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King's College London

Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Our dynamic English BA degree offers you the chance to study in the heart of London and engage with its literary history. You’ll be able to select from a wide array of exciting areas of study – with world-class lecturers in everything from medieval literature to contemporary poetry and creative writing. During the degree, you will discover a range of theoretical and historical approaches to literary study and develop essential skills in critical thinking, expression and research.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

About this course

One of the oldest English departments in the country, with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research.
Central London location offers access to Shakespeare’s Globe and countless other sites and buildings with literary associations.
Teaching and research partnerships with institutions around us such as the Globe Theatre, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Royal Society of Literature, the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum.
Personal attention is given to each student, creating a vibrant intellectual atmosphere and a network of support.
Graduates develop transferable analytical and communications skills making them highly desirable to employers across a range of sectors.
With several research centres at King’s, including the London Shakespeare Centre and the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture, you will be exposed to cutting edge-research in their field.

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English is a flexible and adaptable subject that equips you with a wide range of transferable skills appropriate to many different occupations. Graduates from our English BA possess skills in written and spoken communication, independent thought and judgement, critical thinking and research, all of which are highly valued by employers. Applicants may be interested in a career in journalism, publishing and the creative industries, or in education and research. Many graduates also go into general management, consultancy and the public services.

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Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A-levels. However, if offered the grade achieved may be taken into account when considering whether or not to accept a candidate who has just fallen short of the conditions of their offer.

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Theatre
  • Poetry
  • American Literature
  • Writing
  • English Literature
  • Biblical Contexts
  • Literary culture

Course programme

1st Year

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 120 credits.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 credits)
  • Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)
  • Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)
  • Introduction to American Literature (15 credits)
  • Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)
  • Reading Poetry (15 credits)
  • Writing London (15 credits)
Optional Modules

In addition, you will take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from either a list of English Department electives, or from one of the following departments, depending on availability:

  • Classics (15 credits)
  • Digital Humanities (15 credits)
  • French (15 credits)
  • Comparative Literature (15 credits)
  • Film Studies (15 credits)
  • Modern Language Centre (15 credits)
  • Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies (15 credits)
  • Theology & Religious Studies (15 credits)
2nd Year

Required Modules

The department operates a banding system in the second year, to ensure a balanced programme of study.

  • Band 1: Literature up to 1800 and English Language
  • Band 2: Literature 1800 - present

You are required to take a minimum of four Band 1 modules during your second year. At least one of these must be a Band 1 Medieval option.

Optional Modules

You will take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional modules within these bands which may typically include:

Band 1 examples
  • A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean England (15 credits)
  • Renaissance Wordplay (15 credits)
  • Comedy & Identity (15 credits)
  • Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in the Anglo-Saxon Period (Medieval) (15 credits)
  • Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing (15 credits)
  • The Film of the Play (15 credits)
  • History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination (15 credits)
  • Language on the Edge (15 credits)
  • London Literature 1380-1450 (Medieval) (15 credits)
  • Old English Poems & Modern British Poetry (Medieval) (15 credits)
  • Performance in Medieval Culture (Medieval) (15 credits)
  • The Poetry of Revolution (15 credits)
  • Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature (Medieval) (15 credits)
  • The Rise of the Novel (15 credits)
  • Family, Authorship and Romanticism (15 Credits)
  • Medieval Science Fiction (Medieval) 15 credits)
  • Unlocking Early Modern Letters (15 credits)
  • Early American Literature (15 credits)
Band 2 examples
  • Prose Fiction (Creative Writing) (15 credits)
  • Literature & Psychoanalysis (15 credits)
  • Gender & Performance (15 credits)
  • Victorians & Social Change (15 credits)
  • Shocks of the New (15 credits)
  • Nineteenth Centure American Literature (15 credits)
  • Theory, Culture & Politics After the 1960s (15 credits)
  • US Slavery & the Literary Imagination (15 credits)
  • Modern Poetry & the Place of Writing (15 credits)
  • American Popular Culture (15 credits)
  • Modern Theatre (15 credits)
  • Theatre Capital (15 credits)
  • Fin de Siècle (15 credits)
  • First World War Literature (15 credits)
  • The Colonial Novel & British India (15 credits)
  • Moments of Culture (15 credits)
  • Mapping Modernism (15 credits)
  • 20th Century American Fiction (15 credits)
  • Experimental Theatre (15 credits)
  • Creative Writing: Drama (15 credits)

You also have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of the second year. Our partner universities currently include:

  • Humboldt zu Berlin (basic German language required despite teaching in English)
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of California
  • University of North Carolina
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Hong Kong University
  • University of Sydney
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Michigan
3rd Year

Required Modules

There are no required modules in Year 3.

Optional Modules

You are required to choose either eight 15 credit modules or six 15 credit modules plus a dissertation from a wide range of optional English modules which may typically include:

  • Autobiography (15 credits)
  • Beowulf (15 credits)
  • Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)
  • The Life of the Sonnet (15 credits)
  • Shakespeare’s London (15 credits)
  • Virginia Woolf & the Politics of Reading (15 credits)
  • Conspiracy Fictions in Contemporary America (15 credits)
  • Performance Philosophy (15 credits)
  • Critically Queer (15 credits)
  • Gender, Culture & Power at the Court of Elizabeth I (15 credits)
  • Austen in Context (15 credits)
  • James Joyce & Ulysses (15 credits)
  • Science, Nature & Performance (15 credits)
  • Late Shakespeare (15 credits)
  • Literature & Media (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.

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International tuition fee - £18,900 per year

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