Bachelor's degree

In Uxbridge

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Duration

    3 Years

We aim to introduce you right from the start to a variety of critical perspectives in preference to a routine chronological survey, and our first priority is always to inform, stimulate and support you.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Uxbridge (Middlesex)
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Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH

Start date

On request

About this course

* GCE A and AS-level Tariff points typically from 3 A-levels together with either 1 AS-level or Extended Project Qualification (typical offer BBC, including Grade B in English, plus a C in either an AS or EPQ). General Studies/Critical Thinking may be accepted.

* Irish Tariff points from 5 subjects.

* Scottish Tariff points from 3 Advanced Highers plus 1 Higher.

* Advanced Diploma Tariff points in Creative and Media, including A-level English for Additional and Specialist Learning. Extended project in a related subject preferred. ...

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Course programme

English BA

Full-Time Programme

This course covers all the major periods of literature from the Renaissance to the most recent publications in poetry, fiction and drama.

Course Aims

Storytelling is a fundamental human activity. Every day we exchange jokes and anecdotes, and the important events in our lives need to be told and retold many times over before they achieve the pattern and polish to become the 'story of our lives'. We tell and read stories for pleasure and information, but we also read to gain a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

The BA in English spans everything from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, Emily Bronte to Eminem. Traditional modules run alongside more innovative options covering areas such as fairytales, postmodernism, popular literature, south Asian writing, women's writing, experimental literatures and digital technologies.

Brunel also has a growing reputation for its teaching and research in the fields of Contemporary Literature and Creative Writing, and for its work in the areas of Renaissance Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and Postcolonial Studies, all taught by enthusiastic staff who are specialists in their fields.

Course Content

Our courses are designed to develop your ability to read texts in increasingly complex and diverse ways. We explore literature by looking at its structures and forms as well as the varying contexts in which it is produced and read. We examine the relations between writer, text and reader and interrogate the ways in which contexts shape and affect interpretation of varieties of texts.

You will have the opportunity to specialise by selecting from a wide range of options according to your own particular tastes and interests, be they in contemporary poetry, drama, fiction, in literatures of the past or in literatures from cultures remote from our own.

You will also take a few modules from other Arts disciplines at Level 1, and may choose some elements from other disciplines at Levels 2 and 3 as well, since we believe that cross-fertilisation in the arts and humanities is healthy both academically and socially.

Teaching and Learning

The course is taught by highly qualified staff who are actively engaged in research, scholarship or relevant professional practice. You will be taught through various methods such as lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars.

Student Support

You will be assigned a Personal Tutor who remains with you throughout your degree course. They are available to discuss personal and academic problems. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the individual, and you will find both academic and administrative staff only too pleased to help.

Careers

English is particularly good at developing the transferable personal skills that employers prize in graduates. The degree emphasises imagination, independence of thought and intellectual flexibility. Emphasis is placed on both acquisition of knowledge and analytical skills and your ability to manage your own learning, and develop personal and collaborative communication skills.

After graduation, students may enter one of the professions associated with English, such as journalism, publishing, teaching, the civil service or the media, but our students fit just as easily into many other career environments. From the outset we help you to develop career options based on interests and skills.

Entry Requirements

  • GCE A and AS-level Tariff points typically from 3 A-levels together with either 1 AS-level or Extended Project Qualification (typical offer BBC, including Grade B in English, plus a C in either an AS or EPQ). General Studies/Critical Thinking may be accepted.
  • Irish Tariff points from 5 subjects.
  • Scottish Tariff points from 3 Advanced Highers plus 1 Higher.
  • Advanced Diploma Tariff points in Creative and Media, including A-level English for Additional and Specialist Learning. Extended project in a related subject preferred.
  • BTEC ND DDM in a related subject.
  • IB Diploma 32 points.

For all of the above, 5 GCSEs or equivalent at Grade C or above are also required, to include English.

English

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