Master of Arts (MA) in English and Film Studies

Wilfrid Laurier University

Laurier’s redesigned Master of Arts (MA) in English and Film Studies offers courses and faculty expertise in English literature and global cultures, film and media studies, and professional skills. You will develop your understanding of the discipline, and improve your critical thinking and communication skills through analysis and research.

The program teaches you to apply your critical thinking and communication skills in concrete situations, through practical assignments and projects such as organizing debates and class colloquia, and through producing conference papers, chapbooks, book and film reviews, author interviews, blogs, reports and media releases. Our program also gives you the opportunity to put your knowledge into practice as teaching assistants in the department and in an optional Professional Skills placement in the spring term.

Works to be studied may include: fiction, film, poetry, autobiography, drama, graphic narratives, digital and visual media, travelogues and essays.

Ideas relevant to our fields of study include gender, representation, aesthetics, narrative, adaptation, memory, identity and genre. Our faculty has a diverse range of expertise in areas such as global culture, periodical culture, music, memory, animation, gaming, youth culture, ecocriticism, human rights, media history, life writing and diaspora.

Careers

Our graduates have gone on to do doctoral work in English, women’s studies, Canadian studies and cinema and television studies in Canada, the United States and England.

Our graduates also go on to successful careers in publishing, education, government, media and entertainment, journalism, law and more. Graduates find employment in areas that require creativity, writing and oral presentation skills, and research abilities.

Examples of jobs held by our graduates include:

acquisitions editor for a university press
CBC researcher
high school teacher
marketer
public relations specialist