Course summary
This course lets you develop your specialism and study what you love, without the constraints of a set curriculum. On this programme, our flexible mini-modules are known as 'pods'. You can choose from a broad range of pods of study, created by subject experts, to build your own programme. Your curriculum will be unique to you, and you can choose to work towards one of our specialist pathways below if you wish: Applied Linguistics Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching Discourse and Communication English Literature Language and Linguistics Literary Linguistics Medieval Englishes Modern and Contemporary Literature Name-Studies Norse and Viking Studies Professional Communication World Literatures You don't need to commit to a specialism right at the beginning of your studies, although you can if you want to! Your final degree depends on studying at least two-thirds of your course in a specialised area, and you will have regular opportunities to discuss this with your Personal Advisor as you go. Whatever your choices, you will graduate with an MA in English. If your options don’t fit a particular pathway, your degree outcome will be MA English (Applied English). Most students complete this course in around three years. However, you can adjust your study schedule to best suit your circumstances, with a minimum registration period of two years. Please note, if you are in receipt of a Student Finance England loan, you will be on a three-year completion schedule as standard.
Modules
You will begin your course with a free Orientation pod, and will meet your Personal Advisor. This will allow you to create your own study plan and select your first pods. You can work on one pod at a time, or two, or three, or all six at once, if you prefer. After six pods of study, you submit a portfolio of work that covers all six of your chosen topics. Then you move on to the second phase and take six more pods, and then a final phase of another six pods to complete the MA. In each of the three phases, you can choose from our full range of pods. There are no compulsory pods or pre-requisites. The list below represents the pod choices currently in our catalogue, and is arranged alphabetically. Pods A-C Alexander Pope and Eighteenth-Century Literary Contexts Approaches to Literary Studies Approaches to Victorian Literature Calls, Speech, Writing, and Sign Language Cognitive Narratology Cognitive Poetics Comics and Graphic Novels Contemporary Fairy Tale Literature Core Concepts in Linguistics Core Concepts in Second Language Acquisition Core Concepts in Vocabulary Studies Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis Corpus Stylistics Correspondence in the Long Nineteenth Century Culture and Communication Pods D-F Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature Digital Professional Communication Discourse Analysis Early Medieval Women and Literature Ecocriticism English Language Teaching Methodology English Field-Names Ethical Criticism Factors in Second Language Acquisition Pods G-I Gothic Literature Healthcare Narratives Historical Pragmatics Homer and Modern and Contemporary Literature Indian Literature of the Twentieth Century Intercultural Competence in Context Interlanguage Pragmatics Pods J-L The Language of Dystopia The Language of Multimodal Literature The Language of Surrealism The Languages of English Place-Names Leadership Communication Learning and Teaching Second Language Vocabulary Literary Constructions of Madness Literary Linguistics The Lyric and its Language in Middle English Pods M-O Medieval Geographies Metamodernism and Contemporary British Fiction Metaphor Modernism and D.H. Lawrence The Modernist Short Story Narratology Old English Language Old Norse Language Old Norse Mythology Oscar Wilde and West End Theatre Pods P-R Performing Space and Place Place-Names and the English Landscape Quantitative Research Methods in Applied Linguistics The Queens of Crime Fiction Queer Linguistics The Reader in Stylistics Reading and Editing the Medieval Text The Reading Public in the Romantic Period Reading the Early Modern Body Religion and Fantasy Literature Runes and Runic Inscriptions Pods S-U Saints and Heroes in Old English Poetry Shakespeare and Text Southeast Asian Literature Surnames and Identities Systemic Functional Linguistics Talk at Work Teaching And Assessing Second Language Skills Textual Editing Text World Theory Texts in a Digital World Understanding Performance Pods V-X Vampire Vikings in the East Midlands Women Poets of the English Civil War Words and Multiword Units World Literatures from Theory to Text World Utopia in the Early Twentieth Century Writing Poetry On this MA programme, pods are taken in place of modules and may be subject to change over the duration of the course.
Assessment method
There are no fixed deadlines within each year. Instead, there are three submission points over the year, and your Personal Advisor will help you schedule your portfolio work to submit at the time that suits you. You will submit a portfolio of work for every six pods that you complete. Guided by your Pod Tutors and Personal Advisor, your portfolio will showcase your strengths and skills relevant to your own life and career. For example, if you currently work in teaching, you could choose to include lesson plans in your portfolio. You will be assessed by your choice of assessment types, which may include: Essays Lesson plans Syllabus design Conference papers Blog posts Experiment design Exhibition curation Video/audio presentations Journalism Website design Creative writing Performance production
Entry requirements
Home/UK Students: Undergraduate degree Typically 2:1 or above, but we will consider 2:2 (or international equivalent), in any Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences subject. If you have other qualifications or professional experience, please contact us. We consider individual cases, including non-standard qualifications. EU/International Students: Undergraduate degree Typically 2:1 or above, but we will consider 2:2 (or international equivalent), in any Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences subject. If you have other qualifications or professional experience, please contact us. We consider individual cases, including non-standard qualifications. International and EU equivalents We accept a wide range of qualifications from all over the world. For information on entry requirements from your country, see our country pages. IELTS 6.5 (no less than 6.0 in each element) English language requirements As well as IELTS (listed above), we also accept other English language qualifications. This includes TOEFL iBT, Pearson PTE, GCSE, IB and O level English. Alternative qualifications We recognise that applicants have a variety of experiences and follow different pathways to postgraduate study. We treat all applicants with alternative qualifications on an individual basis. We may also consider relevant work experience. If you are unsure whether your qualifications or work experience are relevant, contact us.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
UK fees: £10,710
International fees: £10,710
Provider information
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD