What Will You Study
The MA in English Language and Literary Studies is ideal for you if you would like to combine your studies of English Language with the study of literature and literary theory. This MA is taught jointly by the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the Department of English and Creative Writing, allowing a great deal of flexibility to follow your own interests.
You will study modules from both departments, including at least one research methods module and a dissertation.
Course Structure
You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.
Core
Optional
- Affliction: Writing Illness and Disease in the Gothic Mode
- Bilingualism
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen
- Corpus Linguistics
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Emotional Geographies in Early Modern Literature
- English Grammar: A Cognitive Approach
- Experimental Approaches to Language and Cognition
- Experimental Phonetics
- Forensic Linguistics
- Fusions
- Gawain on Location: Medieval Literature in the British North West and the Alps
- Introduction to Discourse Studies
- Literature and the Environment in Early Modern England
- On Location in the Lakes
- Postcolonial Women's Writing
- Posthumanism: Literature after the human
- Pragmatics
- Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature I
- Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature II
- Research Methods in Linguistics and English Language
- Rethinking Religion in the Victorian Novel
- Romance and Realism
- Romanticism: People, plants and animals
- Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics
- The Neoliberal Novel: Fiction, Politics and Economics 1979-
- Victorian Literature and Other Media
- Writing the Nineteenth Century City
Key Information
Duration: 12 months, full-time; 24 months, part-time
Entry requirements: A good second class honours degree or its equivalent, in a relevant subject area
IELTS: 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in listening and speaking and at least 6.5 in reading and writing) or equivalent
Assessment: Coursework and dissertation
Funding: All applicants should consult our information on fees and funding.
Further information: www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/litRelated Courses
- Applied Linguistics (by thesis and coursework) : PhD
- Applied Linguistics and TESOL : MA
- Discourse Studies : MA
- English Language (by distance) : MA
- Intercultural Communication : MA
- Language and Linguistics : MA
- Language Testing (Distance) : MA
- Linguistics : PhD
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (by Distance) : MA
Fees
| Full Time (per year) | Part Time (per year) | |
|---|---|---|
| UK/EU | £8,920 | £4,460 |
| Overseas | £18,800 | £9,400 |
The University will not increase the Tuition Fee you are charged during the course of an academic year.
If you are studying on a programme of more than one year's duration, the tuition fees for subsequent years of your programme are likely to increase each year. The way in which continuing students' fee rates are determined varies according to an individual's 'fee status' as set out on our fees webpages.
What are tuition fees for?
Studying at a UK University means that you need to pay an annual fee for your tuition, which covers the costs associated with teaching, examinations, assessment and graduation.
The fee that you will be charged depends on whether you are considered to be a UK, EU or overseas student. Visiting students will be charged a pro-rata fee for periods of study less than a year.
Our annual tuition fee is set for a 12 month session, which usually runs from October to September the following year.
How does Lancaster set overseas tuition fees?
Overseas fees, alongside all other sources of income, allow the University to maintain its abilities across the range of activities and services. Each year the University's Finance Committee consider recommendations for increases to fees proposed for all categories of student and this takes into account a range of factors including projected cost inflation for the University, comparisons against other high-quality institutions and external financial factors such as projected exchange rate movements.
What support is available towards tuition fees?
Lancaster University's priority is to support every student in making the most of their education. Many of our students each year will be entitled to bursaries or scholarships to help with the cost of fees and/or living expenses. You can find out more about financial support, studentships, and awards for postgraduate study on our website.