English Studies
专业详情
- To give students with relevant experience at first-degree level the opportunity to develop a conceptually and historically sophisticated approach to literary study, both in taught seminar groups and individual research; also to carry out focused research under close supervision in their field of interest.
- To enable students to acquire or develop skills in order to practise research in the field in a professional manner; to give students the opportunity to develop a critical and methodological framework, and to acquire relevant bibliographical and electronic skills.
- To prepare students (where relevant) for doctoral research in a range of different research areas with a literary dimension.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course students should have developed:
- a deeper knowledge of literature and its contexts (critical, cultural, historical), in general, and of their chosen area of research in particular;
- a critical understanding of the material, cultural, theoretical and social contexts which inform their chosen area of research and of the scholarly debates within it.
Skills and Other Attributes
By the end of the course students should have:
- demonstrated independent judgment based on their own research;
- acquired or consolidated the skills of professional discovery, and of recording and presenting scholarly research, including critical, IT, bibliographical and other skills;
- learned how to timetable independent research so as to produce written work of a high standard to a clearly defined timetable;
- learned how to participate articulately and effectively in seminar discussions.
