MA Cultures of the British Isles

About the course

1 year full-time/2 years part-time

This interdisciplinary course is based in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, but draws on expertise from the Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social Science.

The course will broaden your knowledge and experience of the British Isles, emphasising the plurality of cultures within these islands. You can choose modules from literary and linguistic studies, archaeology and history. Your dissertation will be in the area that interests you the most.

You'll go on field trips and site visits. There are also work placement opportunities in museums, galleries and heritage sites.

Entry requirements

You'll need a first or 2:1 undergraduate degree.

English language requirements

Overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Core modules

• Approaches to Cultures of the British Isles
• Dissertation

Optional modules

These may include:

• Literature and Nation
• Language in the British Isles
• Post-1945 British Drama, Film and Television
• Literature and Language in the Workplace
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Verse

Teaching

• Seminars
• Workshops

Assessment

• Coursework
• Final essays
• In-class presentations

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

Jane Lowe
E: j.lowe@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0211

Where your masters can take you

Our courses will prepare you for a range of careers. For an academic career, you may choose to continue to PhD study, either at Sheffield or elsewhere. Your skills will be useful in many other jobs. Our past graduates are working in teaching (primary, secondary, FE, HE and TESOL), publishing, marketing, librarianship, fund-raising and charity administration.

Why your masters matters

You'll benefit from our expertise in language acquisition, historical language studies, applied linguistics, literary linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Our enthusiastic staff publish internationally. We have a lively research culture and collaborate with scholars in Sheffield and beyond.

Along with the School of Modern Languages and Linguistics, we established the new University Centre for Linguistic Research to gather and support postgraduate linguistics research across the University.

Within the School of English, we hold weekly research seminars which give you the chance to hear about the latest developments. We have strengths in many fields, from language variation and change, psycholinguistics and syntax to conversation analysis, dialectology and the language–literature interface.

Our resources

We have specialist recording equipment for fieldwork and experimental work. Interactive computer-based workshops will introduce you to corpus-linguistic technology.

The University library subscribes to several electronic databases including JStor, Early English Texts online and Eighteenth-century Collections online. For more advanced reading, there's a regular free minibus service to the British Library at Boston Spa.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form