University of Malta UNIVERSITY OF MALTA 
FACULTY OF ARTS
Department of English
About the Department 
 

Welcome to the Department of English

The Department offers a variety of compulsory and optional courses at B.A., B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. (Qualifying) levels.

In the B.A. Course the study programme is divided into five major components:

  • Drama:  early Tudor to modern and contemporary theatre;
  • Poetry:  Middle English, Renaissance to contemporary;
  • Novel:  Rise of the genre through to contemporary fiction;
  • Theories of Literature and Practical Criticism; and
  • Language:  Phonetics, phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis and field methods in linguistics.
The Departmental M.A. and Ph.D. programmes are based on supervised research.
Candidates following the M.A. Course are also expected to take the compulsory course in Advanced Literary Theory.
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