BSc (Hons) Πληροφορική (Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη)
Canterbury, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
BSc (Bachelor Επιστημών)
ΔΙΆΡΚΕΙΑ
1 έτος
ΓΛΏΣΣΕΣ
Αγγλικά
ΡΥΘΜΌΣ
Πλήρης απασχόληση, Μερικής απασχόλησης
ΠΡΟΘΕΣΜΊΑ ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΉΣ
ΠΡΩΙΜΌΤΕΡΗ ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΊΑ ΈΝΑΡΞΗΣ
ΔΊΔΑΚΤΡΑ
EUR 18.600 / per year
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Στην Πανεπιστημιούπολη
Εξερευνήστε τον πλούτο και την ποικιλομορφία της Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας από ένα ευρύ φάσμα περιόδων, πολιτισμών και ειδών. Ενισχύστε τις δεξιότητές σας, αναπτύξτε την εξειδίκευσή σας και διευρύνετε τις κριτικές και θεωρητικές σας γνώσεις.
Βυθιστείτε στα θέματα που έχετε επιλέξει και δημιουργήστε ένα εξατομικευμένο μάθημα που ταιριάζει στα ενδιαφέροντά σας.
Γιατί να μελετήσετε μαζί μας Αγγλική και Αμερικανική Λογοτεχνία
- Λογοτεχνική και θεωρητική μελέτη αιχμής: Θα εργαστείτε μαζί με κορυφαίους ερευνητές παγκοσμίως με τεχνογνωσία που κυμαίνεται από το μεσαιωνικό έως το σύγχρονο
- Διδασκαλία νέας λογοτεχνίας και νέων θεωριών: Εξερευνήστε διάφορα θέματα όπως νέες μοντερνιστικές σπουδές, εγχώρια λογοτεχνία και αποαποικιοκρατική γνώση, παγκόσμια γραφή και περιβάλλον και το νέο μυθιστόρημα του Brexit.
- Κάντε τη φωνή σας να ακουστεί: είστε στην πρώτη γραμμή της συζήτησης στη ζωντανή, σίγουρη και αφοσιωμένη ερευνητική μας κοινότητα
We have a range of subject-specific awards and scholarships for academic, sporting and musical achievement.
Stage 1
Advanced Research in Literary Studies
Stage 2
Διατριβή: GPMS
Programme aims
This programme aims to:
- extend and deepen through coursework and research your understanding of a body of literature in English, with special emphasis on modern and postcolonial literature, and literary and critical theory
- enable you to develop a historical awareness of literary traditions
- develop your independent critical thinking and judgement
- introduce you to bibliographic methods and scholarship and foster in you the research methods that facilitate advanced literary study
- provide a basis in knowledge and skills if you intend to teach English and American literature, especially in higher education
- develop your understanding and critical appreciation of the expressive resources of language
- offer opportunities for you to develop your potential for creative writing (where such a module is taken)
- offer scope for the study of literature within an interdisciplinary context, notably that provided by history
- develop your ability to argue a point of view with clarity and cogency, both orally and in written form.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
You will gain knowledge and understanding of:
- authors and texts from British, American and postcolonial literature
- the principal literary genres, fiction, poetry drama and other kinds of writing and communication
- literatures in English from countries outside Britain and America
- traditions in literary criticism
- the challenges of creative writing (where such a module is taken)
- terminology used in literary criticism
- the cultural and historical contexts in which literature is written, published and read
- critical theory and its applications
- literary criticism as a practice subject to considerable variation of approach
- inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to the advanced study of literature
- research methods.
Intellectual skills
You develop intellectual skills in:
- the application of the skills needed for advanced academic study and enquiry
- the evaluation of research findings
- the ability to synthesise information from several sources to gain a coherent understanding of theory and practice
- the ability to make discriminations and selections of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge
- the exercise of problem-solving skills.
Subject-specific skills
You gain subject-specific skills in:
- enhanced skills in the close critical analysis of literary texts
- informed critical understanding of the variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of literature
- the ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to advanced English studies
- sensitivity to generic conventions in the study of literature
- well-developed linguistic resourcefulness, including a grasp of standard critical terminology
- articulate responsiveness to literary language
- appropriate scholarly practice in the presentation of formal written work, in particular in bibliographic and annotation practices
- an understanding of how cultural norms and assumptions influence questions of judgment.
Transferable skills
You will gain the following transferable skills:
- developed powers of communication and the capacity to argue a point of view orally and in written form, with clarity, organisation and cogency
- enhanced confidence in the efficient presentation of ideas designed to stimulate critical debate
- developed critical acumen
- the ability to assimilate and organise substantial quantities of complex information
- competence in the planning and execution of essays and project work
- enhanced skills in creative writing (where the relevant module has been taken)
- the capacity for independent thought reasoned judgement, and self-criticism
- enhanced skills in collaborative intellectual work
- the ability to understand, interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical positions and weigh the importance of alternative perspectives
- research skills, including scholarly information retrieval skills
- IT skills: word-processing, the ability to access electronic data.
Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching; as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.
How you'll study
Teaching and assessment
Assessment is by a 5000-word essay for each module and a 15,000-word dissertation.


