MA opportunities in the Division of English

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MA opportunities in the Division of English
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Courses available

• MA Modern English Language
• 180 credits
• Four 30-credit taught courses, one 60-credit
  dissertation
• Full-time 1 year
• Part-time students completing 90 credits per
  year will finish in 2 years
• MA Modern English Language by Distance-learning
• 180 credits
• Four 30-credit taught courses, one 60-credit
  dissertation
• Part-time only students completing 90 credits
  per year will finish in 2 years part-time
• web-based

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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Course structure
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Description of English

• Core module
• Advanced study of phonetics, phonology,
  morphology, syntax and semantics
• Introduces a range of theoretical approaches to
  language study, e.g. structuralism, generative
  approaches and functional approaches
• Serves as a foundation for all other MA modules

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Interaction in English

• Focuses on the relationship between language and
  context
• Examines how language users make sense of
  sentences and utterances
• Topics include the impact of politeness and
  impoliteness on language, and recurrent features
  of talk-in-interaction including turn-taking,
  turn construction, repair, overlap and preference

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Stylistics and CDA

• Investigates the relationship between linguistic
  form and meaning in a variety of text-types
• Considers how readers interact with texts
• Examines the ways in which ideologies are
  linguistically encoded in texts and how language
  may be used to manipulate readers

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Language Development and Diversity

• Focuses on the nature, use and status of
  different linguistic codes (including standard
  and non-standard English and community
  languages)
• Investigates aspects of language development in
  the school years in monolingual and multilingual
  speakers
• Examines theoretical approaches to language
  education in schools and the ideological
  underpinnings of both attitudes to language and
  theoretical models

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Dissertation in English Language

• Core module
• Dissertation of 12,000 14,000 words
• Offers the opportunity for students to engage in
  original research based on their key interests
• Students work with a supervisor on a topic of
  their choice
• Supervisor assists in the development of the
  topic and provides support and advice e.g.
  concerning research skills and methodologies.

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Career Opportunities

• A Masters degree helps you to stand out among
  the increasing numbers of BAs
• Useful for teachers
• Secondary, FE, EFL, HE
• Can be useful for promotion prospects
• Excellent preparation for doctoral research

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Entry requirements

• 21 Honours degree in English Language or a
  cognate subject
• Other qualifications/experience considered
• Minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent
  English Language qualification

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Benefits of studying at Huddersfield

• Broad-ranging MA
• Offers opportunity for specialism
• Ideal for graduates already working in education
  and wishing to expand their knowledge-base
• Firm foundation for PhD research
• Small language team
• Research active staff
• Research specialisms in bilingualism, Critical
  Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis,
  pragmatics, stylistics
• Stylistics Research Centre
• Fortnightly English Research Seminars for staff
  and students
• Annual Postgraduate Conference

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Benefits of studying at Huddersfield

• International research profile
• Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference
  2005
• Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness Conference
  2006
• Stylistics Symposium 2007
• Lesley Jeffries, Chair
• Dan McIntyre, Treasurer

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Resources for students

• University Library holds over 400,000 books,
  journals and audio-visual items
• Access to the Brotherton Library in Leeds and the
  John Rylands Library in Manchester under UK
  Libraries Plus Scheme
• Over 2000 networked PCs on campus
• Designated computer labs within the department
• Access to the British National Corpus, the ICAME
  corpus collection and concordancing software
  including Wordsmith, SARA and Wordcruncher
• Department fully refurbished 2006, including new
  computer labs and space for postgraduate students

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Applying

• Fill in an application form and send it to the MA
  Admissions Tutor, Dan McIntyre
• Send a reference request form to each of your
  referees
• Places are offered on the basis of
  qualifications, experience and references
• Information about fees and enrolment will follow

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Course Fees

• Course fees for the academic year 2006-07 are as
  follows
• MA Modern English Language
• UK/EU students - 305 per 15 credits
• One year, full-time 180 credits x 305 3660
• Overseas students - 8000 per annum
• MA Modern English Language by Distance-learning
• UK/EU and Overseas students - 305 per 15 credits

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Funding opportunities

• AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)
• http//www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/postgraduate.asp
• UK and some EU students eligible
• Will fund Research Preparation Masters Scheme
• Full time fees of 3085 and a bursary of 8350
  (2005-06)
• Part-time fees of 1543 and a bursary of 275
  (2005-06)
• Application forms available from January 2007
• Deadline for applications is May 2007 but
  application form needs to be with us by 28
  February 2007

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Funding opportunities

• Potentially, School bursaries for Huddersfield
  graduates
• 500 to all Huddersfield graduates
• Larger bursaries of up to 2000 awarded on a
  competitive basis for academic excellence
• Other sources of funding
• http//www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/

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The English Website

• http//www.hud.ac.uk/mh/english/

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Language Staff publications 2005-06

• Alderson, J. C. and McIntyre, D. (2006)
  'Implementing and evaluating a self-assessment
  mechanism for the web-based Language and Style
  course', Language and Literature 15(3) 291-306.
• Bousfield, D. (2006) 'The Grand Debate Where
  next for politeness research?' Culture, Language
  and Representation Vol. III 9-16.
• Holt, E. and Clift, R. (eds) (2006) Reporting
  Talk Reported Speech in Interaction. Cambridge
  Cambridge University Press.
• Holt, E. (2006) 'I'm eyeing your chop up mind'
  reporting and enacting, in Holt, E. and Clift,
  R. (eds) Reporting Talk Reported Speech in
  Interaction. Cambridge Cambridge University
  Press.
• Holt, E. and Drew, P. (2005) 'Figurative pivots
  the use of figurative expressions in pivotal
  topic transitions', Research on Language and
  Social Interaction 38(1) 35-61.
• Jeffries, L. (2006) Discovering Language The
  Structure of Modern English. Basingstoke
  Palgrave Macmillan.
• Jeffries, L. (2006) 'Poetry stylistic aspects',
  in Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and
  Linguistics, 2nd edition, Vol. 9. Oxford
  Elsevier.
• Mahon, M. and Crutchley, A. (2006). Performance
  of typically-developing school-age children with
  English as a second language on the British
  Picture Vocabulary Scales II. Child Language
  Teaching and Therapy, 223 (333-351).
• McIntyre, D. (2006) Point of View in Plays A
  Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Viewpoint in
  Drama and Other Text-types. Amsterdam John
  Benjamins.
• Culpeper, J. and McIntyre, D. (2006) 'Drama
  stylistic aspects', in Brown, K. (ed.)
  Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd
  edition, Vol. 3, pp.772-85. Oxford Elsevier.
• McIntyre, D. (2005) 'Logic, reality and mind
  style in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van',
  Journal of Literary Semantics 34(1) 21-40.
• Montoro, R. (2006) 'Analysing literature through
  films' in Watson, G. and Zyngier, S. (eds)
  Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners
  Theory and Practice. Basingstoke Palgrave.