Children's Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship (Multiple degree)
Children's Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship is a two-year Erasmus Mundus International Master’s program initiated and taught by a consortium of five universities. With this program you deepen your knowledge of children’s literature, media and culture from an international perspective and a multidisciplinary approach. You reflect on current theory and research as well as the challenges and controversies around children’s and young adult literature within the context of a globalizing and digitalizing world.
Program and courses
The Master's program in Children's Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship (CLMCE) combines courses on literary history, childhood studies, cultural studies, film studies, book promotion, and media studies. These courses are linked to the specific expertise of one or more consortium partners: the University of Glasgow (Scotland), Aarhus University (Denmark), Nantes University (France), the University of Wroclaw (Poland), and Tilburg University.
- Follow courses at the University of Glasgow, Aarhus University, and a third university. The third university depends on the pathway you choose:
- Management and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Nantes University)
- Transcultural Trajectories (Tilburg University)
- Film and Participatory Culture (University of Wroclaw)
- Benefit from living and studying in different countries while building an international network and earning a multiple degree*.
- Become a leader in your field by integrating theoretical and empirical approaches, combined with work placements related to the pathway you choose.
- Become fully equipped to create innovative strategies to promote reading, improving literary competence and incorporating media and digital technology in learning and teaching.
Besides this international triple degree program, Tilburg University also offers a Dutch-taught Master’s track Jeugdliteratuur.
* you will receive a joint or a triple degree, depending on the pathway you choose
The program in more detail
Year one
You start your studies at the University of Glasgow. Here, you take courses on the history and development of children’s literature. You also learn about critical approaches to children's texts and take a course on the relationship between children’s literature and other media (from Tilburg University) and one on literature and the publishing industry for the early years (from Nantes University).
In semester 2, you will go to Aarhus University, where courses focus on childhood images and children’s literature within a mediatized world. The regular program is complemented by two external courses on "Life Writing and Fan Fiction" (Tilburg University) and "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Principles, Practice, and Current Trends in Academic Research in CL" (University of British Columbia).
Between semester 2 and 3 you can attend a summer school at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a focus on writing, illustrating, publishing and the book trade, as well as on historical collections and archives, or a summer school co-organized by the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Goethe University in Frankfurt Am Main (Germany), on the topics of new approaches to culture studies, digital methods and research on media for young people, and computational methods to understand CL.
Year two
In semester 3 you follow courses at the university connected to the pathway you chose.
The pathway options are:
- Management and Cultural Entrepreneurship (Nantes University)
- Transcultural Trajectories (Tilburg University)
- Film and Participatory Culture (University of Wroclaw)
The program at Tilburg University encompasses the courses “Canon Formation”, “Children’s Literature in Translation”, and “Children’s Literature in Context: Reception and Reviewing”, as well as an internship.
In semester 4 you work on your thesis. Supervision of your thesis writing process will be offered by a teacher from one of the partner universities.
After successfully finishing the program at Tilburg University, you are awarded a triple degree, shared with the University of Glasgow and Aarhus University.
You will find a detailed description of the courses and required literature in our course catalog.
Please note: programs are subject to change. We advise you to look up the current program in OSIRIS Student at the start of the year.
Career prospects
The International Master in Children's Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship is intended for students who wish to pursue a career in the areas of children’s literature, media and education, regarding a wide range of literacies, and as preparation for further academic study through a PhD program.
The integration of theoretical and empirical approaches, combined with work placements related to the pathway you choose, allows you to become a leader in your field, creating innovative strategies to promote reading, improving literary competence and incorporating media and digital technology in learning and teaching.
Application and admission
- You are eligible to apply if you have an Academic Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences subject.
- In addition to a relevant degree, you must meet a minimum level of English language proficiency.
- Motivation, references, grades and extracurricular activities are also taken into account by the Applications Committee.
More detailed information can be found on the CLMCE-website.
Deadlines
- For Erasmus Mundus scholarship students: 26 January 2024
- For self-funded students:
- Students from outside the UK: 26 July 2024
- UK students: 16 August 2024
Program offers are made on a rolling basis.
Procedure
Applications must be submitted online to the University of Glasgow, which coordinates the International Master in Children's Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship.
More information
More information about the program and the different pathways, consortium partners, admission requirements, tuition fees, and the application procedure can be found on the CLMCE-website.
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