MSc in Children's Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Programme structure

The programme is structured around a series of mobility periods across two years where you study at the programme universities for one semester. The periods of mobility are designed to enable you to engage with a variety of perspectives on the three core themes of the programme and promote valuable knowledge and practical skills-based outcomes that will feed into future career opportunities.

During year 1 you will undertake a series of core courses which reflect the main themes of the programme and methods of enquiry delivered in Glasgow in semester 1 and Aarhus in semester 2.

In year 2 you will choose a specialist pathway in Tilburg, Nantes or Wrocław, and will complete a work-based learning placement.

The final mobility period can be spent with one of the five consortium partners, depending on your chosen topic of dissertation.

The programme also includes an optional summer school at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver (Cananda), or at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz & Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany) at the end of year 1.

• Semester 1: September - December (Glasgow): Historical and Critical Perspectives
• Semester 2: January - May (Aarhus): Children’s Literature in a Mediatised World
• Summer (optional): June-August (Vancouver and Germany)
• Semester 3: September – January: Pathway 1 (Nantes) - Management and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Pathway 2 (Tilburg) - Transcultural Trajectories OR Pathway 3 (Wrocław) - Childhood and Film
• Semester 4: February - July (Glasgow, Aarhus, Nantes, Tilburg or Wrocław): independent study; dissertation

Year 1

Semester 1

University of Glasgow

• Children’s Literature: Critical Enquiry
• Texts for Children and Young People
• Cross Boundaries: Children’s Literature and Other Media (delivered online by Tilburg)
• New Media for Children and Young Adults (delivered by UBC) OR
• Literature and the Publishing Industry for the Early Years (delivered by Nantes)

Semester 2

Aarhus University

• Children's Literature and Childhood
• Children's Literature Text and Media
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Principles, Practice, and Current Trends in Academic Research in Children's Literature (delivered by UBC)
• Life Writing and Fan Fiction (delivered by Tilburg)

Year 2

Semester 3

Nantes University

• Introduction to Business and Sustainability Management for Cultural Institutions/Cultural Projects
• Marketing for Cultural Institutions
• Organisational Behaviour, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Cultural Institutions
• Children's Literature for a Diverse World (delivered by Glasgow)
• Placement with publishers/libraries OR
• Selection of taught courses relating to entrepreneurship

Tilburg University

• Canon Formation
• Children’s Literature in Translation
• Children's Literature in Context: Reception and Reviewing
• Children's Literature for a Diverse World (delivered by Glasgow)
• Placement with publishers/libraries/literary institutions

University of Wrocław

• International Children's and Family Film
• Representations of Children and Childhood in Film
• Children’s Film Culture
• Children's Literature for a Diverse World (delivered by Glasgow)
• Placement with film festival

Summer Schools (optional)

University of British Columbia

• Writing, Publishing and the Book Trade for Children and Young Adults
• Historical Collections and Archives
• Illustrated Literature and Other Materials for Children and Young Adults
• Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz & Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main

• Diversity, Celebrity, and New Media. New Approaches to Cultural Studies
• Digital Methods and Research on Media for Young People
• History, Style and Statistics. Computational Methods to Understand Old and New Children’s and Youth Literature