A-Level English Literature

A Level

Online

£ 64/month + VAT

Description

  • Type

    A Level

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    12 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our home study A-level English literature course will give you a wide appreciation of some of the greatest literature, both poetry and prose, ever written. The course will provide you with the ability to write clearly and effectively and to analyse complex texts in different forms and styles. Designed to to help you achieve the best possible grade in your examination.

This Literature A-Level course encourages students to understand how narrative works, to look at genre and to learn about critical approaches to texts. Encouraging wide and independent reading, the course also considers different types of critical approach and how texts can reflect different period and cultural meanings. You will learn skills of effective and appropriate communication including the ability to discuss the critical context of texts.

This Oxbridge Home Learning course has been designed to be completed from your home at your own pace. It's flexible, convenient and comprehensive. Studying English literature broadens your horizons intellectually and career-wise, as it helps you to develop valuable analytical and expressive skills that are highly prized by any employer.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Online

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

On this course you will:

Engage creatively and critically with a wide range of poetry, prose and drama texts.
Deepen your knowledge and awareness of literary techniques and traditions should be significantly improved.
Have gained a sophisticated understanding of the relationship between literary texts and their contexts in the wider world.
Will develop the ability to analyse literary texts and communicate complex literary arguments using appropriate technical terminology.

Upon successful completion of this home learning course you will receive an A-Level qualification. Both AS and A2 level courses and examinations must be successfully completed to gain the full A level. This syllabus has been chosen specifically because it is the best suited to distance learning.

This A-level builds on the course content of GCSE, although it is not necessary to have this qualification before undertaking this A-level.

Questions & Answers

Add your question

Our advisors and other users will be able to reply to you

Who would you like to address this question to?

Fill in your details to get a reply

We will only publish your name and question

Reviews

This centre's achievements

2017

All courses are up to date

The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 8 years

Subjects

  • Works
  • English
  • Drama
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Literature
  • Expressive skills
  • Sophisticated
  • Cultural meanings
  • Technical terminology

Teachers and trainers (1)

Oxbridge Home Learning Oxbridge Home Learning

Oxbridge Home Learning Oxbridge Home Learning

Tutor

Course programme

Section 1 - Love through the ages: Othello
  • Introduction to Shakespeare studies
  • Othello Act I
  • Othello Act II
  • Othello Act III Part 1
  • Othello Act III Part 2
  • Othello Act IV
  • Othello Act V
Section 2 - Love through the ages: The Great Gatsby
  • Chapter 1: Setting the scene
  • Chapter 2: Tom and Myrtle
  • Chapter 3: Gatsby's party
  • Chapter 4: Back stories
  • Chapter 5: The reunion
  • Chapter 6: Another party
  • Chapter 7: Turning point
  • Aftermath
Section 3 - Love through the ages: pre-1900 poetry
  • Destructive love
  • Lust
  • Idealised love
  • Lost love 1
  • Lost love 2
Section 4 - Love through the ages: unseen poetry
  • Unrequited love
  • Abandonment
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Separation
  • Celebration
  • Anticipation
  • To a husband
  • Mourning
Section 5 - Preparing for the non-exam assesment (NEA)
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
  • A View from the Bridge Act I
  • A View from the Bridge Act II
  • Writing the NEA
Section 6 - Modern times: Spies
  • Spies Chapter 1
  • Spies Chapter 2
  • Spies Chapters 3 and 4
  • Spies Chapters 5 and 6
  • Spies Chapters 7 and 8
  • Spies Chapters 9 to 11
Section 7 - Modern times: All My Sons
  • All My Sons Act I
  • All My Sons Act II
  • All My Sons Act III
Section 8 - Modern times: Skirrid Hill
  • Variants of love
  • Love and loss
  • Growing up
  • Love and the land
  • Love, war and politics
  • Shadows
  • Crossing continents
Section 9 - Unseen prose
  • The Amateur Marriage
  • The Buddha of Suburbia
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Enduring Love
  • Mr Phillips
  • The Remains of the Day
  • The Secret History
  • Stoner

A-Level English Literature

£ 64/month + VAT