入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：Good honours degree in an appropriate subject.
英语要求： IELTS 7.0 (with at least 6.5 in each section)
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 £12,200
课程特征 Course Features：
This programme focuses on the transnational and multicultural networks of Atlantic writing, ranging across English, Spanish, and French speaking countries. Particular consideration is given to points of intersection between Atlantic cultures and such processes as travel, translation and hybridity.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Semester one
Theory and Practice in Transatlantic Comparison - Semester 1
Here is the schedule for seminars for semester one. For each seminar there is a list of readings - those marked with an asterisk are the core readings for that week.
2. Transatlantic Studies: Exception or Inclusion - Dr Andrew Taylor
3. Forms of Comparison 1 - Dr Andrew Taylor
4. Nation Theory - Dr David Farrier
5. Nation and Cosmopolitanism - Dr Andrew Taylor
6. Imperialism and the Postcolonial - Dr David Farrier
7. Atlanticism - Dr Keith Hughes
8. Travel Theory, ‘Travelling Theory’ and Transatlantic Travellers as Theorists - Professor Susan Manning
9. Forms of Comparison II: Comparatism and American Studies - Dr Keith Hughes
10. Translation - Dr Maria Filippakopolou
11. Style and Genre - Professor Susan Manning
Semester two
Core Themes and Texts in Transatlantic Study - Semester 2
Here is the schedule for seminars in semester two.
1. New Starts and Old Burdens - Professor Susan Manning
2. Routes and Roots - Dr David Farrier
3. Conversations and Correspondences - Dr Tim Milnes
4. Fashioning Spanish America - TBA
5. Corresponding Nostalgia, Buenos Aires and Paris - Dr Iona Macintyre
6. Tourists and Pilgrims - Professor Susan Manning
7. Tourists and Colonials - Dr Andrew Taylor
8. Migration and Loss - Dr Claudia Nocentini
8. Family Connections - Dr Andrew Taylor
9. The Immigrant as Hermaphrodite - Dr Claudia Nocentini
10. Transculturaltion to Creolisation - Dr Lorna Burns
评估 Assessment：
The coursework taken in the autumn and spring semesters is assessed by the following marked written assignments:
Two essays of 4,000 words written in relation to the autumn and spring semester core theory courses.
Two essays of 4,000 words written in relation to the autumn and spring semester option courses and submitted at the end of the first and second semesters, respectively.
One bibliographical assignment for the semester 1 Research Skills and Methods course.
A research proposal, posted and peer-reviewed online, and preliminary research plan, topic, title and working bibliography for the semester 2 Research Problems and Methods course. For students proceeding to the Diploma, this will be marked as a self-contained exercise; for students proceeding to the MSc, this will be the first stage in a dissertation project. This component of the course is marked on a pass-fail basis.
The four coursework essay assessments are weighted at 25% each. Students must gain an overall coursework pass of 50% or above in order to proceed to the dissertation. The MSc degree is awarded on the basis of the mark gained for the dissertation (but note the information given below on the award of Distinctions).