B.A. English and American Literature and Culture (Hons)

Our research-active staff use a variety of teaching methods, teaching in both lectures and in small seminar groups to provide interactive learning opportunities and active student engagement. English modules feature equally with American Literature choices.

In your first year you will be given an introduction to literary studies, including modules on renaissance literature, English poetry and American Literature from the Early Colonial Period to the Present Day. You can choose two further modules which may be chosen from Creative Writing Skills, an Introduction to Language and Communication, an Introduction to Modernist Fiction and a free elective from a different discipline.

In your second and third years you will take a varied range of modules to cover the full spectrum of literary history. You will also have the opportunity to undertake a research-based dissertation on a related topic of your choice in your final year. You are assessed in a variety of ways: exams, assessed essays, presentations, reports and dissertations.