Course Overview

With an overall focus on literature, politics, and social change, our MA English Literature will equip you to engage with the interface between literature and society. By reading and contextualizing a wide range of texts within their critical, cultural and historical contexts, you will be encouraged to evaluate the ideas of others and develop your own critical perspectives and areas of specialized knowledge. You will develop skills and knowledge through a range of teaching and learning methods and by producing essays, presentations, annotated bibliographies, review essays, dissertation proposals, and a major research project in the form of a dissertation. The skills you learn will provide new directions for future employment and form the basis for further study. The course focuses on three periods of literary history: the Renaissance, the €˜long nineteenth century, and the 20th/21st century. Each of the three period-based modules is structured around ideas of politics and social change. The fourth module is a research methods module, which will equip you with the skills needed to complete your dissertations.

General Eligibility

A good honors degree (or equivalent), normally in a related subject. Applicants with professional experience are also encouraged to apply.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 ( Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognized by Anglia Ruskin University.