Modules
Professional development modules

You will take one of the following two modules (worth 20 credits each):
Mastering the Arts: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research 20 credits
This module has been developed to introduce you to a range of research techniques and methodologies. It will also help you develop a variety of valuable transferable skills for your future career.

You will achieve:

greater confidence in dealing with original research
a recognition of the huge range of approaches that can be used to address research questions.
We build on the research skills you have already developed during both your undergraduate degree and discipline-specific MA modules. The emphasis is on:

ensuring you are possessed of a range of practical ways to approach research
making you think about the nature of your discipline-specific approaches within a context of growing interdisciplinarity.
You will have the chance to consider topics as varied as:

academic publishing
digital transformations
use of illustrations in dissertations.
You will also have the opportunity to hear academics from across the Faculty talk about the problems they have confronted and how they overcame them.

This module is worth 20 credits.

Mastering the Arts introductory video 

Arts in Society 20 credits
We will help you to apply your arts MA across society to enhance your career and contribute to wider society.

We'll demonstrate how the arts can be used to:

transform society, politics and culture
enhance the careers of arts and humanities MA students.
You'll be able to explore, explain and then detail how your disciplinary skills can impact upon wider issues to emphasise the applicability of the arts and humanities. From the role of the scholar activist to understanding ‘knowledge transfer’ and ‘public engagement’, you'll develop professional skills in preparation for a career within academia or across a range of sectors.

You will:

harness the ways in which the arts and humanities enable us to think differently and to innovate
work on issues of research, networking, grant-writing and cultural exchange
learn how to engage, communicate and create.
This module is worth 20 credits.

Subject specific modules

This is a flexible course, which allows you to solely take English literature modules, or to incorporate some modules from elsewhere in the school if you wish.
Literature: 1500 - The Present modules (20 credits each):
Literary Histories
Literature in Britain Since 1950
Modernism and the Avant-Garde in Literature and Drama
Place, Region, Empire
Poetry: Best words, Best Order
Speculative Fictions
Textualities: Defining, making and using text
Dramatic Discourse
Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Screen
Riotous Performance: Drama, Disruption and Protest
If you would like to take modules from elsewhere in the school, you can take modules from the representative list shown below:
English Language and Applied Linguistics modules (20 credits each):
Cognition and Literature
Consciousness in Fiction
Drama and Creative Writing modules (20 credits each):
Creative Writing Conventions and Techniques
Writing Workshop: Fiction
Writing Workshop: Poetry
Learning to Publish: Contemporary Forms & Practices
Learning to Read: Criticism for Creative Writers
Dramatic Discourse
Medieval Language and Literature modules (20 credits each):
The History of the Book: 1200-1600
Middle English Romance
Reading Old English
Reading Old Norse
Research Methods in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies

Dissertation

You will complete a 60-credit dissertation:
English Literature MA Dissertation