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| School | Western University - School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | | |
| Location | London, ON, Canada | | |
| School Type | Graduate School | | |
| School Size | Full-time Undergraduate: 25,991
Full-time Graduate: 3,869 | | |
| Degree | Master | | |
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| Length | 1 Year(s) | | |
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| Prerequisites Notes | Admission Requirements:
▪ Honours B.A. in English or in English combined with another subject.
▪ Achieved at least an A minus average in the Honours English courses of their B.A. program.
Applicants to M.A. programs at Western must possess a four-year degree from an accredited university. Applicants to the M.A. in English and Writing Studies must have a major or specialization in English, and have achieved an average of at least A- in this major. Students with a general three-year B.A.are required to upgrade their degree to a four-year Honours degree before applying to our M.A. program. Students needing to do this should contact an Academic Counselor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (or the equivalent at their home university) to determine the procedure and requirements necessary.
Students with a general three-year BA are required to take enough courses at the undergraduate level in order to upgrade their degree to a four year Honors degree before applying to our MA programs. Students needing to do this should contact an Academic Counsellor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (or the equivalent at their home university) to determine the procedure and requirements necessary. | | |
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| Description | The Department's graduate program ranks as one of the strongest and most diversified graduate programs in Canada. Its central attraction is the Department's distinguished faculty and its considerable accomplishments in all areas of criticism and scholarship. The faculty's range of expertise provides the advantages of traditional scholarship and an array of historical approaches to the major literary periods and genres, as well as diverse theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives that include discourse analysis, cultural studies, postcolonial literature and theory, feminist and gender studies, gay studies and theories of masculinity, ecological criticism, film, hypertext, theories of race, and the intersection between literature and the discourses of science, medicine, music, art, and law. | | |
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