Applicants for this course should have achieved a High II.i Honours Degree .
If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.
Normally, applicants must have at least a high II.i Honours degree from a UK university or an international equivalent to this. However, applicants should note that the majority of those accepted onto the English Faculty's MPhil in practice have a first-class Honours degree or equivalent. Applicants will normally be expected to have taken a substantial number of English literature courses at a university level as part of their undergraduate degree.
University Minimum Academic Requirements
Score : Grade A & B (overall score of 193, with no element lower than 185 plus a Language Centre assessment)
Score : Grade A, B, or C (with at least 200 with no element lower than 185).
The course aims are:
To give students with relevant experience at first-degree level the opportunity to develop a conceptually and historically sophisticated approach to literary study, both in taught seminar groups and individual research; also to carry out focused research under close supervision in their field of interest.
To enable students to acquire or develop skills in order to practise research in the field in a professional manner; to give students the opportunity to develop a critical and methodological framework, and to acquire relevant bibliographical and electronic skills.
To prepare students (where relevant) for doctoral research in a range of different research areas with a literary dimension.
In the first term (Michaelmas), most students take one set of taught Research Frameworks Seminars and one set of taught Specialist Seminars. In addition, and depending on their research specialisms, some students may take a set of taught Textual Studies seminars or may take the latter instead of Michaelmas's Research Frameworks Seminars.
In the second term (Lent), all students take one set of taught Research Frameworks Seminars and two sets of taught Specialist Seminars.
By special arrangement and subject to certain conditions, a set of Specialist Seminars may be substituted by a course from another MPhil.
In addition to the taught seminars, the Faculty provides Research Training Lectures and talks in the first (Michaelmas) and second (Lent) terms. These are complemented by events and training sessions provided by the University Library and Faculty Library, dealing with subjects such as bibliographical and information management skills, the use of electronic resources, and good referencing practices. A wide range of specialist Research Seminars (attended by PhD students and academics as well as by MPhil students) are also provided, and MPhil students are expected to attend at least ten of these across the three academic terms (Michaelmas, Lent, and Easter).