Romantic and Victorian Studies
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Entry requirements
A good 2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a subject-related area.
Months of entry
September
Course content
The MLitt in Romantic/Victorian Studies is an intensive one-year taught programme which considers texts and topics from across the 18th and 19th centuries.
Highlights
- Develop your skills as a researcher within a specific area of study by taking special topic modules.
- Study Romantic and Victorian literature in relation to a diverse range of ideologies, including discourses of revolution and reform, debates about gender, and aestheticism.
- Strengthen your knowledge of the historical, cultural, and critical contexts of nineteenth-century literature.
- Acquire experience of independent research through work on a postgraduate dissertation.
Teaching format
Taught modules consist of weekly seminars and group discussions with class sizes ranging from three to ten students. Modules are assessed through coursework essays. The School of English prides itself on its support of student work through detailed feedback and commentary.
During the course of the year, but particularly during the last four months, students will research and write a 15,000-word dissertation on a topic of their choosing.
Modules
The modules in this programme have varying methods of delivery and assessment. For more details of each module, including weekly contact hours, teaching methods and assessment, please see our website; some elements may be subject to change for 2021 entry.
Fees and funding
There are a variety of funding options available for postgraduate students. For more details visit our website.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MLitt
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MPhil
- full time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time48 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- PGDip
- full time9 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time21 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Postgraduate Secretary
- pgeng@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2668