Duration one year full-time or two-three years part-time
You will be required to construct a course in negotiation with your supervisor by drawing on the research areas flagged in the list of directed study topics on our postgraduate study website. You will write three 5,000-word essays and a 20,000-word dissertation. All students are required to attend at least one of the core methodological and theoretical modules on the MA Modern and Contemporary German Studies, and to take generic training modules in the Graduate School.
Duration one year full-time or two years part-time
This programme gives you the opportunity to study two modern languages at masters level. It is ideal for candidates who hope subsequently to register on a research degree programme. You will undertake a training course in research methodology and presentation and two courses of supervised guided reading in agreed fields of study within the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, leading to the preparation of a dissertation of 30,000 words. Applicants will normally hold a degree in the two modern languages to be studied at masters level.
We offer research degree supervision in a very broad range of areas from the Medieval period to the present day, with particular expertise in the following areas: Linguistics and Medieval Studies; Constructions of National Identity from the 18th century to the present day; Myth in German Literature from the eighteenth century to the present day; Romanticism; 19th Century Narrative: Novels and Novellen; Culture and Politics in the Weimar Republic; Modernism and Postmodernism; Feminist Criticism and Recent Women’s Writing; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Postcolonialism and Cross-cultural Studies; German Cinema; Media Studies; Autobiography in East Germany Intellectuals since the Wende; The Culture of the New Right in Contemporary Germany; and Contemporary German Historiography. You will be required to take generic training modules in the Graduate School.
We like our postgrdaute students to participate as much as possible in our research activities. We regularly host conferences here in Nottingham and encourage our research students to get involved. There is also a fortnightly departmental research seminar with papers from postgraduates, members of staff and visiting speakers.