{"id":14815,"date":"2025-07-10T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/?page_id=14815"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:02:13","slug":"master-of-arts-in-english-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/master-of-arts-in-english-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of Arts in English"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14815\" class=\"elementor elementor-14815\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df6c722 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df6c722\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76462e6 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76462e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The curriculum of the Master of Arts degree in English represents two aspects of pedagogic principles: the necessity to maintain the delivery of a high quality education on par with international standards and a postgraduate education commensurate with changing trends and the imperatives of the contemporary world of work and life. The programme is designed as a composite programme in literature, language and critical theory, all of which are inter textual and inter related. Although there are no core courses, a balance between literature, language and discourse and theoretical studies will be maintained in the delivery of the programme.\u00a0<\/p><p>Courses offered:<\/p><table width=\"619\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"96\"><p><strong>Course Code <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p><strong>Course Title <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p><strong>Credits <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p><strong>Status\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 601<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>An Introduction to Select Critical Strategies and Research Methodologies in the Study of Language and Literature<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 602<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Advanced Critical Theory and Practice<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O\u00a0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 603<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Modernity, Its Discontents and Discontinuities<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG604\u00a0<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>An Introduction to the Study of Semantics and Pragmatics<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 605<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Bilingualism<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 606<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>An Introduction to the Study of Systemic Functional Grammar<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 607<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>English Language Learning \/ Teaching: Theory and Practice<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 608<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Learning\/ Teaching English in \u2018New \u2013 Englishes\u2019\u00a0 Contexts<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 609<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Up from Slavery: African American Writing across the Ages<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 610<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>The Sri Lankan Novel of Expatriation<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 611<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Narrating the Nation: The Contemporary South Asian Novel and the Nation<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 612<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Women\u2019s Fiction in English after 1800<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 613<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Twentieth and Twenty First Century English Fiction of India: Major Writers, Themes, and Issues<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 614<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Sri Lankan Literature in English and Its Contexts<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 615<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>The Writing of Empire: A Textual Study of the Contours of European Colonialism<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>3<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>O<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"96\"><p>ENG 696<\/p><\/td><td width=\"396\"><p>Guided Project<\/p><\/td><td width=\"66\"><p>6<\/p><\/td><td width=\"60\"><p>C<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Students should earn 24 credits from courses and 6 credits from the guided project to complete the degree.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0150b7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con 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