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MA English Education

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 5 years

Masters Degree Description

The English Education MA offers a stimulating and intellectually rigorous course of academic and professional development, including supervised experience of the conduct of small-scale research. Designed to enable more theoretically informed praxis, it is relevant to practitioners with an interest in the teaching of English literature, literacy, language, media and drama, across all phases of education.

Entry Requirements

Normally a minimum of a second-class UK Bachelor's degree in English or a related area (e.g. media or drama) or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Knowledge and experience of teaching English literature, literacy and/or language as a curriculum subject (primary, secondary or tertiary) is essential.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

The majority of our English Education MA students are already employed as practising teachers who are thinking about the next steps in their professional careers, for example as Heads of Department or taking up whole-school literacy development posts.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Contemporary Issues in English Education
  • Report on English Education and Integrated Research Methods
  • Dissertation on English Education and Integrated Research Methods
  • Literature for Children and Young People: Theory and Text
  • Shakespeare in Education
  • Developing Understanding in English, Media, Drama Studies
  • Creativity: from Theory to Practice in English, Media, Drama

Optional modules

  • Literature for Children and Young People: Theory and Text
  • Shakespeare in Education
  • Developing Understanding in English, Media, Drama Studies
  • Creativity: from Theory to Practice in English, Media, Drama
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