English and Media - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

Taught by award-winning and internationally recognised academics, this course will develop your talents and strengths. It combines literary studies with an exciting mixture of theoretical and practical approaches to the study of media, allowing you to pursue your passion for the written word and the rapidly changing and dynamic media field.

You’ll develop advanced skills in the critical analysis of literature from the Renaissance period to the 21st Century as well as media texts, audiences and institutions. You’ll also be encouraged to learn practical media and production skills.

The course is extremely flexible, offering a variety of optional modules that allow you to pursue your passions and interests. There’s something for everyone, whatever your tastes and interests, and we’re sure that you’ll find your time here both stimulating and enjoyable.

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Location

Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

On request

About this course

Our recent English Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

BBC – World News Team;
British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) – commercial operations assistant;
Brit Asia TV – music show production staff;
Coca Cola – customer development rep;
Local Government – teacher (secondary English); and
Lightdragon Ltd, Food Network UK – content producer.

Other careers could include:

publishing;
PR;
marketing;
advertising;
journalism; and
recruitment.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Writing
  • Media
  • International
  • Humanities
  • Dissertation
  • Modernism
  • Modernity
  • Analysing
  • Technology

Course programme

Year One
  • Foundations in Literary Studies
  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation
  • Understanding Media and Culture
  • Screen and Sound Media: Culture and Practice
Year Two
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Theorizing Media and Culture
  • Humanities at work
English optional modules
  • Renaissance Literature, 1485-1660: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • British Women Writers between the Wars (1918-1939)
  • Romantic Revolutions 1780-1851
  • Writing Works
  • American Topics
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Voices and Visions
Media optional modules
  • Client-Led Media Practices
  • The City and Popular Culture
  • Analysing Popular Music
  • Home and Cultural Identity
  • Creative Documentary
Year Three
  • Dissertation
  • The Creative Writing Dissertation
  • English and Creative Industries Project
English optional modules
  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose
  • American Specialisms
  • Reading Gender and Sexuality
  • Postcolonial Texts: Narratives of Liberation
  • Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts and Theory
  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries
  • Literature in Theory: Writing, Technology, and the World
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Nuclear Literature
Media optional modules
  • Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
  • Cultural Policy
  • The Body and Popular Culture
  • Advanced Media Practice
  • Alternative Media Practice

English and Media - BA (Hons)

Price on request