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Overview
This module offers a series of weekly encounters with the literary and performative city. Students will study a range of literary and theoretical texts, and walk London, travelling along its transport connections, listening to guides, looking around them and engaging self-reflexively with the meanings and imperatives found in the city.
Key Facts
This London: Walking the City course from Queen Mary University of London aims to:
- This module asks you to think about the different ways that we might define a city and to explore different perspectives on London inflected by mobility, migration, class and gender.
- In particular, the module asks you to consider pedestrian experiences and the theatre of the street from the early modern period to the present day.
- Through reading a range of literary and theoretical texts, you will develop your understanding of the role of literature, performance and cultural institutions in producing and contesting urban experience.
Programme Structure
- The module also aims to explore texts in their geographical and spatial context, and to this end teaching includes guided walks and visits to key sites of cultural production.
- You will develop skills of literary analysis in relation to place, both through writing and through seminar discussion of required reading and site visits.
- Assignments will also enable you to reflect on and articulate your own experiences walking as well as developing skills of planning and execution of writing and sound production, creative and critical response to texts and places, and independent research.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 19 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 92
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Credits
15 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Liberal Arts Literature View 66 other Short Courses in Literature in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
GPA 3
English requirements
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 92
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Other requirements
General requirements
We accept a range of qualifications:
- if your home institution uses the four-point Grade Point Average (GPA) scale, we usually require a 3.0 GPA
- if your home institution uses the letter scale, you will need to have a B+
- if your home university uses the UK scale, we require a 2:1 average
- if your home university uses a percentage scale, we usually require a minimum 65% average
- If you hold a degree from a majority English speaking country plus Canada you may use this degree to satisfy the English language requirements for entry, provided the degree was completed no more than 5 years before the start date of the course to which you are applying.
- An IELTS score of 7 or higher, for the majority of courses
- An IELTS score of 6.5 or higher for science-based courses
- A TOEFL iBT score of 92 or higher
- CET4 - 550 or CET 6 - 493
- A degree taught in English within the last five years*
Tuition Fee
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International
2500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2500 GBP per year during 19 days. -
National
2500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2500 GBP per year during 19 days.
If you choose to study for 2 sessions you automatically receive a tuition fee discount
- One Session £2500
- Both Sessions £4900
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
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