English Studies BA (Hons)

University of Bedfordshire

Bachelor's degree

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

About the course Your love of the English language and its literature extends to your own creative writing and you want a degree that will allow you to follow all three elements. This distinctive course does just that, supporting your development in creativity and imagination, articulacy and cultural scale of reference. A foundation in the main literary genres and periods, language, identity and society; and different kinds of writing is followed by study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the chance to choose from creative writing, language, film studies, canonical English literature or American literature. The final year brings your literature studies up to the present day, and you choose either a dissertation or a portfolio of creative writing.

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Location

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Luton (Bedfordshire)
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University Of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton Campus (Vicarage Street), LU1 3JU

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About this course

We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study. / entry UCAS Tariff Score of at least , which should include two A levels at C or above UCAS Tariff Score of at least from BTEC level 3 QCF Qualifications which should include a minimum of Merit Merit from either two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or from a BTEC Diploma or Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma UCAS Tariff Score.

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Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Writing

Course programme

  • Learn from supportive and enthusiastic tutors with strong research records in their specialist subjects
  • Study all the major periods of English Literature, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, the Romantics and the Victorians, to the Modern Age; with options in poetry and poetics, creative writing, gothic literature, gender and culture, children’s fiction and American, Irish and world literatures
  • Develop your own interests by choosing a dissertation topic or creative writing portfolio in your final year
  • Explore your own interests with a degree that allows you to choose subjects that best suit your strengths, personal learning styles and goals
  • Benefit from a degree which develops employability skills which could lead you to careers in media, publishing, marketing, public relations and arts administration or to teaching via a PGCE in either Primary or Secondary Education
Year 1
  • Practising Ideas: Approaches to Theory
  • Language, Identity and Society
  • Literature in History
  • Studying Modern Literature
Year 2
  • Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • Language, Ideology and Power
  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Nineteenth-Century Writings
  • American Journeys
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Creative Writing
Year 3
  • Dissertation (English Studies)
  • Gender and Culture
  • The Modern Age
  • Modern Irish Literature
  • World Literature
  • Children’s Fiction
  • Gothic Literature

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