MA English at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune Offline Course

Master of Arts (MA) in English is a full-time two-year postgraduate course and it is offered by the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. 

The college has started M.A. in English w. e. f. the academic year 2016-17. The Master of Arts in English is designed to help students develop strong analytical skills and grounding in diverse critical and theoretical approaches. The programme helps students develop specialization in a particular area of English literary studies. The course aims at generating qualified, competent and articulate human resource capable of contributing to relevant domains of knowledge.

An important objective of the Master's programme is to introduce students to advanced study and scholarly activity in order to provide an avenue towards a PhD for those who wish eventually to seek a career in academia. In addition, the course is designed to provide a reasonably complete higher education in literary studies for those who do not intend to proceed to a further degree in the field, but who may branch into other areas as diverse as publishing, editing, journalism, administration, management, communications, or teaching at the high school level.

The programme offers various compulsory courses providing training in Linguistics and English language, grounding in the genre, eras, and movements in literature in English, a hands-on acquaintance with literary criticism as well as literary and critical theory. To create informed and motivated scholars, academics, litterateurs and communicators this programme adopts a comparative, contextualized and interdisciplinary perspective is drawn from the contemporary view of literature and culture.