Study Details: MA 24-72 month online
This course accepts applications for January and September entry each year, including September 2025, January 2026, September 2026, and January 2027.
This course lets you develop your specialism and study what you love, without the constraints of a set curriculum. Whether you're preparing for a PhD, focused on enhancing your professional skills, or exploring English for the sheer joy of it, the course can work for you.
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:
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.
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.
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This course will develop your ability to research and process a large amount of information quickly, and to present the results of your research in an articulate and effective way across a range of platforms and outputs.
In your assessments, you will produce work directly connected to careers in teaching, business and communications, digital and creative industries, the media and publishing, policy and more. You will also be well prepared if you are considering a PhD, or a career in academia.
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