2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Integrated Masters - Master of Letters (MLiSt) (Honours) - Literature

University of Essex International College

Constable Building, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, United Kingdom

305073

Last updated: 08/05/2025

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About 2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Integrated Masters - Master of Letters (MLiSt) (Honours) - Literature

Program Description

For students who've finished high school but don’t meet the entry requirements for university, a Foundation Certificate can help them gain entry to an undergraduate degree. After completing this pathway option students qualify for progression to the 1st year of an undergraduate degree at the University of Essex.

A student’s course length is determined mainly by their English language level (UKVI IELTS score). Students on all course lengths take a set of common or similar modules to gain a solid base of skills for university. Students taking a course longer than 2 terms, will take additional modules designed to improve one or more of their English language level, academic skills, and basic knowledge of particular subjects.

Master of Letters - Literature

On this four-year MLitSt Literature, students will be part of an interdisciplinary department where literary critics work alongside practicing poets, dramatists, film-makers, novelists and journalists.

Students have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of optional modules across different topics and areas of specialisation, including;

Literatures of slavery and emancipation
Themes of love, desire and death
Identity, diversity and voice in United States literature
Shakespeare’s tragedies
Postcolonial literature
Romantic, Gothic, naturalist, realist and sentimental writing
20th and 21st century literature
Modernism, postmodernism, dystopias, and science fiction
European, Caribbean and Transatlantic literature
Poetic, contemporary, avant-garde and political writing

In the fourth year, as post-graduate students, they will be able to choose from the following masters level modules in literature and, if they wish, creative writing:

Shakespeare and the Modern
Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis
The Modern City: From Modernism to Postmodernism
Caribbean Crossings: Literature across continents
African American Literature
Dramatic Structure
Memory Maps
Oulipo and the Avant Garde
US Avant Garde poetry

At Essex, students can study modules which examine a variety of genres, including travel writing, the podcast, and autobiography among others, and work across different media, including books, newspapers, plays and film. Their modules not only span momentous historical, political and social worldwide events, but also examine the alternative worlds that literature has produced.

Tuition (1st year)

£28,480.00 GBP

Application Fee

Free

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Cost and Duration

Program Level

Integrated Masters

Average Graduate Diploma

10 Month Pathway Program (international Foundation Year) Followed By A 4 Year Integrated Master's Degree

Cost of Living

£12,180.00 GBP / Year

Gross Tuition

£21,540.00 GBP / First Year

Application Fee

Free

2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Integrated Masters - Master of Letters (MLiSt) (Honours) - Literature

About 2.5-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate in Humanities - Continue to Integrated Masters - Master of Letters (MLiSt) (Honours) - Literature

Program Description

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