Postgraduate

Honours in English

An Honours degree in English is the culmination of coursework in this subject at most universities. The University of Pretoria's course is exciting and stimulating as well as challenging.

Programme Manager: Prof. C. Sandwith, [email protected].

The Honours degree consists of:

• A compulsory fundamental module, ENG 701: Poetics & Literary Theory

• A compulsory mini-dissertation, ENG 778 Essay

• Five of the following core modules (note that not all courses run every year, and that a minimum of five students must take a module for the module to run):

1. ENG 703 African Literature I 
2. ENG 704 African Literature II
3. ENG 708 Introduction to TESOL
4. ENG 773 Children's Literature
5. ENG 776 English Grammar and Phonology
6. ENG 777 Editing: Principles and Practice
7. ENG 780 Creative Writing
8. ENZ 701 Medieval Literature
9. ENZ 710 Shakespeare and his times
10. ENG 760 Reading Popular Culture
11. ENZ 705 The Augustan Vision
12. ENZ 706 The Romance in England
13. ENZ 771 Modernism
14. ENZ 772 Postmodernism

Full-time students are encouraged to complete the course in one year; part time students should consider taking eighteen months or two years.

MA in ENGLISH

Students can register for a research MA culminating in a dissertation:

ENG 890 Dissertation: English

Contact the programme manager: Prof D Medalie, [email protected]

PhD in ENGLISH 

Students can register for a PhD in English, focusing on literature or language. The research culminates in a doctoral thesis and an examination:

ENG 990 Thesis: English

Contact the programme manager: Prof D Medalie, [email protected]

MA in Creative Writing

Students complete a creative work (poetry, fiction, screenplay, drama) and a dissertation of limited scope.

Contact the programme manager: Prof D Medalie, [email protected]

PhD in Creative Writing

Students complete a creative work (poetry, fiction, screenplay, drama) and a thesis.

Contact the programme manager: Prof D Medalie, [email protected]