BA (Hons) English Literature
Course Overview
If you love reading, debating ideas, and discovering new authors and texts, our English Literature degree will help you turn that curiosity into skills and knowledge to last a lifetime. You’ll study everything from time-honoured classics of English Literature to contemporary writing from across the world, thanks to our diverse variety of modules. Our distinctive degree structure fosters an interdisciplinary culture, so you’ll work alongside students from courses ranging from history to film studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Feel seen, heard and supported. A small subject area where tutors know you personally and you regularly meet with your Personal Academic Tutor.
- Perform to the best of your abilities. There are no formal exams. Instead, we set coursework challenges, imaginative projects and real-world tasks.
- Support for your future. Enjoy practical work experience and guidance from our top-quality careers service as you immerse yourself in Literature.
- Full-time study information has been captured where available from the official source.
- Source-listed duration: 3 years full-time.
Course Overview
If you love reading, debating ideas, and discovering new authors and texts, our English Literature degree will help you turn that curiosity into skills and knowledge to last a lifetime. You’ll study everything from time-honoured classics of English Literature to contemporary writing from across the world, thanks to our diverse variety of modules. Our distinctive degree structure fosters an interdisciplinary culture, so you’ll work alongside students from courses ranging from history to film studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Feel seen, heard and supported. A small subject area where tutors know you personally and you regularly meet with your Personal Academic Tutor.
- Perform to the best of your abilities. There are no formal exams. Instead, we set coursework challenges, imaginative projects and real-world tasks.
- Support for your future. Enjoy practical work experience and guidance from our top-quality careers service as you immerse yourself in Literature.
- Full-time study information has been captured where available from the official source.
- Source-listed duration: 3 years full-time.
Requirements
Modules
- Critical Thinking
- Introduction to English Literature
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to English Language
- The Gothic
- Researching the Humanities
- Work Experience Placement
- History of English
- The Victorian Novel
- American Poetry from the 19th Century to the Present Day
- Shakespeare Now and Then
- Twentieth Century Fiction
- Arts and Humanities Placement
- Public Humanities
- World Literature
- Dissertation
- Twentieth Century Drama
- Twentieth Century Poetry
- Extraordinary Gentlemen: Masculinity and Popular Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
- Voices of the Holocaust
