One-Year Master Programme in African Literature and Postcolonial Studies, 60 ECTS-credits
The programme consists of five obligatory courses and one optional course. In the first semester of the programme all students take a 15 ECTS credit course in the Modern, Post-modern and Postcolonial in African Studies and two 7.5 ECTS credit courses: the Contemporary African Novel, and African Poetry and Drama. During the second semester of the programme students write the Masters thesis which is 15 ECTS credits, and study one obligatory 7.5 ECTS credit course: Scholarly Writing in Literary Theory and Criticism, as well as one optional 7.5 ECTS credit course.
Objectives of the Programme
After the completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- apply in-depth knowledge and understanding of the development of African literature and culture from a postcolonial perspective in the form of individual literary and cultural text analyses of with a high degree of theoretical awareness of the relationship between language, literature and culture,
- demonstrate intimate knowledge and awareness of current research issues, concepts and theories in African studies and postcolonialism, as well as the ability to critically analyse these concepts and theories as scholarly methods of analysis
- independently plan and carry out a well-defined literary or postcolonial research task in African literature, culture or society which demonstrates theoretical insight of one’s own ideological and ethical values,
- demonstrate the oral and written ability and proficiency necessary to argue effectively in clear academic English for complex interpretations and analyses of African postcolonial and literary, cultural and critical texts and to actively be able to interact with others in a critical and constructive environment
