English Literature

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The programme is mostly comprised of optional courses, enabling you to tailor your own Masters programme to your area of interest. All students will study our 20-credit core English Literature Research Training Course. You then take five more 20 credit courses and one 60 credit dissertation. The structure for full-time students is as follows:

Semester 1 Core course: English Literature Research Training

Two optional courses Semester 2

Three optional courses

SummerDissertation

The two semesters of coursework are followed by one term of supervised work towards a dissertation of up to 15,000 words which you will submit at the beginning of September. The topic normally arises out of the work of the previous two semesters, but the choice is very much open to the student’s own initiative. Your supervisor will help you to develop the proposal and plan the most appropriate reading and methodology.

It is also possible to write a dissertation made up of creative writing with a critical component. Normally this possibility is only available to students who have taken the Creative Writing Fiction Workshop (cross-discipline) as one of their options.

Part-time students

Take the English Literature Research Training Course and three 20 credit courses in their first year of study, and two 20 credit courses and the dissertation in their second year.

Pathways If you have already identified your area of interest, there are six different pathways through the MLitt in English Literature at Glasgow

English Literature [MLitt] English Literature: Fantasy [MLitt] English Literature: Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture [MLitt] English Literature: Modernities: Literature, Culture, Theory [MLitt]English Literature: Romantic Worlds [MLitt] English Literature: Victorian Literature [MLitt] English Literature: American Modern Literature [MLitt]

Each pathway will give you a different mix of core and optional courses.