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CRICOS code (International applicants): 047279C

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Telephone 1800 007 252 (within Australia freecall), +61 7 4631 2285 (from outside Australia), email usq.support@usq.edu.au or submit a question via .

Program focus

The Master of Arts (English Studies) has been designed to accommodate the needs of practising secondary school teachers seeking career development opportunities as required by the Queensland Department of Education, as well as students seeking a pathway to the PhD program and anyone interested in pursuing a love of English Literature. The eight unit degree is designed for students seeking to extend their knowledge of English literature and the range of methodologies historically and currently applied in the field.

Program aims

The Master of Arts (English Studies) has been designed to accommodate the needs of practising secondary school teachers seeking career development opportunities as required by the Queensland Department of Education. The eight unit degree is designed for students seeking to extend their knowledge of English studies and the range of methodologies historically and currently applied in the field. It will provide an alternative to the MEd for those students specifically seeking to enhance their knowledge of discipline content. In particular, the program has been designed to enhance students' knowledge of theoretical approaches and applied content that will be required in the new school English Studies curriculum. It extends a percentage of the content of the curriculum into the area of cultural studies, media studies, popular cultural forms and comparisons between canonical and popular forms.

Program objectives

The Master of Arts (English Studies) aims to:

• provide in-depth study of defined areas of English studies

• facilitate the development and consolidation of a body of specialist knowledge and competencies in the field of English studies with specific reference to the changing definitions of the senior secondary schools curriculum

• develop in students an understanding and awareness of scholarly literature and research in English studies

• extend the knowledge base and critical approaches in ways that are useful to practising secondary school English teachers

• encourage and develop skills and knowledge related to independent inquiry and/or research in order to produce reports to a professionally or academically knowledgeable audience.

Admission requirements

Normal Entry

Students will need to have a four-year qualification such as BA (Honours), BA/Dip Ed or BA/BEd with a major in English Literature; such students will normally complete 8 units.

Special Entry

Students with a three-year qualification such as a BA with a major or substantial study in English Literature and evidence of continued engagement with the discipline may be granted special entry on the recommendation of the Head of Discipline; such students may be required to complete 12 units.

International applicants must have met the or have completed the .

Program fees

Domestic full fee paying place

Domestic full fee paying places are funded entirely through the full fees paid by the student. Full fees vary depending on the courses that are taken. You are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .
Domestic full fee paying students may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called provided they meet the residency and citizenship requirements.
Australian citizens, Permanent Humanitarian Visa holders, Permanent Resident visa holders and New Zealand citizens who will be resident outside Australia for the duration of their program pay full tuition fees and are not eligible for .

International full fee paying place

International students pay full fees. Full fees vary depending on the courses that are taken and whether they are studied on-campus, via distance education/online. You are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .

Program structure

Students will undertake courses to the value of eight as listed below.

The MA (English Studies) is designed to share courses with the BA (Hons), and it is intended that on-campus students in both programs will attend a common seminar. Courses shared by the two programs are Cultural Theory, Critical Theory, Representing Australia, Reading Other Cultures, From Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan, and the Dissertation courses.

Required time limits

Students have a maximum of 5 years to complete this program.

Exemptions

Students are eligible for exemptions as per .

Recommended enrolment pattern