New Inter-university Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (iMAES)

07/06/2013

The Inter-university Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications (iMAES), run by the Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo), in Galicia (Northwestern Spain), is an accredited programme which meets the high standards of excellence of the European System of Higher Education. The Master is a one-year academic programme consisting of 60 ECTS. Classes are held at each of the three organising universities, so that students can choose the location and schedule that best suit their needs and interests. The Master consists of both attendance-based and online training, each course (3 ECTS) involving 14 classroom hours and 7 hours online coursework. There is also a Master’s thesis (12 ECTS), and a practicum module (6 ECTS) which affords students a unique opportunity to work with outside organisations with which the organising universities have established partnership arrangements. The Master prepares students for the demanding standards of the international job market and is oriented towards the formation of specialists in the areas of English language and linguistics, and Anglo-American literary and cultural studies.

The Master also allows students to begin work on a PhD, in that it provides the preparatory coursework required for writing a PhD dissertation. It constitutes the pre-requisite coursework for the Inter-university PhD Programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, also jointly organised by the Universities of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña and Vigo.