BA English Literature and International Relations LQF3

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
Whether you explore post-colonial literature or debate the ‘Arab Spring’, this degree lets you explore the world from different perspectives.
Our students examine some of the world’s most pressing problems as they are represented in literary works and as they are analysed through the study of International Relations, a specialist area of politics.
In your English Literature modules, you will read more of authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But you will also encounter aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction. As you progress through your degree, your module choices become more diverse and specialised: you can do archive work on ‘Studying manuscripts’, or look at the politics of literature in ‘Writing global justice’. Everyone in our department, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every level of the degree: this gives you the benefit of our expertise and makes you part of the conversation about our research and its impact outside the classroom.
In International Relations, you will learn how to apply political theories and techniques to the issues that make news headlines across the globe. You will have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of specialist core and optional modules, which cover topical issues such as European political integration, international terrorism and the Middle East crisis. In certain modules, you will have the opportunity to take part in United Nations and Middle East simulations and gain an insight into the political process. You can also take part in other activities that are related to the subject, such as the Department of Politics and International Relations' weekly politics radio show...

Facilities

Location

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • International
  • Politics
  • International Relations
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Writing
  • Shakespeare
  • Democracy
  • Global

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Genre and Context
  • Introduction to Contemporary Democracy
  • Introduction to Political Ideas
  • Poetry in English
  • Politics: International Relations and Strategic Studies
  • Research and Criticism

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Modern International Relations
  • The Study of Politics
Optional modules include:
  • The Business of Books
  • Contemporary Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 1950-present
  • Writing, Gender, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • American Government and Politics
  • British Government and Politics
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Communications at Work
  • Critical Issues
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • European Political Integration
  • Introduction to Old English Literature
  • Literature, Language and Education
  • Literature, Language and Media
  • Lyric Voices 1340-1650
  • Model United Nations
  • Modernism
  • Political Thinking
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1789
  • Shakespeare
  • The Media and Politics
  • The Romantic Period
  • Victorian Literature
  • Work Placement and Project
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core module:
  • Dissertation
Optional modules include:
  • Family Romances: Genealogy, Identity, and Imposture in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
  • Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
  • Intelligence, War and International Relations
  • Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
  • War, Peace and International Ethics
  • 'Eyes on the Prize': Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • American Graphic Novel
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Black British Fiction
  • British Foreign and Defence Policy since 1945
  • Children's Literature
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Class Matters
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Contemporary Power Politics
  • Crime and Punishment:Theoretical Approaches
  • Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
  • Democracy and Democracy Promotion
  • Dickens
  • Digital Text: Literature and New Technologies
  • Dissertation
  • Dissertation English and International Relations
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Feminism and Political Theory
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain and America
  • Grand Strategy from classical Rome to modern China
  • Hitchcock
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • International Terrorism
  • Introduction to Critical Security Studies
  • Irish Poetry after Yeats
  • James Joyce
  • John Milton: Poet of the English Republic
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern Epic
  • Modern Scottish Fiction: From Jean Brodie to Trainspotting
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Modernism and Politics
  • Nationalism
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Packaging Literature
  • Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
  • Politics of the International Economy
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Science in Culture
  • Shakespeare and Gender
  • Shakespeare on Film
  • Strategic Theory
  • Strategy in the Two World Wars
  • The African-American Short Story
  • The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sex and Sensibility
  • The UN and International Order
  • The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Toleration: Theory and Practice
  • US Foreign and Defence Policy since 1950
  • United Kingdom Politics since 1960
  • Utopia
  • Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
  • Victorian Literature and Medicine
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Work Placement and Project
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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