PostgraduateFull-time

MA Literary Studies

Level
Postgraduate
Duration
1 year
Mode
Full-time
Location
United Kingdom

Overview

This degree will suit you: If you are fascinated by particular developments in English Literature and want to deepen your knowledge. If you want to enhance your understanding of particular topics or periods in literary history. If you wish to cultivate your existing skills as a reader and writer. If you want to develop your research and analytical skills for future work in academia. The MA in Literary Studies provides several modules on fascinating topics and periods of literary history, including Medieval Lives, Queer Fiction, Romanticism's Radical Cultures, Victorian Popular Fiction, Postmodern Genres, and many more. An important part of the course is the writing of a 15,000-word Dissertation on a specialist topic chosen by you in consultation with a specialist supervisor. We will take care in assigning you a supervisor whose interests match your own as closely as possible. Our Staff Our nationally significant research forms the basis of our teaching and throughout your studies you will be taught by some of the UK’s leading scholars in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. They are either qualified to PhD level or have commensurate professional experience. Our lecturers either hold or are working towards a Higher Education teaching qualification, and most academic staff also hold Fellowships with Advance HE. Staff research interests are as broad and dynamic as our curriculum, and recently the majority of our research activity was judged either internationally excellent or world-leading (REF 2021).

Entry requirements

Degree2:1 · Subjects: relevant subject
Other conditionsportfolio · 2:1 Bachelors (Hons) degree in a relevant subject together with submission of a satisfactory writing portfolio.

English language requirements

IELTS7.0 overall, no part below 7

IELTS 7.0 with minimum 7.0 in each component, or equivalent Back to the top Cou

Start dates

September

Campus

  • Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
East MidlandsEast of EnglandLondonNorth EastNorth WestNorthern IrelandScotlandSouth EastSouth WestWalesWest MidlandsYorkshire and the HumberAberystwyth University

Where you will study

Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom

Study in CeredigionWales

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