Bournemouth University - MA English & Literary Media

Bournemouth University

MA English & Literary Media

This special course examines how media and technological advancements provide authors and communication professionals with interactive forms of storytelling while de-prioritizing the idea of printed text and examining it alongside narrative in other media. Learn to analyze a variety of texts from literature, film, television, the internet, and popular culture critically while connecting those texts to other disciplines.
Examine how historical and contemporary texts have been adapted for various platforms, as well as how paratext and extra-textual materials affect audience expectations and experiences.
Examine how censorship, free speech, and other concepts are defined in the context of current cultural debates.
Learn how to think rigorously, critically, analytically, and creatively so that you can apply what you know to real-world situations.

Entry Requirements

  • A Bachelors Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

  • If English is not your first language you'll need IELTS (Academic) 6.5 with a minimum of 6.5 in writing and 6.0 in speaking, listening and reading. 

Career Prospects

Students can combine their literary analysis skills from their undergraduate studies with a variety of new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of English in a variety of media in this course.
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Roles performed by our graduates include:

  • Scriptwriting

  • Print journalism

  • Radio production

  • Corporate communications.

Course Details

On this course you will be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.

The following units will be studied over three semesters for the full-time option, or over four semesters for the September part-time option.

Year One

Core units:
Narrating Identities: Self, Text & the World
Markets & Audiences
Interactive Storytelling
Publishing Cultures and Materialities
Culture & Controversy
Mediating the Nation
Dissertation (academic) OR Major Project (creative)

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