English Literature and Italian BA (Hons)

Bangor University

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

This degree course offers the opportunity to study English Literature (50%) and Italian (50%).

The English Literature part of the degree aims to develop your skills in reading literature and to introduce you to new critical techniques and ways of studying literary texts. Through the study of English literature you will develop critical capacities and a range of invaluable intellectual and interpersonal skills: the ability to evaluate and interpret material and the capacity to explain it logically, orally or on paper, the ability to work independently and as a member of a group, to manage your own time and to work to deadlines set by yourself and others. These are skills which are sought by employers in many fields.

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Location

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Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: identify in texts a range of linguistic and literary features

relate the meaning of a text to its formal and rhetorical aspects

understand some of the central ideas in contemporary critical theory

apply these concepts, both analytically and imaginatively, to the reading of literary texts.

demonstrate appropriate academic writing skills, including referencing and bibliography.


A degree from the School of English Literature gives you particular skills and also skills which are common to other degrees in the Arts.

Your degree will indicate your capacity to show initiative and work without close supervision, alone or as a member of a group; you will show to an employer that you are able to work under preassure and meet deadlines.

Those students coming to study degrees such as English with Journalism or English with Songwriting will learn particular skills which will enable them, if they wish, to seek jobs in related fields.

260 240 points
We consider mature students on individual merit.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • English
  • Skills and Training
  • Italian
  • English Literature
  • Dissertation
  • Coursework
  • Aspects of italian history
  • Broad range of stimulating options
  • English Literature and Italian
  • Italian cinema and the media
  • Paid work placement
  • Written and oral examinations
  • Introduction to the history

Course programme

What will you study on this course? In addition to the language the syllabus includes a broad range of stimulating options. First year courses include an introduction to the history, culture, cinema and literatures of Europe. Second and final year options offer increasing levels of specialisation as you proceed towards your degree. They cover a wide variety of cultural and literary material from various centuries but with emphasis on the modern period, aspects of Italian history, Italian cinema and the media.

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  • IT Undergraduate Degrees
  • Undergraduate Degrees in Wales
  • Literature Undergraduate Degrees
  • Literature Undergraduate Degrees in Wales
  • Bangor University Undergraduate Degrees

English Literature and Italian BA (Hons)

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

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