Applications are now being received for the Masters of Arts in Philosophy and Literature, commencing September 2009. This exciting new one-year programme (or two years part-time) is designed to offer graduates of either philosophy or literature (English and other literatures) the opportunity to study the many areas of overlap between the disciplines. The central questions concern the status of the text, the status of the world represented in the text, and the relationship between the reader, the text, the author, and that world.
The programme will comprise three philosophy modules, as well as three option modules from existing MA modules in literary theory from the School of English, Drama and Film, and the School of Languages and Literatures. The three philosophy modules comprise (a) the compulsory Philosophy and Literature, and then (b) TWO more, chosen from:
- Phenomenology of the Stranger
- Philosophy and the Emotions
- Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
The three modules between them will cover the history and theories of the relationship between philosophy and literature, and one area – ethics – where engagement with that relationship has been particularly productive.
The students must then choose THREE of the following elective modules:
- GER 40040. Translation theory
- FR 40040. Structuralism and its critics
- FR 40280. Critical approaches to word
- ENG 40720. Concepts of Modernity
- ENG 40940: Theory of Gender & Sexuality
- ENG 40950: Race, Sex & Nation
- ENG 40930: Gender & Text in History
- ENG 41190: Old Worlds, New Worlds
- ENG 41140. Peripheral modernisms
- GRC 40180. The Writing of Warfare
In addition to the six modules, students have to work closely with a staff member to write a dissertation of 12-15,000 words on a relevant topic.
For more information, please contact the manager of the UCD School of Philosophy, Helen.Kenny@ucd.ie