MA Nineteenth Century Studies (Research Track)

Comments about MA Nineteenth Century Studies (Research Track) - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  Research-track training towards a PhD. Interdisciplinary study of the nineteenth century.
• Entry requirements
  Entry/language requirements At least 2:1 or international equivalent in a first degree in English, or a combined degree including a substantial element of English. If English is not your first language, we normally require an overall IELTS score of at least 7.5, normally with at least 7 in each component. For TOEFL we normally expect a minimum score of 630, with a Test of Written English score of 5. Applicants who have taken the computer-based TOEFL test must normally achieve an overall score of 267 with an essay-writing score of at least 5. The TOEFL IBT test score has to be 113 or above.
• Academic title
  MA Nineteenth Century Studies (Research Track)
• Course description
  Course content
  
  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Studies, Research Methods and Practice module plus 60 credits and 15,000-word dissertation.
  
  Modules in the English department:
  
  -Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Studies (core)
  -Victorian Medievalism
  -Research Methods and Practice
  -The Rise of The Gothic, 1790–1890
  -Romantic Ireland
  -The City in 19th-century English Literature
  -Archive Use and Methodology
  -Literary Language from Romanticism to Modernism.
  
  Modules in other departments:
  
  -Nineteenth-century German Literature
  -Hegel and his Critics
  -The Fin-de-Siècle
  -Ballads, Broadsides and Cartoons: The Firth Collection in Sheffield.
  
  15-credit modules:
  
  -Discovering Rural England, 1870–1920
  -History and the Victorians
  -Union Man: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
  -The Chartist Challenge
  -The Advent of Socialism in Britain, 1880–1900.
  
  Assessment
  -Essays
  -coursework folder
  -15,000-word dissertation.

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