This is a taught one year full-time, or two years part-time, postgraduate degree, which can be tailored to your needs, allowing you to pursue any literary interest you can imagine, whether it’s Arthurian literature or American crime fiction, animal rights or post colonialism. MLitt in English Studies is a literature degree offering specialist options in each of the major literary periods, from Old English to the present day. As well as being a research preparation degree for students who intend to proceed to a PhD, this course also caters directly for students who wish to take their first degree to a higher level of advanced study, for either career development or merely general interest. A centre of research excellence, we have recognized strengths in book history, authorship studies and visual culture. Our research culture thrives on probing the creative relationships between literature and film, poetry and theatre, word and image. This degree will: provide training in literary and cultural research as a firm basis for proceeding to doctoral work; provide a taught postgraduate programme to suit individual student research interests and research needs. Students who take this course will gain a solid foundation from which they can proceed to doctoral research. However, due to the non-vocational nature of a Humanities degree many students also enter jobs unrelated to their course of study. For these students this course provides them with an opportunity to further develop their written presentation skills, as well as the ability to work independently and plan independent research and study.