• Dalhousie University offers a Master of Arts in English for a duration of 1 year.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on both a full-time and a part-time basis.
  • The graduate program is small and selected that the university takes admission of only 15 MA students per year.
  • The MA in English is designed to be completed in one calendar year (September to August) and the majority of the students receive scholarship funding and a teaching assistant position.
  • Students have to complete six half-year graduate seminars i.e. 3 in the Fall semester and 3 in the Winter semester, as well as successfully pass a non-credit seminar in professionalization team-taught by faculty.
  • Students have to attend seminars and the seminars are collegial and students preparing for qualifying examinations or writing theses can have close contact with supervisors.
  • Dalhousie’s program is one of the few in Canada that requires students to write a 10,000-12,000 word thesis with a thesis supervisor.
  • Students are also required to undertake the Thesis Prospectus course that prepares students to complete the thesis project from May to August.
  • All MA students are given the opportunity to work as Teaching Assistants in the Department.
  • Students will develop skills and experience in teaching, writing, research, communications, and inter-professional collaboration, which are assets on the job market and essential for professional degrees and competitive PhD programs.
  • Part-time MA students complete the degree over 3 years and are eligible to apply for teaching assistant positions.
  • The department of English provides the opportunity to participate in experiential courses in creative writing, tutoring, and editing. It also provides the opportunity to study with internationally recognized scholars and writers.
  • The average salary goes up to 49,000 USD after completion of the program.