M.A. English

An MA English Literature degree prepares you for opportunities in diverse industries. With excellent writing and communication skills, an MA in English Literature can be recruited for a variety of job roles. Studying MA English Literature can help you inculcate the skills that are essential for today’s global and competitive environment: where analytic, creative and critical reasoning skills are the most advantageous.

Careers for an English Literature post Graduate

• Lecturer

• Anchor

• Writer

• Public Relations

• Copywriter

• Social Service

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOME

By the end of the programme students :

• critically interact with works from different contexts: social, political, economic, historical and national as subjects conscious of their own socio-historic specificity and thus their level of critical thinking is enhanced.

• become thorough with reading works with theoretical basis

• Students become capable of interpreting and exploring relationships from the points of view of different people.

• become inspired by fiction, open up their minds and stimulate the sympathetic/empathic imagination by allowing them to see the world through other’s eyes as well to foster intercultural dialogue

• approach and appreciate Indian literature in English and explore its uniqueness and its place among the literatures in English.

• get sensitized with the critical tools used in the reading of literature

• form an idea of the complex nature of literary studies and how they are entangled with other aspects of the social body.

• gain perceptive insights into the socio-political dynamics, the structuring points of view, the dominant ideology, hegemony, the prevailing common sense and communal underpinnings that mediate the writing, production, reception and survival of a work.

• learn literary terms and the various streams in literary criticism, to make them aware of the inter-disciplinary nature of contemporary criticism and to develop in students, skills for literary criticism.

• inculcate a literary, aesthetic and critical awareness of diverse cultures and literary creations and thus to arrive at a broader vision of the world.

• come to know about the evolution of the Feminist movement and to familiarize them with the various issues addressed by Feminism

• become sensitized to issues like marginalization and subjugation of women

• develop sensible response to great classics in translation and fine tune analytical skills with a view to achieving a broad, wholesome vision of life.