English Literature Marts
Course
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Duration
4 Years
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Start date
September
If you choose to follow the four year MArts degree you will receive training in research methods and write an individually supervised dissertation on a topic of your own choice, either in literature or as an extended piece of creative writing and commentary. You will also choose two modules from a list of Masters level options. The first three years of this course are the same as the BA (Hons) degree in English Literature.
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About this course
The course aims to enable understudies to: identify in texts a range of linguistic and literary features
relate the meaning of a text to its formal and rhetorical aspects
understand some of the central ideas in contemporary critical theory
apply these concepts, both analytically and imaginatively, to the reading of literary texts.
demonstrate appropriate academic writing skills, including referencing and bibliography.
A degree from the School of English Literature gives you particular skills and also skills which are common to other degrees in the Arts.
Your degree will indicate your capacity to show initiative and work without close supervision, alone or as a member of a group; you will show to an employer that you are able to work under preassure and meet deadlines.
Those students coming to study degrees such as English with Journalism or English with Songwriting will learn particular skills which will enable them, if they wish, to seek jobs in related fields.
Three A level subjects or the equivalent are preferred. A typical offer would be in the 320 280 points range including an A in English/ English Literature/English Language. Access to Higher Education: Diploma including English Literature level 3.
Irish Leaving Certificate: to include four Higher subjects and an A grade at English
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Subjects
- Options
- IT
- Creative Writing
- English
- Writing
- Shakespeare
- English Literature
- Memory, Identity and Imagination
- Travellers’ Tales
- The Literature of Laughter
- Medieval Literature
- Old English texts in translation
- Middle English texts
- Reading the Renaissance
- Exploring America
- Introduction to US Literature
- Gothic in Literature and Film
- Landmarks in Literature
Course programme
English Literature Marts