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English Literature – (M.A.)
Cardiff University
Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy
| Location: | Cardiff / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Cardiff University
A dynamic, full-time one year programme with a choice of open and specialist pathways, enabling you to put together the MA that best suits your personal and professional interests. Students take two courses per semester, each assessed by a 4,000-word essay. After Easter, students write a 16-20,000-word supervised dissertation.
Pathways:
* Advanced Studies in English Literature – the Open Pathway
* Editorial and Intertextual Studies
* Medieval Studies
* Shakespeare
* 19th Century Studies
* 20th Century Studies
Each pathway draws from a pool of module options.
The following lists are indicative:
* Violent Death in Renaissance Drama
* Bibliography and Textual Studies
* American Drama
* The Myth of King Arthur
* Reading Theory
* Shakespearen comedy
* British Romanticism and Satire
* Victorian Visual Cultures
* Postcolonial Theory
* The Novel and the 19th Century
* Women's Writing, 1970's to the present
* Constructing Shakespeare
* Shakespeare in Theory
* Gothic and Gender
* Welsh Fiction in English: Colonial and Postcolonial
* The Popular Novel in the Age of Austen
* Tolkien’s Medievalism
* Middle English Romance and Its Afterlife
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A first or Upper Second class Honours degree or equivalent.
Suitable for graduates in English Literature and Humanities.
In addition to the application form we require the following supporting documents:
* Two academic references
* Copies of two essays on a literary topic (undergraduate essays are welcome)
* Photocopies of all relevant supporting documentation (e.g. degree certificates, transcripts)
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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