Bachelor's degree

In Bristol

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Why English?
Our BA(Hons) English course builds on your love of literature, combining creative and academic activities with the development of key transferrable skills to the workplace. The quality of the course and our inspiring staff mean that English at UWE Bristol ranks consistently highly in the National Student Survey (NSS). Our graduates emerge as mature, confident individuals with excellent communication, critical and analytical abilities, ideally placed for an exciting range of career opportunities.
Why study this course?
Taking an independent approach to literary texts, you will gain excellent written and oral skills and will be challenged by critical and theoretical perspectives. Your creativity will be nurtured through imaginative writing applied across genres ranging from epic poetry to the American novel and you will become confident in expressing your opinions on periods spanning the English Renaissance and the 21st century. Assessment might involve creative writing, reviews or book cover design.
You will be taught by renowned academics and published researchers in a supportive, collaborative community. English is based at Frenchay campus, where you will work alongside our Arts and Cultural Industries. Bristol's vibrant culture is an exceptional resource and there is ongoing exchange between the University and the city.
Real-world experience
Our students find work and volunteering opportunities throughout their degree. Employability is core to your final year. You will choose a project with a direct connection to a possible career path. You might write a dissertation, undertake a project in creative writing or module design, or compile a critical anthology.
Where it can take you
Many of our graduates work in the media or the arts, in careers including marketing, editing and publishing. Others use their transferable skills in other rewarding careers or go on to further study.
Watch: The learning and teaching experience

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

Start date

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About this course

Placements
If you choose to study on the four year sandwich route, you will undertake a minimum 26-week placement relevant to your degree. Placements are taken after you have successfully completed the second year of study.
This is a valuable and rewarding aspect of your course allowing you to gain real-world experience, develop key skills and increase your employability on graduation. You will receive support in finding a placement and guidance throughout from our award-winning Careers and Employability service.
Study year abroad
There may be opportunities to undertake a study year...

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Course programme

Content

Year one

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Creativity, Critique and Literature
  • Literature and Ideas
  • Once Upon a Time: Children, Stories and Literature
  • Beyond the Horizon: Places and Spaces in Literature.

Year two

You will study the following compulsory module:

  • Reading Forms/Forms of Reading
  • Shakespeare's World of Words OR Exploring the Eighteenth Century OR Romanticism Unbound.

In addition, you will study two of the following optional modules:

  • British Writing 1900-1950
  • Victorian Frictions
  • Imagining America: Cultural and Literary Legacies of the United States, 1830-1970
  • Shakespeare's World of Words*
  • Romanticism Unbound*
  • Exploring the Eighteenth Century*.

If you choose to study on the four year sandwich route, you will spend your third year on placement. The curriculum in the second year provides support for the process of securing this.

Final year

You will study the following compulsory module:

  • English Independent Project

Plus three optional modules from the list below OR two if a Study Year Abroad (SYA) or Placement Year has been completed:

  • Literature and Culture in Britain 1885-1930
  • Contemporary American Narrative
  • Gothic Literature
  • Children's Fiction since 1900
  • Moving Words: Travel Writing and Modernity
  • Fiction in Britain since 1970.

*can be taken as optional module if not chosen as a compulsory module.

Please note this structure is for the full-time course delivery only. For part-time delivery, the same modules will be studied. However, the structure will differ.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.

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Learning and Teaching

Full-time students study four modules per academic year and every module involves three contact hours per week. We use a variety of traditional and non-traditional methods of teaching: from formal lectures, seminars, online sessions and workshops, to one-to-one tutorials.

Each student who comes to us will be allocated their own academic personal tutor (APT) who provides individual advice and support concerning any aspect of their course. They will formally meet with this tutor three times a year but the tutor will also be available through an open-door policy to meet the student whenever is needed.

There is also a panel of student advisers who offer students academic or personal support.

Find out more about our academic staff, their teaching expertise and research interests.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Assessment

There is a wide variety of types of assessment: from essays, creative writing, examinations and dissertations, to bibliographical exercises, research logs, synopses of academic journal articles and oral presentations.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.

English - BA(Hons)

£ 9,250 + VAT