The English program is distinctive for its emphasis on developing nuanced and mature literary sensibilities by employing the most contemporary scholarship to the latest emerging English sub-fields. Moving away from the more conventional study of periodisation through the centuries, the program offers innovative and challenging courses on sub-fields such as Indian Literature (modern and premodern), world literature, as well as emerging areas such as Film, Environment and Gender Studies. Students are trained in rigorous in-depth textual analysis and encouraged to develop sophisticated writing and research skills. The program prides itself on re-imagining scholastic and creative engagement with literatures --? modernist, contemporary, in translation, in varied genres -- across a wide spectrum, even as the student is encouraged to specialize in pathways that may lead to doctoral projects in India or abroad.?

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The Masters of Arts program offered at the 365体育投注 Campus immerses students in a multidisciplinary environment to prepare them to specialise in a domain that they gradually, and with guidance, choose. MISHA as a whole is a one-of-a-kind program which has been curated based on diverse expertise: English, European Studies, History, Philosophy, and Sociology. In the first semester, the student is introduced to wide-ranging themes: from contemporary literary and digital cultures to European politics and society, from Indian philosophical texts to Continental systems of thought, from theoretical orientation to training in fieldwork and in archives.

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From the second semester onward, the English program will move toward a broader Domain expertise. The idea is that students will increasingly specialise in a domain of their choice—this will be presented through the second and third semester, culminating in a fourth semester extensive research project that can serve as a doctoral pathway. Students also have the option to exit, as per NEP, after the second semester, with a diploma.

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With a research-driven pedagogy that blends interactive learning, MOOCs, and self-directed study, the English program strikes a thoughtful balance between multidisciplinary breadth and domain expertise.

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The English program strongly encourages the development of research skills and temperament in a young scholar. At the heart of the MA program is a student’s work towards their thesis, a substantial and original project of academic research and writing.? Working closely with faculty expertise, students are taught to find a subject area that they are strongly drawn to. Through this phase of research and writing, students cultivate deep disciplinary knowledge alongside broad-based research capabilities that serve in academia and beyond.?

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The duration of the MA program is four semesters spread across two years.

The first semester exposes the students to all five domains through five foundation courses that orient them to the latest methodologies in the humanities and social sciences.

The second and third semesters offer students the opportunity to specialise through ten courses that are offered by relevant experts in the chosen domain. Two of the courses in the third semester are considered focus courses that are devoted to subjects that the student would like to develop in their individual research profile.

This leads to the fourth and final semester that is devoted the writing of a personalised thesis under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

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The emphasis of the MA program is on developing research-intensive skills in the students that make them capable of competing for admissions to top international and national doctoral programs. Towards this, students receive one-on-one mentorship and guidance that includes institutional support through documents and recommendation letters. Several of our alumni have received fully-funded or partially-funded doctoral admissions to international universities such as Oxford, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, as well as top national institutions such as the IITs and top-ranked central universities.