Университет Суонси, MA, Современные кельтские исследования

Students take 3 core modules during part 1, and 3 elective modules. Part 1 core modules: Inventing traditions: the modern celtic experience; study and research skills in modern celtic studies; research folder; part 1 elective modules: altering images of the Welsh industrial town: Swansea, 1780-1880; popular politics and protest in Wales, 1780-1850; sport and identity in Britain's 'celtic Fringe'; celtic borders, celtic frontiers; empire and enlightenment: Scottish society and the making of modern Britain; from Vesuvius to Snowdon: the evolution of travel, curiosity and aesthetics; Ireland after the famine, 1850-1925; Swansea and the sea; devolution in comparative perspective; writing Northern Ireland since 1968; Irish poetry of the mid-century; Welsh identities: literature and nationhood; ‘American Wales’: writing the transatlantic; women writing modern Wales; Dylan Thomas and the idea of Welsh writing in English; locating Wales: comparative perspectives; Welsh / English literary translation; English / Welsh literary translation; Llenyddiaeth yr Ugeinfed Ganrif (20th-century literature); Beirniadaeth Lenyddol (literary criticism); Barddoniaeth yr Oesoedd Canol (poetry of the middle ages); Ryddiaith a Diwylliant yr Oesoedd Canol (prose and culture of the middle ages); medieval Welsh literature (in translation).

A good Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.

This course is explicitly inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and comparative in approach; many of its elements focus particularly on Wales, Ireland, and Scotland; there is also considerable encouragement and opportunity to engage in the comparative study of other celtic lands: Brittany; Cornwall and the Isle of Man; it concentrates more on the period after the dark ages: early modern and modern periods of history; but there are opportunities for studying medieval history and literature; it examines critically the very notions of ‘celticity’ and celtic identity, which are contested and problematic.