MRes English

Comments about MRes English - At the institution - Plymouth - Devon

• Objectives
  This MRes aims to give students the opportunity to work on an extended dissertation on a topic of their own choosing, working with experts in a range of literary critical fields from 1600 to the present day. It provides a basis for progressing to MPhil/PhD study and an academic career.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements Applicants should normally hold a good second-class honours degree in English or a related field or a degree of comparable standard from another country. IELTS of 7 or equivalent.
• Academic title
  MRes English
• Course description
  Programme highlights
  
  -Opportunity to research a topic of your choice
  -Scope for interdisciplinary work
  -Prepares you specificically to become a researcher or to do a PhD
  
  Duration
  1 year full time or 2 years part time
  
  General programme structure
  
  The programme comprises three modules. The first, English research methods and current debates (30 credits), delivered in term one, aims to provide students with both discipline specific skills and an understanding of current debates in English. It is assessed by a small-scale research project written up in the form of a journal article.
  
  The second interdisciplinary module, Research in the arts and humanities (30 credits), delivered across terms one and two, is assessed by a project proposal, learning journal/log and a research presentation.
  
  The third module, the Masters thesis (120 credits), is taught by intensive one-to-one supervision, resulting in the production of a 25,000-30,000-word dissertation.  Assessment also includes a viva. Students may devise a topic of their choice but are encouraged to choose an area of staff expertise to obtain maximum support and guidance. Current staff research interests include the history of the book, political satire, national and cultural identity in the British Isles, late-Victorian aesthetics gender and science, war writing, modernism and modernity, English and American contemporary poetry, film and drama. There is scope for interdisciplinary work across traditional boundaries, for example in visual culture, psychology and psychoanalysis, representations of childhood and gender studies.
  
  Studying an MRes in the Faculty of Arts.
  
  Detailed programme structure
  
  Full-time students will take the programme over one year as in the programme structure above, part-time students will follow the same course over two years, taking the two research modules in the first year and the dissertation project module the second year.
  
  Students will not only be able to draw upon staff expertise through individual tutorials but will join a vibrant and growing research community which includes research seminars, conferences and the Peninsula Arts series of exhibitions and talks from visiting writers.

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