English ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your English degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

• English in Practice
• Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century
• Narrative
• Poetry
• Reading, Theory and Interpretation: approaches to the study of English Literature
• Shakespeare

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Choose from

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
• Renaissance Literary Culture

• Representing London: Writing the eighteenth-century city
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions

• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures
• The Long Contemporary

You also choose one or two modules from a range of options that changes each year.

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Black and Asian Writing in Britain
• Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Satire, Scandal and Society
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
• Women and their writing in the Romantic Period
• Writing Now

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

• English Research Dissertation

You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a range of options that changes each year.

• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Creative Writing Prose Fiction
• Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• Reading William Blake
• Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
• Writing Modern London
• Writing Muslims

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy tickets to shows or exhibitions (often at a discounted rate) as well as pay for travel within London.