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Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

1. To demonstrate a broad understanding of literatures in English and translation.

2. To appreciate historical context's role in creating and interpreting literary works.

3. To engage questions of justice, value, spirituality, and meaning raised by literary texts.

4. To read, closely analyze, interpret, and produce texts in various formats and genres.

5. To analyze the functions of texts and their relations with historical, social and political contexts.

6. To draw from different critical perspectives and appreciate how differences in the theoretical framework can produce multiple readings of a text.

7. To analyze the role that intersections among race, gender, class, sexuality, and/or national or global history play in literary studies.

8. To apply literary theory and criticism concepts in the analysis and interpretation of texts.

9. To locate, evaluate and synthesize the available resources for researching a significant scholarly topic.

10. To develop and innovate effective writing processes to compose texts for varied readers.

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

1. To demonstrate a broad understanding of literatures in English and translation.

2. To appreciate historical context's role in creating and interpreting literary works.

3. To engage questions of justice, value, spirituality, and meaning raised by literary texts.

4. To read, closely analyze, interpret, and produce texts in various formats and genres.

5. To analyze the functions of texts and their relations with historical, social and political contexts.

6. To draw from different critical perspectives and appreciate how differences in the theoretical framework can produce multiple readings of a text.

7. To analyze the role that intersections among race, gender, class, sexuality, and/or national or global history play in literary studies.

8. To apply literary theory and criticism concepts in the analysis and interpretation of texts.

9. To locate, evaluate and synthesize the available resources for researching a significant scholarly topic.

10. To develop and innovate effective writing processes to compose texts for varied readers.

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