Master's English: the direction is more detailed, and it is divided into academic master and translation master. Among them, academic masters generally include English language and literature, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, and some schools offer translation studies. The direction is more detailed. Some schools also have special majors, such as business English research and English education.
Years of education
Undergraduate course: 4 years in general, and 5 years in some schools where English is a foreign language.
Master's English: academic master's degree is generally 3 years, and professional master's degree is generally 2 years. Some schools also adopt the whole 2.5-year system.
Registration restriction
Undergraduate: There is no limit. You can apply for the exam if you can graduate smoothly.
Master's English: Some schools prohibit cross-disciplinary examinations. There are some additional restrictions.
cut-off point
Undergraduate: Every school is different, but it only volunteers after graduation, and you can go wherever you want.
Master's English: Most schools draw national lines, and some schools draw them themselves. You must fight for your goal to the end.
Admission, transfer and posterior surgery
Undergraduate course: basically, you can enroll wherever you apply. There are few inter-school transfers, but there are professional internal transfers. For example, some students may be transferred to English major because of insufficient grades. I can't do it. I can only watch my friends become college students and I am still a middle school student. ...
Master of English: You have to go through a second interview before you can be admitted. You should make efforts to adjust, and you can't switch from English major to French major. The big deal is to prepare for the exam while working.
course content
Undergraduate course: In addition to compulsory public courses, there are also professional compulsory courses, such as listening, reading, writing, basic English, advanced English and Band 2. I started to study literature, linguistics, interpretation and translation in my junior year. Some schools offer interpretation and translation courses in senior two. Some English majors with distinctive directions are indeed diverted from junior year.
Master's English: Take the required courses of any major you enroll in. If you are interested in other courses, you can only use your free time to skip classes.
Generally speaking, English majors are more careful and have a clearer direction than undergraduates. English majors, no matter what direction, have a greater chance of winning any postgraduate exam for English majors than their cross-disciplinary classmates. After all, you, a trained person, have cultivated English literacy from the beginning. Students who have taken three core professional courses (English and American literature, linguistics and translation) will find their own interests more easily. Students who take the academic master's degree have some advantages over those who have no foundation. The start time of preparing for the exam can start from the summer vacation at the latest. To prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination for English majors, interdisciplinary students should learn core advanced English well, and then carry out targeted study according to the selected direction. Students who want to apply for an academic master's degree must learn a second foreign language. Because there are many things to learn, it takes at least one and a half years or even two years to prepare for the exam.