BA English
Course Overview
This Bachelor of Arts in English provides a comprehensive exploration of English literature from its medieval origins to its contemporary global forms. The highly flexible curriculum allows you to tailor your degree around your specific interests, guided by expert faculty with diverse specializations. You will graduate with a formidable breadth of literary knowledge and a versatile skill set highly valued by employers.
Key Program Highlights
- Explore the full historical scope of English literature, from medieval romances to postmodern fiction
- Customize your degree with a wide variety of specialized option modules to match your passions
- Learn from expert faculty active in research fields from Gothic literature to post-colonial studies
- Gain practical career experience through dedicated employability modules in publishing and teaching
- Complement literary studies with options in Creative Writing, Film Studies, History, or modern languages
Course Overview
This Bachelor of Arts in English provides a comprehensive exploration of English literature from its medieval origins to its contemporary global forms. The highly flexible curriculum allows you to tailor your degree around your specific interests, guided by expert faculty with diverse specializations. You will graduate with a formidable breadth of literary knowledge and a versatile skill set highly valued by employers.
Key Program Highlights
- Explore the full historical scope of English literature, from medieval romances to postmodern fiction
- Customize your degree with a wide variety of specialized option modules to match your passions
- Learn from expert faculty active in research fields from Gothic literature to post-colonial studies
- Gain practical career experience through dedicated employability modules in publishing and teaching
- Complement literary studies with options in Creative Writing, Film Studies, History, or modern languages
Requirements
Modules
- Reading Poetry
- Writing Matters
- The Novel Around the World
- Renaissance Drama
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 1
- Film and Literature
- Feminist Fiction
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 2
- Literature for Children and Young Adults
- Historical Fiction
- Critical Perspectives 1
- Critical Perspectives 2
- Romantic Literature from Blake to Shelley
- Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Diversity in Contemporary American Literature
- Using Stories
- Gothic
- Modern Literature from Conrad to Orwell
- Contemporary Literature from 1945 to Now
- Advanced Creative Writing Skills
- Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
- English and Arts Journalism
- English and Education
- Dissertation (English)
- Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
- Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time
- Writing Voices
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Weird Fiction/Weird Film
- The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
- Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
- Tragedy
- Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
- Writing Prose Fiction
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
