BA Art and English Literature QW31

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 4 Years
This degree lets you engage in substantial practical work in the studio, develop your understanding of ideas and theories in Contemporary Art, and explore English literature from every era and across the globe. You will see how debates across the creative arts are reflected in dynamic ways across the two subjects.
Join a lively community at one of the top art departments in the UK. You can explore a vast range of media, experiment with emerging art forms and develop as an artist. You will complement your practical art with modules in Contemporary Art theory and the History of Art. The studios are busy places with events, screenings, performances and exhibitions regularly taking place. You will receive a dedicated space, accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and a studio tutor to help develop your individual and professional practice.
Trips to museums and art galleries help prompt thoughts on how art is displayed and received. You will gain professional experience by taking part in your own exhibitions, public art commissions and events. Your teaching staff are all artists, curators and researchers of international standing and will encourage regular exhibitions and open debate.
In your English Literature modules, you will read more of authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But you will also encounter aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction.
As you progress through your degree, your module choices become more diverse and specialised: you can do archive work on "Studying manuscripts", or look at the politics of literature in "Writing global justice". Everyone in the English Department, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Art
  • English
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Shakespeare
  • Restoration
  • Global
  • International

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
  • Reading Objects, Writing Images
  • Genre and Context
  • Poetry in English
  • Research and Criticism

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio including Career Management Skills
Optional modules include:
  • Critical Collaborative Methods
  • Aesthetic and Anti Aesthetic
  • Visual Thinking and Material Writing
  • International Study Visit
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Lyric Voices
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Contemporary Art and Theory
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • Formations of Modernism
  • Restoration to Revolution
  • The Romantic Period
  • Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
  • Victorian Literature
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising
  • Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
  • Shakespeare
  • Writing Genre, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • The Business of Books

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
Optional modules include:
  • Image Action Text
  • Affect, Aesthetics and the Event
  • Utopias and Other Worlds
  • Landscape and Memory
  • Independent Study
  • Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
  • Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
  • Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
  • 'Eyes on the Prize': Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Black British Fiction
  • Children's Literature
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Class Matters
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
  • Dickens
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
  • Hitchcock
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • Irish Poetry after Yeats
  • James Joyce
  • John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern Epic
  • Modern Scottish Fiction: From Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Packaging Literature
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Science in Culture
  • Shakespeare on Film
  • The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sex and Sensibility
  • The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
  • English Dissertation

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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