Universities United Kingdom University of Bristol Courses MA English Literature

MA English Literature
at University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 31,300
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5 TOEFL: 85

Program Overview

The MA in English Literature aims to deepen your passion for literature while developing the rigorous specialist skills essential to postgraduate-level research. With the help and support of a distinguished English department, we aim to provide a stimulating and challenging intellectual experience in a friendly, supportive environment.

The programme offers four pathways, which build on the core research strengths of the department:

Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
Romantic and Victorian Literature
20th Century and Contemporary Literature
Literature and the Environment.

If you wish to focus on a particular period you may follow a single pathway. Alternatively, if you want to broaden your engagement with English literature, you may choose no pathway, and combine optional units to suit your interests.

All students are taught the specialist skills required for postgraduate-level research and the practical skills that academic life demands. Everyone is expected to enter fully into the wider academic community of the department and the University.

Course Content
Year 1

Unit name
- Introduction to Literary Research
- Dissertation
Teaching block 1 Pathway units (20 credit points) from the following:
- Modernism, Experimentation and Form
- Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts
- Romantic Poetry and Poetics
- Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives
Teaching block 2 Pathway units. Choose two units (40 credit points) from the following list.
Select from:
- Hamlet: Text and Interpretation
- Literature 1940-1970: Writing After War, After Modernism
- Half-day Conference
- Intertextual Shakespeare
- Victorian Literature and Place
- Contemporary Literature
- The Gothic
- Writing in the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Uranium
- Animal Planet: Humans and other animals in modernity
- Teaching block 2 additional Units (20 credit points)
- Charles Dickens
- Literature and Medicine
- Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction
- Writing for Art
- Supervised Individual Study
- The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe
- The Cultural Imagination of Gender
- Rewriting the Bible
- The History of the Language of English Literature
- Personal Option Unit 1
- Personal Option Unit 2
Entry Requirement
Applicants who hold a bachelor's degree from an accepted Indian university with a minimum of GPA of 6/10 or 60% will be considered for admission to a master's degree (the requirement will depend on your undergraduate university and the programme you have applied for).
Applicants to our Law programmes can be considered with minimum grades of 55-60% from an accepted Indian university.
Applicants who hold a first class master's degree from a prestigious university will be considered for admission to PhD study.

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£31300 per year

Career Prospect

Students who complete the MA programme in English Literature have been successful in obtaining employment in the media, journalism, publishing, the theatre, arts administration and teaching, as well as in industry, commerce, law, computing and social work. Many English MA graduates continue their studies by moving on to MPhil/PhD programmes.

Cost Of Studying At University of Bristol

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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MA English Literature at University of Bristol