MA Literature, Film and Visual Culture: University of Sussex

About the programme

This MA is associated with the Centre for Visual Fields .

The MA in Literature, Film and Visual Culture is designed for the growing number of postgraduates with intellectual interests cutting across the disciplines of English, Media, Film and Image Studies. The programme explores the convergence between literature and visual culture from the late 18th-century to the present, and addresses the theoretical as well as the historical interconnections between literary and visual representation.

In recent years this MA has offered courses in: Psychoanalysis and the Image, The Visual Culture of Romanticism, Theorising Modernism: The Avant-Garde in Literature and Film, Queer Visual Culture, 1969 to the Present Photography and Fiction in the 20th-Century Image and Text.

Admission requirments

UK entrance requirements

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject.

Overseas entrance requirements

Sussex receives applications from all over the world and is therefore very experienced in assessing the qualifications offered by students from outside the UK.

For information on some of the most common international qualifications that meet their general entry requirements, please refer to the table in their International students section.

English language requirements

IELTS 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each section. Internet TOEFL with 100 overall including 27 in both Speaking and Writing. For more information, refer to English language requirements.