Lancaster University

English Literature : MA

Lancaster UniversityLancaster, UK

Course overview

Develop your critical voice as you select your own path through a rich engagement with literature from the medieval to the contemporary. You will be guided throughout by a focus on the themes of world, spirit, body and place. This quartet of foundational critical terms reflects major Lancaster research strengths and will provide you with a gateway to literary study of all kinds, both established and experimental.

Key highlights

  • Literature spanning the medieval period to the contemporary
  • Flexible study letting you select your own path
  • Teaching guided by themes of world, spirit, body and place
  • Themes reflect the department's major research strengths
  • Covers both established and experimental forms of literary study
  • Focus on developing your own critical voice

Entry requirements

  • Degree: 2:2 — to include related subject

Scholarships

  • Alumni Loyalty Scholarship

    10% fee discount

    Up to 10% of fees
  • Chevening Scholarships

  • EMBA Women in Business Scholarship

    50% fee reduction

    Up to 50% of fees
  • Executive Dean's Awards

    Up to 40% fee reduction

  • Health and Medicine International Study Centre Progression Scholarship

    Scholarship offers a 20% fee reduction for students.

    Up to 20% of fees
  • Health and Medicine Master’s Excellence Scholarship

    25% fee reduction for both home and international fee-paying students.

  • Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences International Study Centre Progression Scholarship

    Scholarship offers a 20% fee reduction for students.

    Up to 20% of fees
  • Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Master’s Excellence Scholarship

    20% fee reduction for both home and international fee-paying students.

    Up to 20% of fees
  • LUMS EMBA Excellence Scholarship

    50% fee reduction

    Up to 50% of fees
  • LUMS MBA Excellence Scholarship

    50% fee reduction

    Up to 50% of fees
  • Management School International Study Centre Progression Scholarship

    Scholarship offers a range of awards of up to 20% fee reduction for students.

  • Management School Master’s Excellence Scholarship

    International fee-payers: up to 20% of your programme fee. Home fee payers: up to 30% of your programme fee.

  • MBA Women in Business Scholarship

    50% fee reduction

    Up to 50% of fees
  • Science and Technology International Study Centre Progression Scholarship

    Scholarship offers a range of awards of up to 30% fee reduction for students.

  • Science and Technology Master’s Excellence Scholarship

    Scholarship offers a range of awards of up to £9,000 to both home and international fee-paying students.

Careers this course leads to

  • Editor
  • Publishing assistant
  • Copywriter
  • Secondary school English teacher
  • Journalist
  • Arts administrator

Cost of study

UK/Home: £12,600 per year | International: £26,100 per year

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Lancaster University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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