2019/20 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA English Literature
| Programme code: | MA-ENGLIT | UCAS code: | |
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| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr David Higgins | Contact address: | D.Higgins@leeds.ac.uk |
This programme is available to UK and EU applicants for part time study (over 2 academic years). Please contact pgtenglish@leeds.ac.uk for further information.
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Good honours degree (First or 2:i or its equivalent) in English Literature, or a degree scheme including English Literature, or in a related subject.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of English
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of English
Programme specification:
This is one of the longest-established and best-recruiting taught MA programmes in English Literature.
The programme provides students with the opportunity to study English Literature at postgraduate level. Students select from a wide variety of specialist options reflecting the historical and geographical range of literature in English. Areas in which the School is particularly strong include Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary Literature, as well as Postcolonial Studies, American Literature and Culture, and Creative Writing. Student will be able to have the opportunity to draw on the exceptional richness and diversity of expertise and the wide range of intellectual and social activities available within one of the largest and most successful Schools of English in the country.
Students write a research project / dissertation on a subject of their choice (within any area of English Literature) with the assistance of specialist supervision and the research resources of the University's Brotherton Library.
This distinctive programme allows students to develop an existing enthusiasm for English Literature and to explore further those areas of the subject which may not have figured significantly in their undergraduate programme. It affords an excellent platform for work at doctoral level.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates willl be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| ENGL5841M | Studying English: Research Methods (NOT RUNNING IN 2021/22) | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5842M | Research Project | 60 credits | 1 Feb to 30 Sep |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study between 60 and 90 credits of optional modules available to this programme as listed yearly. Some modules are subject to availability - see individual descriptions.
| ENGL5105M | Caribbean and Black British Writing | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5117M | Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5217M | Arthurian Legend: Medieval to Modern | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5343M | Africas of the Mind | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5345M | Reading (with) Psychoanalysis | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5346M | So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5722M | Writing about Death in Nineteenth-Century America | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5737M | Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5760M | The Enigmatic Body of Modernism | 30 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
| ENGL5817M | Shakespeare's Tyrants | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5828M | Global Indigeneity | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5830M | Apprentices to Life: The Nineteenth-Century Bildungsroman | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5831M | Feeling Time | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5833M | The Magic of Mimesis | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5834M | Romantic Ecologies | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5836M | Turks, Moors, and Jews: Staging the Exotic in the Renaissance | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5839M | Imperial Masculinities: Late-Victorian Romance Fiction | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5845M | Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5847M | War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5850M | Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1968 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note that this is an indicative module list. A different selection of modules is offered each year.
Elective modules:
Candidates may take up to 30 credits in approved modules outside the School of English.
Last updated: 17/05/2021 16:24:36
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