 26 hours of self-study per week. If you are a part-time student, we will give you two to three hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars in your first year and two to four hours in your second, and we will expect you to undertake 13 hours of self-study per week in your first and second years. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026