MA opportunities in the Division of English

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MA opportunities in the Division of English
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Courses available

• MA Modern English Language
• 180 credits
• Four 30-credit taught courses, one 60-credit
  dissertation
• 1 year full-time
• Students completing 90 credits per year will
  finish in 2 years
• MA Modern English Language by Distance-learning
• 180 credits
• Four 30-credit taught courses, one 60-credit
  dissertation
• Students completing 90 credits per year will
  finish in 2 years part-time
• web-based

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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Description of English

• Core module
• Advanced study of phonetics, phonology,
  morphology, syntax and semantics
• Introduces a range of theoretical approaches to
  language study, e.g. structuralism, generative
  approaches and functional approaches
• Serves as a foundation for all other MA modules

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Interaction in English

• Focuses on the relationship between language and
  context
• Examines how language users make sense of
  sentences and utterances
• Topics include the impact of politeness and
  impoliteness on language, and recurrent features
  of talk-in-interaction including turn-taking,
  turn construction, repair, overlap and preference

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Stylistics and CDA

• Investigates the relationship between linguistic
  form and meaning in a variety of text-types
• Considers how readers interact with texts
• Examines the ways in which ideologies are
  linguistically encoded in texts and how language
  may be used to manipulate readers

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Language Development and Diversity

• Focuses on the nature, use and status of
  different linguistic codes (including standard
  and non-standard English and community
  languages)
• Investigates aspects of language development in
  the school years in monolingual and multilingual
  speakers
• Examines theoretical approaches to language
  education in schools and the ideological
  underpinnings of both attitudes to language and
  theoretical models

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Dissertation in English Language

• Core module
• Dissertation of 12,000 14,000 words
• Offers the opportunity for students to engage in
  original research based on their key interests
• Students work with a supervisor on a topic of
  their choice
• Supervisor assists in the development of the
  topic and provides support and advice e.g.
  concerning research skills and methodologies.

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Entry requirements

• 21 Honours degree in English Language or a
  cognate subject
• Other qualifications/experience considered
• Minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent
  English Language qualification

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Course Fees

• Course fees for the academic year 2006-07 are as
  follows
• MA Modern English Language
• UK/EU students - 305 per 15 credits
• One year, full-time 180 credits x 305 3660
• Overseas students - 8000 per annum
• MA Modern English Language by Distance-learning
• UK/EU and Overseas students - 305 per 15 credits

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Bursaries

• A limited number of fees-only bursaries will be
  available for full-time UK/EU students
• Awarded on a competitive basis
• Applicants must have been offered a place in
  order to apply
• Details of the bursary application process will
  be sent out following an offer of a place

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Benefits of studying at Huddersfield

• Broad-ranging MA
• Offers opportunity for specialism
• Ideal for graduates already working in education
  and wishing to expand their knowledge-base
• Firm foundation for PhD research
• Small language team
• Research active
• Research specialisms in bilingualism, Critical
  Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis,
  pragmatics, stylistics
• Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference
  2005
• Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness Conference
  2006
• Stylistics Symposium 2007
• English Research Seminars
• Postgraduate Conference

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Resources for students

• University Library holds over 400,000 books,
  journals and audio-visual items
• Access to the Brotherton Library in Leeds and the
  John Rylands Library in Manchester under UK
  Libraries Plus Scheme
• Over 2000 networked PCs on campus
• Designated computer labs within the department
• Access to the British National Corpus, the ICAME
  corpus collection and concordancing software
  including Wordsmith, SARA and Wordcruncher
• Refurbishment of West Building currently underway

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Applying

• Fill in an application form and send it to the MA
  Admissions Tutor, Dan McIntyre
• Send a reference request form to each of your
  referees
• Places are offered on the basis of
  qualifications, experience and references
• Information about fees and enrolment will follow

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The English Website

• http//www.hud.ac.uk/mh/english/index.html