BA (Hons) English Literature with Placement Year

Course overview

Study level: Undergraduate

Coventry University’s English Literature course offers you the opportunity to study literature of all periods from the Medieval to the present day.

The English Literature BA (Hons) course at Coventry University is for students with a passion for literature who want to further develop their knowledge of the major genres and periods of English literature, as well as explore Anglophone writing and literature in translation from around the world.

• Analyse the gothic, fantasy and speculative fictions, African-American literature, Anglophone world literatures, and literatures of the American West.
• Discover a wide range of novels, plays and poetry from the ancient to the contemporary, and from the local (the Midlands in the UK) to the global.
• This course offers you the chance to spend three years analysing texts and exploring great writing.