Expertise is additionally available in some areas of language study.
Research degrees are closely supervised on an individual basis by a main supervisor and a back-up supervisor, or sometimes jointly. Additionally, all students take a seminar course of one semester's duration on Research Methods, Bibliography, and Writing Skills. The other staff-graduate seminar involves the presentation and discussion of formal research papers, often given by speakers from outside Leicester. Assessment for the degrees of PhD and MPhil is by thesis and final oral examination. MA course in Victoria Studies.