BA English Literature
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I feel Buckingham CS department should check out the other like Lambala school and Udecity to improve themselves
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I recommend all of you to take advantage of the rich multi-cultural environment this university has to offer. Daily interaction with so many different people it's part of the learning process.
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They offer high-quality facilities to study, with excellent teachers. Place is open 24/24 so it’s a good place to focus because there are not clubs nearby. Still, you can find some bars, gym and shops in Buckingham and everything you need to STUDY!
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Bachelor's degree
In Buckingham
Learn how to read deeply and improves your sense of self!
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Buckingham
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Start date
Different dates available
English Literature here is taught to small groups by energetic and enthusiastic staff, led by Oxford-trained academics with international research profiles in 19th- and 20th-century studies. Ideas developed in core seminars are taken forward in weekly small-group tutorials, where half a dozen students are encouraged to discuss and interpret specific passages of writing, under the watchful guidance of their tutor.Our students are expected to read widely, and to develop strong lines of argument and personal responses to what they find, anchored in an informed understanding of the discipline and with reference to the critical debates that animate it. We believe, as Jeanette Winterson says, that “learning how to read deeply – and that means diverse and sometimes difficult texts – trains the brain and improves your sense of self. Learning how to write, even reasonably well, gives fluency to the rest of life”.
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Reviews
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I feel Buckingham CS department should check out the other like Lambala school and Udecity to improve themselves
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I recommend all of you to take advantage of the rich multi-cultural environment this university has to offer. Daily interaction with so many different people it's part of the learning process.
← | →
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They offer high-quality facilities to study, with excellent teachers. Place is open 24/24 so it’s a good place to focus because there are not clubs nearby. Still, you can find some bars, gym and shops in Buckingham and everything you need to STUDY!
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Henry
Former Student
Olivier Maigrot
This centre's achievements
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 14 years
Subjects
- Creative Writing
- English
- Film Studies
- Writing
- Poetry
- Renaissance Literature
- Dissertation
- Gothic
- Contemporary Writing
- Science Fiction
- Eras of English
- Fiction and Theory
- Literary Journalism
- Modern American Literature
- Modernist Writing
- Plays in Performance
Course programme
Modules available on this course
- Contemporary Writing
- Creative Writing 1
- Creative Writing 2
- Dissertation
- Eras of English
- Fiction and Theory
- Film Studies
- Gothic, Sensation and Science Fiction
- Literary Journalism (1642-present)
- Modern American Literature
- Modernist Writing
- Plays in Performance
- Poetry and Poetics
- Renaissance Literature
- Restoration and Augustan Literature
- Rewriting Empire
- Romantic Literature
- Shakespearean Drama
- Synoptic Study Unit
- 20th Century Theatre
- Victorian Fiction
- Victorian Poetry
- Women’s Writing
Dissertation
In your final year, you are given the opportunity to research, develop, and write a mini-dissertation of 6,000 – 8,000 words. This sounds daunting, but you have six months to complete it, and plenty of guidance from us, so many of our students have found it one of the most rewarding part of their studies.Among other outcomes, you should gain from this course:
- In-depth understanding of your chosen field of study.
- Experience of completing an individual piece of research through from conception to final, fully-documented work.
- Understanding of scholarly standards of objectivity, documentation, referencing and citation.
- A more nuanced sense of the complexities of contemporary critical practice.
The final dissertation has to be bound, fully ‘styled’ and sourced (in other words, a professional piece of report writing in every sense), and is your chance to connect together many of the skills you have acquired on the Literature programme here at Buckingham. Subjects presented recently include ‘The Idea of the Gentleman in Victorian Fiction,’ ‘Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Villains in Gothic Fiction,’ ‘Virginia Woolf’s prose fiction in the 1920s’, and ‘Sympathy and Alienation in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe’. Your bound dissertation makes an ideal accompaniment to your CV if you are applying for jobs where research and report-writing are important.
BA English Literature