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English Integrated Masters

Undergraduate Master at the University of Derby

Programme details
Degree: Undergraduate Master (M (UG))
Discipline: Languages
Duration: 48 months
Study modes: full-time

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Description:

Reflecting the vibrancy, dynamism, profundity and breadth of English literature, our innovative English Integrated Masters (MLit) enables you to gain a Masters level qualification as part of your degree - helping you to stand out in the competitive graduate job market.

In 1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’. A century on, Ezra Pound described artists as the ‘antennae of the race’. Literature is provocative, challenging, unsettling and transformational; it exposes us to new perspectives and undermines existing certainties. At the University of Derby, we believe that the study of literature should do this too.

What is an Integrated Masters?

The Integrated Masters takes you on a journey through undergraduate to masters level learning, giving you greater opportunity to develop advanced research skills and specialist knowledge. The masters level modules build directly on those taken at earlier stages, meaning that you will benefit from a coherent programme which builds logically toward the MLit award.

The Integrated Masters qualification will help you to stand out when seeking a graduate career.

It also offers an excellent way to fund additional study: you can secure a student loan which covers all four years of your full-time study.

A broad perspective

English at Derby is an exciting, diverse and challenging course that not only incorporates the close analysis of literature, but also considers the situations in which literature is produced and read. This means your studies will include the intellectual and cultural history of art, film, philosophy, linguistics and sociology, as well as contemporary cultural politics.

You will examine literatures from the sixteenth century to the present day; from Africa and the Caribbean, Asia, the USA and Europe. And you will cover subjects ranging from myth and fantasy through to crime, passion and madness.

At postgraduate level you can also investigate the nature and significance of offence and free speech, and the relationship between landscape and literature, while developing your understanding of literary representations of identity, eighteenth-century thought and the reactions it received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The flexibility of the course also means you can choose from a wide range of thought-provoking options so that you can focus on your own literary interests.

Inspirational teaching

You will be taught by an enthusiastic team with research expertise covering a broad range of literary interests. You will also benefit from guest seminars and lectures, including those given by our Visiting Professor, Catherine Belsey, an internationally-recognised scholar whose work has profoundly influenced the way English is studied and taught.

The ideal setting

You could not have a better backdrop to your studies than Derbyshire, a county which inspired many great writers including Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot and Henry James.

Derbyshire was one of the centres of the British Enlightenment during the eighteenth century. You will be introduced to this important heritage from the beginning of your course, taking Enlightenment Literature in your first semester. The postgraduate modules will then develop your understanding of this crucial period of Western cultural development and the literary responses to it.

A career focused degree

An English degree will open up a range of career options. However, we also recognise the importance of supporting you to develop the skills sought by employers to maximise your employability.

You will have personal development planning (PDP) interviews with your Year Tutor throughout your degree. Your tutor will help you explore career aspirations, review your PDP file and advise you on developing transferable skills.

We offer the opportunity for applied study through our work-based learning modules, which can be taken as options and give you experience of working with various cultural institutions. There is also a programme of employability workshops and talks.

Not just lectures and classrooms

You can broaden your experience through trips and study visits to cinemas, film festivals, theatres, museums, galleries and heritage centres where you can observe and also apply what you are learning in practice.

Study in America

You can choose to study part of your degree at one of our partner universities in America:

  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Keene State College in New Hampshire
  • Longwood University in Virginia
  • Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 

You can also study our three-year BA (Hons) English or our BA (Hons) English Literature and Language with optional TESOL pathway. You could also combine English with another subject - find out more about our joint honours degrees.



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