MA 1st year

The MA in English, like all Faculty of Letters MA programs, has two variants: a 90-credit programme over three semesters (Maîtrise universitaire ès lettres) and a 120-credit programme over four semesters (Maîtrise universitaire ès Lettres avec spécialisation). Look at the sections below for an overview of the basic possibilities available to you for taking English as your sole discipline or as one of two disciplines within these variants.

If you have studied English as one of your disciplines de base for your BA, you can take English as discipline secondaire or discipline principale at the MA level. The discipline principale includes writing an MA dissertation, mémoire de maîtrise, in English (see 2nd-year requirements below).

Link to Plan d'études 2015.

In the autumn semester, you need to attend the compulsory module of Introduction to Critical Approaches (Introduction aux approches critiques).

Further, during the whole year, you must choose five other modules covering at least two of the six fields of study (champs) offered by the English Department (American, Comp. Lit., English, Gender, Linguistics, Medieval)

Autumn semester: All MA courses in English on timetable page

Spring semester: All MA courses in English on timetable page

Assessment and Validation

Each module is assessed and validated in a different way. Your teachers will inform you of how you should proceed to satisfy their requirements, and as you complete them, they will enter the information into the Faculty data system. You can view your academic record through your MyUnil account.

You can opt to validate their seminars EITHER with a 6-hour written or a 30-minute oral exam, OR with a class validation (e.g. an essay). Students need to enrol for the type of validation they have chosen on Sylviacad by week FOUR.

For oral or written exams, students will present two subjects and a dossier to be agreed on with the instructor(s) of the seminar.

Please note that in Critical Approaches, Research Methodology, and SPEC seminars, you can only take the class validation.

You may attach this 30-credit programme to English as your sole discipline, taking it instead of a discipline secondaire. It allows you to extend your studies to modules given by other departments as well as to take more courses in the English Department. You may choose freely from a list provided by the Faculty.

This programme is validated by validation interne; there is no exam attached to it.

See list of classes offered here.

Assessment and validation

Each module is assessed and validated in a different way. Your teachers will inform you of how you should proceed to satisfy their requirements, and as you complete them, they will enter the information into the Faculty data system. You can view your academic record through your MyUnil account.