Critical Methodologies

Our Critical Methodologies MA is a unique interdisciplinary course focused on the study and applications of critical theory. Students get to explore some of the major modern schools of thought and contemporary theories and practices of interpretation, from Formalism and Structuralism through Barthes and textuality to queer theory, psychoanalysis and feminism, and materialist and postcolonial theories.

The course gives students the opportunity to follow their own interests from a wide range of optional modules across humanities and social sciences, all of which draw on the varied and lively research culture of King's in these fields.

Leads to careers in universities, the media, arts, teaching and journalism.

Key benefits:

• Unique interdisciplinary course focused on the study and applications of critical theory.
• Wide range of optional modules across humanities and social science disciplines.
• Located in the heart of London.

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours in a humanities discipline. We may consider other qualifications if you can demonstrate relevant experience.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Research Methodology: Reading Practice/Reading Theory (40 credits)
• Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take 80 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Cinema & the City (20 credits)
• Text, Image, Object & Gesture in Twentieth- Century French Writing (20 credits)
• The Moving Image in Art (20 credits)
• Reconfiguring Film Theories & Philosophies: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (20 credits)
• Biopower: The Fate of an Idea (20 credits)
• Theorizing Literature across Cultures: Contemporary Debates (20 credits)
• Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring (20 credits)
• Perversion: Theory, Literature, Film (20 credits)
• Modernity & the City (20 credits)
• Thinking Cinema: Theory, Philosophy, Ethics (20 credits)
• On Speed: Accelerating Culture Since the 19th Century (20 credits)
• Surrealism & Visuality (20 credits)Illness Narrative as Life Writing (20 credits)Experimental Film & Philosophy (20 credits)
• Thinking the Contemporary: Fiction & Theory after 1999 (20 credits)
• A language module from King's Modern Language Centre (20 credits) subject to approvals

If you are a part-time student, you will take Research Methodology: Reading Practice/Reading Theory, along with 40 credits of optional modules from the list above in your first year. In your second year you will take your dissertation module and a further 40 credits of optional modules. King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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