英语语言文学硕士旨在让您探索语言与文学之间的相互联系。它将从广泛的角度（理论和应用，共时和历时）为您提供全面的英语语言功能理解，并引导您探索与社会，历史和历史相关的多种文本。它们产生的政治环境。此外，文学硕士将为您提供知识基础和学术技能，为您进行独立研究做好准备。该硕士课程适合在大学阶段学习英语和/或文学课程的学生，以及其他学习过TESOL等相关学科的学生。那些希望继续学习的人士和那些希望获得进一步资格并调查该领域最近和当前发展的英语教学者尤其感兴趣。
The English Language and Literature MA explores the interconnections between language and literature. Our course will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic), as well as leading you to explore a wide array of texts in connection with the social, historical and political circumstances from which they emerge. It will also equip you with the intellectual perspectives and scholarly skills to conduct independent research.The MA is for you if you've taken English language andor literature modules at undergraduate level, or studied allied disciplines such as TESOL. It's of particular interest if you're wishing to pursue further study, or if you're teaching English and wish to gain a further qualification and investigate current developments in the field.If studying the degree full-time, you'll complete 180 credits in one academic year. If part-time, you'll normally complete 180 credits in two academic years. You'll study five core modules (including a 60-credit dissertation on a topic of English language andor literature), as well as two modules from the list of options. The two core modules Writing the Self, and Themes and Problems in Modern and Contemporary Literature examine classic and contemporary critical texts on literature in relation to history, the visual image, gender, psychoanalysis and post-colonialism while exploring issues such as life-writing, autofiction, embodiment, biography, memory, otherness, and the non-human. The two core modules Multilingualism, Concepts and Applications, and English Worldwide examine linguistic variation and contact in English and other languages from a wide range of perspectives, both historical and present day.