Master in English Literature

University of Tripoli - Department of English Language

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Description

Run by the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts, University of Tripoli, this Master’s Degree (MA) in English Literature will deepen the student’s passion for literature while developing the rigorous specialist skills essential to postgraduate-level research. The course gives the students insight into the English and American literatures of different eras. Such a course would also allow students to gain expertise in a genre, author, or English and American literary movements. It is widely known that graduates of any MA in English Literature can be reliable content writers, editors, publishers, journalists, teachers, and technical writers.

Objectives

 Enabling distinguished students with university degrees to continue their higher studies.  

  Preparing professional cadres and competencies specialized in the fields of English literary studies 

 Preparing competencies capable to face the increasing challenges in the labor market while providing them with the necessary skills they need to overcome those challenges.

Preparing graduate students in the department and qualifying them to contribute to filling the shortage of the needs of Libyan universities in the field of teaching English literature.

             Enriching libraries with research related to English literature studies, providing scientific advisory services to institutions and motivating students to employ creativity and analysis skills   in literary criticism

 Filling the needs of society and universities with scientifically qualified    and specialists in the field of English literature studies

   

  

    

Outcomes

Competition in the labor market

 To understand the methods and skills in writing scientific research.

 Communicate with others, including different work teams.

Apply knowledge in teaching English language and literature..

 Using English communication skills, the ability to analyze English literary texts, understanding and mastering those texts, whether poetry or prose.

   Knowing other cultures and choosing what suits the Muslim culture..       

Certificate Rewarded

MA in English Literature

Entry Reuirements

Entry requirements:  

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English Literature.
  •  To submit an original copy of the transcript.
  • Approval from the work for full-time or part time study.
  • ·        Two recommendation  letters .                                      

  • 1.                To pass the English language exam (IELTS) with a score of (   6.5 ) and the proficiency test in the Arabic language,   

  • 6.fluent in English and Arabic 
  • International Computer Driving License Certificate   
  • Study Plan

    The Master in English Literature prepares students to qualify for Master in English Literature. The student studies several subjects which have been carefully chosen in this major to cover its different aspects.

    It comprises 3 Years of study, in which the student will study a total of 36 units, which include 0 units of general subjects, and 7 major units

    Study plan for this program is shown below:

    1st Year

    Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
    ENL501 Research methods 03 Compulsory +

    This course addresses the practical study of research techniques for thesis writing. Students are trained in basic concepts of research such as identifying the problem, reviewing the literature, building research design and drafting hypotheses or objectives. Research curricula and their application to research (library, Internet, other sources of information, monitoring, experimental): preparation of research proposal, data collection, data analysis (sorting, presentation and description), form of research report, principles of scientific writing of reports, results, recommendations and documentation. The aim of the course is to learn about the methods of scientific research in the field of English literature and to acquire the skill of scientific research in the field of English literary studies

    ENL503 Romantic and Victorian Literature 03 Compulsory +

    This course focuses on the Romantic period (the key figures representing the two generations of this period) then on two Victorian novelists (Charles Dickens or William Thackeray or George Eliot or William Trollope).

    ENL504 Teaching English Literature 03 Compulsory +

    · This course is an English course for post graduate students those details with the techniques and strategies in teaching of literature to undergraduate students in the English language departments. The students of this course will be brought to a rewarding and worthwhile experience of teaching literature, and eventually formulate their unique ways of teaching literary texts to equip their students with literary competence, develop critical thinking skills and a sense of literary appreciation. The course will present various critical approaches to literature and how those approaches are put into practice in the classroom.

    ENLL502 History of English Literature 03 Compulsory +

    This course is a survey of the main periods of English literature and the British literary works written from 500 to the present with special attention to their literary qualities and conceptual context. The course will develop appreciation of the works assigned, as well as allow students to read literature sensitively and critically. Class discussion will focus on cultural, social, historical, and political issues raised by the literature and students' reactions to them.

    2nd Year

    Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
    ENL505 William Shakespeare 03 Compulsory ENL501 +

    This course will examine three Shakespeare plays: a history, a comedy, and a tragedy. Topics will include character, form, spectacle, theme, and sources. Students will be introduced to a range of critical approaches to Shakespeare's plays and encouraged to reflect on questions of, cultural value, and authority. The course is particularly suitable for students wishing to become more familiar with the playwright's work.

    ENL506 Modern American Poetry and Drama 03 Compulsory ENL501 +

    This course studies the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Wallace Stevens. Then we examine one play by Arthur Miller and one by Eugene O’Neill.

    ENL507 Modern American Novel 03 Compulsory +

    This course examines the development of American fiction from the 1920s to contemporary voices and trends. The texts will be interpreted from a social and historical perspective, as products of American culture, and also from a formal or aesthetic perspective, as examples of literary genres or aesthetic movements which have a complex history and development within and outside of American literary circles. The texts: William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) and Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

    3rd Year

    Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
    ENL508 Contemporary British Novel 03 Compulsory +

    This course explores contemporary British novels (since 1965) that represent different strands of fiction and legacies of history, culture, and politics. The works selected engage with social and class structures, racial, ethnic, and questions of national identity, and they present some variety in narrative tones, style, and structure.

    ENL509 Postcolonial Literature in English 03 Compulsory +

    The course studies a few postcolonial (African, Asian, Latin American or Australasian) works and explores the way such works provide a representation of the suppressed as well as the suppresser, and hence offers a representation of conflicting views and ideologies. The course is text-oriented, but matters of history and context are also considered as essential.

    ENL510 Literary Criticism 03 Compulsory ENL501 +

    This is a survey of the prominent literary theories in the twentieth century: Historical/Biographical criticism, Formalism/New Criticism, Archetypal Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Criticism, Post-Colonialism. The students explore the way texts are studied, evaluated, and interpreted from different angles.