• The UBC English Graduate Program, one of the most vibrant and wide-ranging in Canada, has been awarding the MA degree.
  • University provides the flexibility to complete the MA program with or without a thesis, in one or two years. This program is offered on both a full-time or a part-time basis. 
  • The English Language program includes specializations in history and structure of language, discourse and genre analysis, and history and theory of rhetoric.
  • Faculty members in the Language program teach and supervise research in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, functional grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics, genre studies, and history and theory of rhetoric.