MPhil Optional Modules 2020-21

***Please note that the website course information is being updated over the summer 2020 and is currently work in progress.***

MPhil students choose four optional modules over the course, two modules during Michaelmas and a further two modules during Lent. You may choose modules that follow on from your previous studies, or you may take up a discipline that is entirely new to you, if you are prepared to undertake the necessary background reading. 

It is recommended that  at least one of your modules is closely related to the field in which you intend to write your dissertation. Full details of each module will be given during the Induction Programme in October, and there will be opportunity to discuss your choices with module leaders as well as the MPhil Director before making a final decision.

Modules options change a little each year and it is occasionally necessary to change the content of modules. The following modules are planned:

Michaelmas 2020:

• Capitalism and Society in Latin America
• The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture​
• Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America
• Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Latin America

Lent 2021:

• Cinema and the Politics of Representation in Latin America
• Development and Policy in Latin America 
• Indigeneity in Latin America
• Interpretations of Latin America 
• Present Pasts, Past Presents: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American Writing
• The Caribbean in World History*

*As this is a module borrowed from History, there is a limit on the number of CLAS students who may take it. If you have a particular interest in this module, you should let the MPhil Director know your reasons for wishing to take it, and priority may be given to those for whom it would be central to their dissertation topic.