B.A. English Literature

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

Oxford Brookes University has one of the best and most innovative English departments in the country. In this English Literature course you will be taught by staff who are experts in their field and whose publications contribute to the development of the subject but who also value the opportunity to share their ideas with students.

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Location

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Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, OX3 0BP

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About this course

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Subjects

  • English
  • Writing
  • Options
  • Creative Writing

Course programme

Course Content

Throughout your studies you will have a wide choice of modules, allowing you to pursue your interests. We regularly review and update the modules we offer, so it is possible that the options available to you will differ slightly from those listed here.

Year 1 Modules include:
  • Culture, Criticism, Literature 1 & 2 **
  • Shakespeare**
  • Critical Theory In Action*.
(**Compulsory for single and combined honours; *compulsory for single honours.)

You will also have the opportunity to add modules from the following:

  • World Literature
  • Creative Writing
  • Approaches to Performance
  • Texts in Performance.
Years 2 and 3

As a second-year student you will be able to choose between the following compulsory core modules, which broaden and deepen your knowledge and skills gained in Year 1.

  • Landscape and Mindscapes*
  • American Vistas*
  • Culture, Crime and Transgression*
  • The Culture of Modernity*.

(*Core modules of which single honours students must choose at least two, and combined honours students must choose at least one.)

Alongside your compulsory modules, you will have the opportunity to choose from a range of options which enable you to begin specialising in the areas of literary study that most interest you. These options change from year to year but include:
  • Tragedy
  • Renaissance Love Poetry
  • Creative Writing
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Witchcraft and Magic in Literature
  • Satire
  • The Pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian Literary Imagination
  • WWW: Wired Writing Worlds
  • Post-War American Fiction
  • Possible Worlds: Science Fiction
  • Victorian Poetry
  • Avant-Garde Poetries
  • Independent Study in English Studies
  • Work Placement in English.
In your final year of study, you will specialise even further by taking optional modules related specifically to the areas of English literary research in which your lecturers are engaged and in which they publish.

Contemporary Literature (Synoptic Module)

This module explores literature of the last ten years, and considers how issues directly relevant to students’ lives such as globalisation, post-9/11 culture, and digitalisation are being debated in literary texts.

Advanced Options modules

These options offer you the opportunity to develop deep knowledge through working with experts on research-led topics. Single honours students can choose up to three options; combined honours students can choose up to two. Options change each year, and include:
  • African-American Avant-Gardes
  • The Theatrical City
  • The Middlebrow Novel
  • Literature, Technology, Culture
  • Postcolonial Writing
  • Literature and Madness
  • Creative Writing
  • The Gendered Self
  • Ecology and Romanticism
  • The Victorian Supernatural
  • American Modernism
  • Utopian/Dystopian Writing

Dissertation Module

You will work one-to-one with a specialist lecturer to devise, research and write a 10,000-word project. The topic is entirely of your own choosing, and gives you a degree-ending capstone which tests all the skills of literary research, critical reading, time management, planning and focused writing that you have learned over the course of your studies. You may use the dissertation as an opportunity to focus on a familiar area, or to address a subject not covered by the curriculum. Combined honours students have the option of writing a dissertation which embraces both their chosen subject areas.

B.A. English Literature

Price on request