English (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time
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
4 Years
Our BA English offers you the chance to study the full range of English literature, and to develop valuable new skills in writing, reading and critical thinking.
Based in our historic campus in the heart of Bloomsbury, in a Georgian terrace once occupied by Virginia Woolf, this course offers both depth and breadth through its wide and diverse range of modules. You’ll gain a detailed knowledge of the most significant literary works from the medieval period to the present.
Foundational modules in Year 1 introduce you to key techniques in literary analysis, and show how theoretical approaches such as feminism, post-colonialism and psychoanalysis can transform the ways in which you read and think. You can then choose from a huge range of option modules that allow you to focus on single authors, genres and literary periods.
You’ll read texts by Dickens, Zadie Smith, Shakespeare and Plath, encounter genres such as science fiction and romance, and explore literary forms from the novel to comics and beyond. The course’s flexible structure allows you to shape your degree according to your own literary and critical interests.
This course is also available for full-time study over three years.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in writing and journalism, publishing, editing or research. This degree may also be useful in becoming an editorial assistant, newspaper/magazine journalist, writer, academic librarian or public relations officer.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
As part of the application process, you may be asked to complete a written task or attend an interview.
Awarding Body
University of London
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Subjects
- Production
- Poetry
- Drama
- English
- Project
- Writing
- Part Time
- Full Time
- Media
- British Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- Shakespeare
- Publishers
Course programme
You take the equivalent of 12 modules worth a total of 360 credits over four years.
In addition to core and compulsory modules, you choose option modules that allow you to concentrate on particular authors and texts or genres, themes and ideas.
In Year 1, you take four core modules.
In Year 2, you take one core and one compulsory module, and choose one option module.
In Year 3, you take one compulsory module and choose two option modules.
In Year 4, you write a dissertation and choose two option modules.
YEAR 1
- Doing English
- Reading Literature
- Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
- Writing London
- Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
- Production of the Human: Decolonising the Canon
- The Novel: Writing the Modern World
- Dissertation BA English
- America Rewired: US Literature and Culture since the 1960s
- American Centuries: Literatures of Slavery and Freedom
- Blake
- British Literature, post-1945
- Connecting the Arts
- Critically Queer
- Ecopoetics
- Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Drama
- Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Poetry
- European Drama and Theatre: Gods, Ideas and Adaptations
- Fin-De-Siecle
- Finding a Leg to Stand On: Clinical, Critical and Creative Approaches to the Human Body
- Flight Paths: Migration, Diaspora and Identity
- Literature and Cultural Identity: Intersectionalities of Race, Class and Gender
- Literature and the Politics of Feelings
- Literature, Empire and Race
- Making the Medieval Human
- Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
- Medieval Realms
- Modernism and its Others
- Narratives of the Body
- Poetry and Power: Text, Voice, Song
- Reading 21st Century Fictions
- Responding to Animals: Adam to the Zoo
- Romance
- Romanticism: Reason, Revolution, Imagination
- Science Fiction
- Shakespeare
- Telling the self
- The Cultural Production of Space
- The Global Eighteenth Century
- The Victorians and their World
- Tragedy
- Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
Additional information
Part-time international students: £10710 pa
English (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time