PgDip English - Literary Studies
Course Overview
This advanced English Literary Studies program empowers students to build deep expertise by pursuing specialized pathways or crafting a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum that transcends traditional literary boundaries. It is designed to cultivate critical thinkers and communicators who are highly sought after in a diverse range of professions. Graduates are exceptionally well-prepared for successful careers or for further academic pursuit at the PhD level.
Key Program Highlights
- Pursue specialized guided pathways or design a flexible, interdisciplinary program of study
- Develop high-level analytical, research, and communication skills valued by employers
- Excellent graduate employment prospects in publishing, media, PR, teaching, and the arts
- Strong foundation for students aiming to continue their research at the PhD level
- Benefit from Queen's unique career development initiatives like Degree Plus and Researcher Plus
Course Overview
This advanced English Literary Studies program empowers students to build deep expertise by pursuing specialized pathways or crafting a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum that transcends traditional literary boundaries. It is designed to cultivate critical thinkers and communicators who are highly sought after in a diverse range of professions. Graduates are exceptionally well-prepared for successful careers or for further academic pursuit at the PhD level.
Key Program Highlights
- Pursue specialized guided pathways or design a flexible, interdisciplinary program of study
- Develop high-level analytical, research, and communication skills valued by employers
- Excellent graduate employment prospects in publishing, media, PR, teaching, and the arts
- Strong foundation for students aiming to continue their research at the PhD level
- Benefit from Queen's unique career development initiatives like Degree Plus and Researcher Plus
Requirements
Modules
- Literary Research Methods
- Dickens in Context
- Discourses of Crime and Deviance
- Shakespeare and Asia
- Magic and Science in Medieval Writings
- A Space for Radical Openness? Writing the Margins in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- Incorrigibly Plural
- Special Topic Irish Writing
- Contemporary Northern Irish Literature
- African Fiction: Race, Rites and Religion
- Irish Women's Writing
- Fictions of Female Community, 1660-2007
- Romantic-era Magazine and Print Culture
- Shakespearean Childhoods
- Migrating Identities
- Love Poetry
- Popular Fiction at the Fin de Siècle
- Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
