约克大学 · 英语文学研究文学硕士 硕士

📖 项目简介

You'll choose option modules from a range of research-led topics offering opportunities to work across different literary periods and genres. You can choose from modules on poetry, fiction and drama from the medieval to the modern. You can study literature in relation to issues of gender, politics, film or postcolonialism, and enrich your learning with a module from another departments in the Faculty. Some modules will take an interdisciplinary view, others will focus on a particular literary or historical period or subject.

You'll also hone your research skills with dedicated training, and complete a research dissertation. You'll study 180 credits in total.

• Modules
• Dissertation

You'll learn valuable research, writing and presentation skills. Topics may include using library and online research resources, use of archives, academic writing and career guidance.

• Postgraduate Life in Practice

You will also study four option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

• Auteures: Gender, Power and Authorship in Film and Literature
• Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen: Femininity and Literary Culture
• The Translation of the World: Reading the Global Nineteenth Century
• Bad Feelings: Negative Affect in Contemporary Literature

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

• Dissertation

Your dissertation offers you the chance to examine a topic in depth and to develop your research skills. You'll work on a 12,000-14,000-word dissertation with regular supervision from a member of staff.

You'll submit your dissertation at the end of your course. Recent dissertation topics include:

• Impotence, Infidelity, and Male Identity in Restoration Sex Comedies
• Reticence in Modern Northern Irish Poetry
• Beauty and Beasts: The Women of Guillermo del Toro’s Films
• Godlessness, Love and Fame in Shakespeare’s Poetry
• Windows and Thresholds in Margaret Oliphant's Fiction

Every course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.

• Analyse significant literary and cultural texts closely and critically, interpreting them with reference to the social, political, economic and/or aesthetic contexts in which they were produced, reproduced, and received.
• Synthesise information from a range of critical sources in a sophisticated and mature fashion, carefully evaluating and selecting material to make for controlled, informed, convincing and creative argumentation.
• Evaluate and contribute to scholarly debates around literature, including its history, inheritances, legacies, relation to socio-economic conditions, conceptions of authorship and textuality.
• Initiate, conduct, and take responsibility for independent research, drawing on skills honed by graduate-level research training, research-led teaching, and the completion of a substantial dissertation project.
• Communicate sophisticated written arguments in a clear, accurate and persuasive fashion, synthesising evidence from multiple sources so as to convey information creatively and convincingly.
• Engage in verbal discussion of complex textual material, demonstrating versatility, rigour, and confidence in the reception, appreciation, and articulation of high-level ideas and perspectives.
• Direct their own development, bringing new knowledge and skills to bear upon a range of contexts including (but not limited to) doctoral study in English literature and related fields.

The lectures are informative and the seminars are always exciting. The students in the Departm

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✨ 项目特色

You’ll work with world‐leading academics who’ll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace.

• Two 2-hour seminars each week. If you are a part-time student, you will attend one 2-hour seminar a week.
• Taught in seminars of fewer than 16 students for most modules; some core modules may involve a larger number of students.
• Essential reading is set for each seminar, you are encouraged to read more widely around the topic.
• A series of training lectures and workshops, designed to address writing at MA level, presenting your work, transferable skills and career development.

Over the course of the year, you'll give regular seminar presentations and attend research seminars and day conferences hosted by the Department. Many of these events will be organised through the Humanities Research Centre , a stimulating community, unique to York.

You can make use of our dedicated study spaces, including the F.R. Leavis Room and the Writing lab, to work, collaborate and socialise in.

York's library contains a rich variety of resources available to you. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Poetry Society collection
• Music and audiovisual collections
• Humanities Research collections

The city of York also boasts rich, scholarly resources in a student-friendly and contemporary environment. You can immerse yourself in a range of public libraries and archives around the city and region.

🎯 入学要求

You will need to submit examples of written work with your application. Please see our guidance on submitting written work .

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

For more information see our postgraduate English language requirements .

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses . These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York .

You can apply and send all your documentation online. You don’t need to complete your application all at once: you can start it, save it and finish it later.

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