Postgraduate Programme
For Women

Duration: 2 Years
The M.A. in English Language and Literature is designed to inspire students to appreciate first-hand, the varieties and shades of language and style and various kinds and trends of imaginative writing in Modern English Literature (1500 to the present day). Over the course of the programme, students will learn how to train their critical taste and judgment in such a way that they are able to respond sympathetically and imaginatively to diverse literary trends and movements. Concurrently, their ability to arrive at an impersonal and dispassionate evaluation of a given work of art and/or a given writer will be honed. They will gain the skills necessary to be aware of problems, limitations and strengths implicit in the appreciation of English language and literature, and learn how to write effectively and cogently while expressing themselves either in critical or in creative writing.
- 10+2 years of schooling and 3 years of university (total 15 years) as recognized by SSSIHL
- Either passed or appeared for Final exams at Bachelor’s degree level before the date of Admissions Test
- Bachelor’s degree: 50% or more (English) and 60% or more (Aggregate incl. English) or CGPA aggregate of 6 or more (10-point scale) and 5 or more (10-point scale) in English. If not appeared for Bachelor’s degree final exams, aggregate marks in all the preceding Years/Semesters put together marks will be considered
- Age: preferably below 23 years on 31 May in the year of admission
YEAR 1
Semester 1
English Literature: Chaucer and 1550-1660, Shakespeare
English Literature: 1660-1789, English Literature: 1789-1830
Semester 2
English Literature: 1830-1900, English Literature: 20th Century, Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Literature
YEAR 2
Semester 3
American Literature, Literary Criticism, Structure of Modern English I (Elements of Linguistics and Phonetics), Structure of Modern English II (Grammar)
Semester 4
English for the Media, Two courses (chosen from the two sets of electives) and a Dissertation / Open Course in World Drama
ELECTIVES
Elective I
Course A: Comparative Literature
Course B: European Classics in Translation
Elective II
Course A: Women’s studies (Drama and Fiction)
Course B: Teaching of English as a second language