MLitt Women, Writing And Gender

A 2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a subject-related area. If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

The qualifications listed are indicative minimum requirements for entry. Some academic Schools will ask applicants to achieve significantly higher marks than the minimum. Obtaining the listed entry requirements will not guarantee you a place, as the University considers all aspects of every application including, where applicable, the writing sample, personal statement, and supporting documents.

Application requirements

• Supplementary application to School of English (Word)
• CV or résumé - this should include your personal details with a history of your education and employment to date 
• sample of your own, single-authored academic writing on a relevant literature topic (approximately 2,000 words) 
• two original signed academic references (on university headed paper) from your most recent degree awarding institution
  academic transcripts and degree certificates. 

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Graduates of the course go on to pursue careers in a range of sectors including journalism, marketing, publishing and teaching.  

The Careers Centre offers one-to-one advice to all students as well as a programme of events to assist students in building their employability skills.

Compulsory

• Theories and Contexts 1: supports students' work by providing a theoretical and critical background to key historical debates in feminist and gender theory.  
• Theories and Contexts 2: continues students' work on the theoretical and critical background to issues in modern and contemporary feminist and gender theory.  
• Women, Writing and Gender 1: Renaissance to Romanticism: seeks to introduce students to a range of debates concerning women, writing and gender through history.  
• Women, Writing and Gender 2: Victorian to Contemporary: continues the chronological survey of debates surrounding women, writing and gender begun in the previous module by examining continuity and change in constructions of gender across the period 1800 to the present. 

Dissertation

The dissertation module allows students to engage in a substantial piece of independent research. 

Student dissertations will be supervised by members of the teaching staff who will advise on the choice of subject and provide guidance throughout the research process. The completed dissertation of not more than 15,000 words must be submitted by a date specified in August.  

If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for the MLitt, there is an exit award available that allows suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of an MLitt.