Bachelor [Accounting and Finance] From University of Central Lancashire

Students will be free in the Lent term to choose two from a range of optional courses offered by the MPhils in American Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Criticism and Culture, 18th Century and Romantic Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Literature.Ê

The MPhil will be examined by means of two pieces of coursework and a dissertation on a topic of the student's choosing. Students will research and write their dissertations over the course of the three terms in close consultation with supervisors.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should have:

• developed a deeper knowledge of their chosen area within American literary studies and of the critical debates within that area;
• developed an understanding of critical debates that enables the evaluation of current research in their specialist area; and
• developed an understanding of the broader field of American literary studies and the place of their specialist area within it.

Continuing

MPhil students may apply to continue to a PhD in English; the minimum academic condition for continuation is a pass in the MPhil course.Ê Other conditions may be imposed.