The General Pathway offers a flexible and bespoke route of MA study, allowing you take modules from across other MA English Literature pathways (Renaissance and Eighteenth Century, Victorian, Modern and Contemporary and Science Fiction). You will acquire the necessary research skills for advanced literary scholarship, while having the opportunity to pursue areas of interest across historical periods and in a wide variety of genres. The focus of our modules ranges from slavery and empire in Elizabethan writing to the body in contemporary literature, and from Victorian Gothic to fictions of technology in SF.

GPA requirements may differ depending on the country you where you graduated. To study for a master's degree at the University of Liverpool, you must first complete the pre-master's courses offered by the University. Also, your study period can be extended if your English language skills are not good. Bear in mind that this program requires a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 (Listening 6, Reading 6, Writing 6, Speaking 6), or a minimum TOEFL score of 88 (Listening 19, Writing 19, Reading 19, Speaking 20).