Ma english literature: victorian literature english

Structure

Please note for 2019/20 entry

Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.

Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.

The MA in Victorian Literature is currently available for one year full-time study, or two years part-time study.

You will study four assessed modules, and one non-assessed research training module, before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.

Assessed modules are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. The research-training module will involve visits to archives and galleries which may each take up an afternoon. The dissertation is supervised through sessions with a specially designated supervisor. In addition to the timetabled sessions, you will be asked to attend meetings with your adviser and course tutor. You will also need to undertake many hours of independent learning and research in order to progress at the required level. When coursework deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly.

You will take four assessed modules (two in each semester) and one non-assessed research training module (in Semester One) before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.

We understand the need for flexibility for part-time students. Part-time students take one assessed module per semester, and take the non-assessed research training module in Semester One. You are encouraged to begin work on your dissertation at the end of the first year, and will submit it in August of your second year. Teaching is done during the day.

Timetables are likely to be finalised in September but you may be able to get an idea of the teaching hours if you contact the course convenor.

• Victorian Voices
• Resources for Research (non-assessed)
• London Panoramas: Research, Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century (non-assessed)
• Dissertation

You choose three modules from a list of options that changes from year to year (one can be from the range of modules offered across the MA English Studies curriculum).

In 2017-2018 we hope to offer the following. If members of our specialist research staff win research funding it will mean that their module won’t run, so for that reason this list is indicative only.

• Aestheticism and Fin de Siecle Literature
• Victorian Print Culture

You may, subject to availability and the approval of the School, take one of your option modules from across a range offered by other Schools in the Humanities and Social Science Faculty, or from other Colleges of the University of London.

In addition to taught modules, we run a range of research seminars to which all MA students are invited. Some of these are linked to our interdisciplinary Research Centres, such as the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Centre for Religion and Literature in English and the Centre for the History of the Emotions. Others are collaborations with other institutions, such as the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. With visiting speakers from across the world, these seminars are an opportunity to meet other postgraduate students and members of staff and to learn about the latest developments in research.