MA in Black British Writing, Drama and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London

MA in Black British Writing, Drama and Performance

Length:
1 year full-time or 2 years part-time.

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This programme starts in September 2013.

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Entrance requirements:

You should normally have an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant subject area. If your first language is not English you need a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (including 7.0 in the written element) or equivalent. Find out more about our English Language requirements.

Funding:

Find out about funding opportunities for home/EU applicants, or funding for international applicants.

Careers:
This programme provides a strong grounding in the principles of research and of learning through independent research. It is particularly suitable if you wish to pursue further academic work or careers in the creative, educational and cultural fields.

Skills:
You will develop transferable writing and oral skills at a high academic level, demonstrating the ability to think and work in an interdisciplinary manner using a range of methodologies. Your ability to work collaboratively and to facilitate and participate in group discussions will be enhanced. You will also develop skills in identifying the socio-cultural, historical, political and literary issues that shape and impact upon contemporary literary and performance texts.

Fees:
Please see Tuition fees.

Staff research interests:
Please see Staff research interests.

Contact the departments:
Contact Dr Deirdre Osborne

About the departments:
Theatre and Performance, Caribbean Studies Centre

This unique programme is the first of its kind globally. It offers a comprehensive and historicised engagement with the field of Black British writing. We trace the scope of diasporic and aesthetic routes and roots that inform traditions of black-centred performance and poetics shared by the richly diverse texts that we study.

The programme will bring together a vibrant, path-breaking learning community to engage in new ways the emergent conceptual and theoretical material that will develop and enrich our exciting, new field. It aims to nurture academics who might teach and research internationally.

What you study

The MA draws upon the expertise of literary, drama and theatre specialists from the Departments of Theatre and Performance and the Centre for Caribbean Studies. There are two compulsory core courses and two options which students are expected to choose:

Compulsory core courses

I. Historicising the Field
II. Interculturality, Text, Poetics
III. Dissertation

Option courses

1. Genre and Aesthetics
2. Caribbean Women and Representation
3. Any other available option in the Departments of Theatre and Performance and ECL (please see web pages).

As part of the course, you are expected to read widely and to attend a range of performances across genres: theatre, spoken-word, performance poetry, and film that relate to Black British cultural production.

“A Master’s degree programme that enables the serious study of the creative and artistic history and achievement of black British novelists, poets, short story writers, essayists, and playwrights.” (Professor R. Victoria Arana, Howard University, Washington DC)

Mojisola Adebayo in 'Moj of the Antartic', photo: copyright Del LaGrace Volcano

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