English Literature and Philosophy : BA Hons : QV35

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Your degree is taught jointly by Lancaster’s Philosophy Department and our English Literature and Creative Writing Department.

You’ll start your degree with courses including English Literature and Introduction to Philosophy. As you progress, the scheme allows you to specialise according to your own interests and strengths, with a selection of second and third-year English Literature modules and options such as The Theory and Practice of Criticism; Literature and Film; Shakespeare; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of the Mind; and Philosophy of Science.

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Location

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

You’ll learn how philosophical perspectives can be applied fruitfully to literature and your literary studies will elucidate the narrative structures and cultural functions of Philosophy. You’ll take various approaches to English and other literatures by diverse authors and will look at both the history of and contemporary debates in Philosophy.

A Philosophy degree from Lancaster teaches you to analyse problems from a multi-dimensional perspective, encouraging you to approach issues creatively and with an enquiring mind. Your study of Philosophy and Literature will also cultivate a wide range of interpersonal and communication skills that are highly valued by employers. All this will stand you in good stead for careers involving analysis, assessment and the weighing-up of arguments.

Many of our graduates go on to careers traditionally associated with English and creative writing, such as publishing and the media, teaching and librarianship. Others find roles in business, administration and professional services, where their skills of self-expression and critical understanding of complex information are equally valued.

A number of our English Literature and Philosophy graduates regularly go on to take higher degrees, at Lancaster or another institution.

A Level AAB

Required Subjects A level English Literature or A level English Language and Literature grade A

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • English
  • Writing
  • History of Philosophy
  • English Literature
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • World Literature
  • British Romanticism
  • Epistemology
  • Literature

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • English Literature
    • Introduction to Philosophy

Optional

    • World Literature
Year 2

Core

    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

    • 18th Century Literature
    • American Literature to 1900
    • British Romanticism
    • Epistemology
    • Ethics: Theory and Practice
    • History of Philosophy
    • Literature, Film, and Media
    • Metaphysics
    • Philosophical Questions in the Study of Politics and Economics
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Philosophy of the Mind
    • Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
    • Victorian Literature
Year 3

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Aesthetics
    • African Literature
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • British and American Crime Stories 1840-2000
    • Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
    • Continental Philosophy
    • Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
    • Darwinism and Philosophy
    • Dissertation Unit
    • Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
    • Elizabethan Embodiment
    • England and Englishness
    • History of Twentieth Century Philosophy
    • Literature and Religion at the Fin de Siecle
    • Literature and the Visual Arts
    • Logic and Language
    • Modernism towards Postmodernism
    • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
    • Other Victorians
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
    • Representing Palestine: Creative Constructions of a Nation
    • Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Seeing Triple: Expansive American Fiction
    • Shakespeare
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
    • The Literature of Sleep
    • The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Autobiography
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
    • Women Writers of Britain and America
    • Writing in Lancaster Castle

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Additional information

Overseas Fee - £15,680

English Literature and Philosophy : BA Hons : QV35

Price on request