Discipline	Arts and Humanities
Program Level	Post Graduate (PG)
Qualification	Master of Arts (MA)
Total Seats	22
Program Duration(in Months)	24
Classroom Hours	1360
Examination/Course Pattern	semester
Program Description	The main objective of the MA English Programme is to train students in negotiating cultural discourses as literature, drama and films. The courses are structured around British literature from Chaucer onwards. Literary texts from Elizabethan, Restoration, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian and the Modern are taken up for analysis in relation to the ages of the production of the texts. The pogramme aims at educating the student in a broader way. While it begins by laying firm foundations for a discerning response to literature and culture of one nation, it does not limit itself to an exclusive study of a single nation, single language and single literature. The programme introduces the students to a multitude of literatures from around the world (Nineteenth Century American Literature, European Classics in English Translation, African-American Fiction, American Drama and Canadian Literature in English). The programme also makes a focused study of Indian literature across genres from the classical period to the contemporary times. Along with this, it includes in its ambit, a discussion of contemporary intellectual and theoretical positions concerning gender, sex, language, colonialism, post colonialism, Marxism, modernism , postmodernism, structuralism and post structuralism. The different schools of thought are primarily handled through the courses on literary criticism and softcore papers such as Dalit literature, Gender studies, Women writing in India and film studies. The programme also aims at creating teachers of English at college level. With this view, a specially designed language teaching course is offered as also a paper on the structure of the English language. These courses are further supported with a language lab (11 computers), training students in phonetics and grammar.
Admission & entry requirements	Candidates who have passed any three years Degree examination of Mangalore University or any other University considered as equivalent thereto with English as major/optional subject(the cognate subject) are eligible to apply for the Masters programme provided they have secured a minimum of 45%(40% for SC/ST/Category-1 candidates) marks in the cognate subject. Candidates who have studied English as either the first or second Language at the graduate degree level for not less than two years/four semesters and candidates who have studied Additional English of Mangalore University for not less than two years/four semesters are also eligible to apply provided such applicants have scored not less than 60% marks in aggregate in the examination of the subject. The marks scored in the English First or Second Language examinations or Additional English examinations would be equated with the marks of optional English (the cognate subject) as follows: 1. 60% in English First or Second Language to 45% of optional English (the cognate subject) 2. 60% in Additional English is equal to 48% of optional English (the cognate subject). Intake as per seat matrix provided by the government from time to time, including self-financing category and additional seats as decided by the University time to time.