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Recognized as one of North America's most robust and varied graduate English programs, the University of Toronto's Graduate English Department provides diverse literary study approaches, blending thorough historical research with cutting-edge theoretical, cultural, and interdisciplinary techniques.
This breadth is reflected in the over 40 annual graduate seminars and through cross-departmental partnerships and specialized collaborative programs. Both the MA and PhD curricula deliver extensive knowledge of British, Canadian, Indigenous, American, and Postcolonial literatures, advanced training in contemporary theoretical frameworks, and outstanding resources for groundbreaking research initiatives.
A minimum of 7 full-year undergraduate courses in English or the equivalent in half-year courses (i.e., 14), or any combination of full- and half-year courses that add up to the equivalent of 7 full-year courses.
An appropriate bachelor's degree (i.e., a four-year undergraduate degree), or its equivalent (preferably in English), with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of B+ or better and evidence of first-class work in English. The department favours a broad training in the major genres and all periods of English literary history.
Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:
???600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE)
100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections.