BA (Hons) English Literature
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Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
Our English Literature programme is large and varied, offering you plenty of choice. We balance the study of canonical writers – Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Bronte – with texts and writers who may be less familiar to you.
Options range from modules on specific authors (such as Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf), to topic-based subjects (Writing and the Environment, Post-Colonial Literatures), period-based study (Gender and Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Romanticism) and popular genres (Gothic Origins and Innovations, Crime Fiction). We’ll encourage you to explore diverse areas of literature and to investigate issues that matter to you in your final year project.
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About this course
You’ll study a broad and diverse range of intellectually stimulating modules. You’ll benefit from the fact that English modules reflect our tutors’ areas of research specialism.
Each year has a core module, as well as a large selection of optional modules from which you can choose. These modules are organised around a number of key strands running through the programme – Transnational English Literature; Medical Humanities; and Digital Humanities – but you can choose to study any of the available modules and develop your own literary interests.
Our students go on to higher degrees, to teaching, journalism and PR/marketing, librarianship, and to other careers where excellent communication skills and analytical abilities are valued, such as arts management and the civil service.
Through Artswork, our Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, you’ll have access to cutting-edge resources in the areas of publishing and broadcast media to prepare you for careers or for self-employment in the media and creative industries. We have a wealth of contacts in the media and creative industries and our students are well-placed to gain internships and placements.
List of current alumni careers
Many of our graduates pursue careers in publishing or teaching. Organisations including New Scientist, Trinity College Library, DigitalBox and Cengage Learning EMEA have employed our graduates. Graduate professions include:
Editorial Assistant;
Publishing Outreach Executive;
Content Writer; and
Campaigns Officer.
Some graduates choose to progress onto postgraduate study.
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed below:
A Level - Grade BCC accepted with a minimum of Grade B in English or related subject.
BTEC - Extended Diploma grades Distinction. Merit, Merit (DMM) in a related subject accepted.
International Baccalaureate - A minimum of 27 points are required with evidence of study in Higher level English.
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Peaceful uni campus, I loved my time at the campus and you'll see 80% women. Courses were good and I enjoyed.
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Experience was totally worth it, involves a lot of hard work.
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It was fun to be there. The university is good
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Subjects
- Psychology
- English
- Project
- Writing
- Poetry
- Shakespeare
- English Literature
- Crime Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Digital Humanities
- Contemporary Crime Fiction
- Environmental Crisis
Course programme
All students take Critical Reading I in the first year. This core module introduces a variety of texts and critical debates, and provides a foundation for English Literature in Years 2 and 3. All other first-year modules are optional.
· Critical Reading I (core); EN4001 Critical Reading 1 Order Form 2015-2016 (1).xlsx
· Writing and the Self;
· Writing, Gender and Politics, 1500-1750; EN4002 Writing, Gender and Politics Order Form 2015.xlsx
· Scandal and Sobriety: Enlightenment to Victorianism, 1750-1890; EN4003 Scandal and Sobriety Order Form 2015.xlsx
· From Decadence to the Naughties, 1890-2009; EN4004 From Decadence to the Naughties Order Form 2015 (1).xlsx
· Print, Book, and Candle: the production, form and reception of literary texts.
Year 2Current Year 2 modules:
· Critical Reading II (core);
· Theatre, Sex and Power in Early Modern England;
· Nineteenth-Century European Literature;
· Gothic Origins and Innovations, 1780-1890;
· Poetry;
· Historical Fiction;
· Three Women Writers;
· Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature;
· Canadian Literature and Culture;
· Post-Colonial Literatures;
· Practical Criticism and Close Reading;
· Reading Animals;
· Writing America: Identity, Ethnicity, Nationhood;
· Manifesto!;
· Crime Fiction;
· Twentieth-Century Irish Writing;
· Renaissance Worlds: sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry;
· Adventures in Periodical Culture: beyond the book, 1700-1960.
Year 3Current Year 3 modules:
· Research Project (compulsory for Single and Major Hons. English);
· Shakespeare;
· Aspects of Modernism;
· Writing and the Environmental Crisis;
· Twentieth-Century European Literature;
· Virginia Woolf;
· Sylvia Plath;
· Bronte and Dickens;
· Gothic Revivals;
· Authors, Books and Readers in Early Modern England;
· Literary London;
· Margaret Atwood;
· In Search of America;
· Publishing: the Literary Journal;
· Empire and Identity in the 18th Century;
· Caribbean Writings, 1950 - the present;
· Women's Writing 1960-2000;
· Irish Women's Writing;
· European Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco;
· Ian McEwan;
· Gender, Race & Nation in Early Modern Britain;
· Literature & Evil;
· Love & Desire in Contemporary Culture;
· Meanings of Friendship in Literature and Philosophy;
· Literary Women, Work and Art: Romantic to Modern;
· Contemporary Crime Fiction;
· Digital Literary Studies;
· Literature and Psychology.
Course assessmentMost modules use essays with other forms of coursework such as journals, portfolios and short critical pieces, projects and dissertations, or special assignments such as seminar presentations, collaborative magazines, and web-based essays. Some modules include seen and unseen exams. Second and final year grades contribute towards your final degree award.
BA (Hons) English Literature