Unit name | Unit code | Credit points | Status | Teaching Block |
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduction to Literary Research | ENGLM3029 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-1 |
Dissertation | ENGLM0006 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Teaching block 1 Pathway units (20 credit points) from the following: | ||||
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts | ENGLM0037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Romantic Poetry and Poetics | ENGLM3009 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Modernism, Experimentation and Form | ENGLM0039 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Teaching block 2 Pathway units. Two units (40 credit points) from the following categories. Take one unit from each category A, B or C: | ||||
Category A: | ||||
Hamlet: Text and Interpretation | ENGLM3012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Literature 1940-1970: Writing After War, After Modernism | ENGLM0035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Half-day Conference | ENGLM3017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Category B: | ||||
Intertextual Shakespeare | ENGLM3013 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Victorian Literature and Place | ENGLM0034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Contemporary Literature | ENGLM0038 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Half-day Conference | ENGLM3017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Category C: | ||||
The Gothic | ENGLM0040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Half-day Conference | ENGLM3017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Teaching block 2 (20 credit points) from the below, or another unit from the second list above: | ||||
Arthurian Literature | AFACM1005 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Charles Dickens | ENGLM3019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Introduction to Old English | AFACM1012 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
James Joyce | ENGLM0050 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Literature and Medicine | ENGLM3022 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Modernism and the Body | ENGLM0042 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Shakespearean Tragedy: Textual and Literary Criticism | ENGLM3025 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Postcolonial Imaginings | ENGLM3024 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
The Spanish Civil War in British and American Writing | ENGLM0045 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction | MODLM2034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Victorian Afterlives | ENGLM3035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
Writing for Art | ENGLM3018 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 |
MA English Literature | 180 |
The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds. An exit award with Merit or Distinction may be permitted where students are prevented by exceptional circumstances from completing the intended award.
The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:
Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.
** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.