MLitSt Literature (four-year integrated masters)

University of Essex
Postgraduate Master of Literature with Honours – MLit (Hons) Full-time 4 Years English literature and creative writing

A-Level Entry

ABB - BBB

UCAS Points

120 - 128 points

About this course

You’ve read the classics, but you want a fresh take on literature, old and new. Perhaps you want to explore particular genres, themes or periods of literature in more depth; or perhaps you want to discover that your new favourite author is someone you’ve never heard of before. Studying literature widens your horizons, sharpens your critical skills, develops your writing ability, and introduces you to the great cultures, thoughts, ideas and imaginations of the world.

Studying at Essex will challenge and revolutionise the way you think about literature. We’ll invite you to reflect on how literature shapes, and is shaped by, the world. Drawing on key texts, core theories and concepts, you’ll develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills that will help you make your own mark.

On our four-year MLitSt Literature, you will be part of an interdisciplinary department where literary critics work alongside practising poets, dramatist, film-makers, novelists and journalists.

You have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of optional modules across different topics and areas of specialism, including;

  • Literatures of slavery and emancipation

  • Themes of love, desire and death

  • Identity, diversity and voice in United States literature

  • Shakespeare’s tragedies

  • Postcolonial literature

  • Romantic, Gothic, naturalist, realist and sentimental writing

  • 20th and 21st century literature

  • Modernism, postmodernism, dystopias, and science fiction

  • European, Caribbean and Transatlantic literature

  • Poetic, contemporary, avant-garde and political writing

    In your fourth year, as a post-graduate student, you will be able to choose from the following masters level modules in literature and, if you wish, creative writing:

  • Shakespeare and the Modern

  • Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis

  • The Modern City: From Modernism to Postmodernism

  • Caribbean Crossings: Literature across continents

  • African American Literature

  • Dramatic Structure

  • Memory Maps

  • Oulipo and the Avant Garde

  • US Avant Garde poetry

    At Essex, you can study modules which examine a variety of genres, including travel writing, the podcast, and autobiography among others, and work across different media, including books, newspapers, plays and film. Our modules not only span momentous historical, political and social worldwide events, but also examine the alternative worlds that literature has produced.

    At Essex we believe in radical, challenging and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and while we are respectful of conventions, we’re not bound by them.

    • Entry Requirements

    A-Level Grades ABB - BBB
    UCAS Tariff Points 120 - 128 points
    BTEC DDM

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    3412 Authors, writers and translators
    4135 Library clerks and assistants
    2471 Librarians
    2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
    2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors
    2115 Social and humanities scientists

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    A-Levels

    BBB

    UCAS Points

    112 - 120 points

    Avg. Salary

    £24,000

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Master of Literature with Honours – MLit (Hons)
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    4 Years
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Colchester
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    English literature and creative writing

    Offered by

    University of Essex

    Colchester

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