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MA English Literature

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Arts)

Learning outcomes

All MA programmes and modules in the School of English require the following generic intellectual abilities to:

- demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and advanced techniques relevant to the discipline and/or to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of concepts, information and techniques at the forefront of the discipline;
- exhibit high levels of skill in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;
- demonstrate a strong understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and in developing professional relationships with others;
- formulate proactively ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these;
- evaluate critically and creatively current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline;
- research, organise and complete pieces of assessed written work attached to the modules chosen, and an extended research project.

Skills specific to the MA in English Literature are:

- the identification of past and ongoing critical debates in the field of English Literature;
- the development of the student's own knowledge, understanding and ideas regarding English Literature;
- the bespoke designing of their own specialised or wide-ranging MA programme through selective choice between the option modules available to them;
- the identification of central issues regarding the individual module topics;
- the ability to refine a research project / dissertation topic from the wide field of study available to them.

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able to:

- show an appropriate and informed appreciation of various strands, genres, major authors and movements in the areas of English Literature most relevant to their specialised interests.
- demonstrate an awareness of established and emergent preoccupations and issues in approaching English Literature, and Literary Study more broadly
- have a reflective understanding of relationships between the different strands of their specialised or wide-ranging MA programme assembled from the very wide range of option modules available to them
- research, organise and complete pieces of assessed written work attached to the modules chosen, and an extended research project (consisting of two pieces of written work, of 2000 and 10000 words respectively).

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity;
- evaluation of their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- to engage critically in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating received opinion;
- making sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

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