BA English Literature with Psychology

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Bachelor's degree

In Buckingham

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Buckingham

  • 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.

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Buckingham (Buckinghamshire)
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Hunter Street, MK18 1EG

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Jessica

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19/04/2019
About the course: The university is small which allows you to meet and know your mates and staff a lot better than any bigger university.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • Psychology
  • English
  • Psychotherapy
  • Writing
  • Social Psychology
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Neuroscience

Course programme

The degree is structured around a combination of period study, thematic study, and modules inculcating theoretical and practical skills. Victorian literature modules cover prose from Dickens to Gaskell, and poetry from Browning to Hardy; twentieth-century literature topics range from Rhys, Hurston, Woolf, and Plath to Hemingway, Forster, Larkin, and Beckett. Shakespeare is one central focus. Other earlier writers who are studied include Marlowe, Donne, Webster, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Centlivre, Swift, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Keats, and Shelley. You can explore some of the modules on this website. Thematic study encourages students to analyse contextually based on sociological variations, gender, contemporary politics, and psychological influences. We encourage the understanding of contemporary literary and cultural theory while never losing sight of the values of liberal/aesthetic education.There are a wide variety of options in Psychology, including theoretical modules on personality, cognition, perception, social and developmental psychology and applied modules such as clinical psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, the psychology of crime and psychology of language. The range of psychology modules on offer allows the student to select the modules that best fit their needs and interests. The degree develops a portfolio of transferrable skills of great value to employers including lateral thinking, professional-level writing, rhetoric, presentation and knowledge of psychological theory and research.Graduates have gone on to pursue careers in a variety of fields. Some have taken further their studies in one or other of the subject-fields.Modules available on this course

English modules

  • Contemporary Writing
  • Creative Writing 1
  • Fiction and Theory
  • Film Studies
  • Literary Journalism (1642-present)
  • Modern American Literature
  • Modernist Writing
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration and Augustan Literature
  • Rewriting Empire
  • Romantic Literature
  • Shakespearean Drama
  • Victorian Fiction
  • Victorian Poetry
  • Women’s Writing

Psychology modules

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Biological Psychology
  • Business Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
  • Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
  • Creative Performance and Expertise
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Individual Differences
  • Introduction to Psychology 1 & 2
  • Perception
  • Social Psychology
  • Sports and Exercise Psychology

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BA English Literature with Psychology

Price on request