English Literature BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Worcester

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Worcester

  • Start date

    Different dates available

What makes English Literature at Worcester special? At Worcester you can studya range of world literatures from the 16th through to the 21st centuries. Through our work project module and numerous internship opportunities, you can also enhance your employability whilst you study. We have a strong international focus, including lecturing staff from across the globe and a flourishing student exchange programme. For updates and general information concerning events and activities in the English Subject Area see our official blog.

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Location

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Worcester (Worcestershire)
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Henwick Grove, WR2 6AJ

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements Applicants who are offered a place on the BA (Hons) in English Literature most commonly satisfy one of the following requirements: 112UCAS tariff points (single and joint honours), including a minimum grade C at A2 English Accredited Access and Foundation Courses Mature Entry Route The points above are the new UCAS tariff, which will be used for courses starting from September 2017. See our new UCAS tariff page for more...

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Subjects

  • English
  • Writing
  • Project
  • Teaching
  • Poetry

Course programme

Course content What will you study?

Here is an overview of current modulesvalidated forthis course. Regular updates may mean that exact module titles may differ.

Year 1

Mandatory

  • English Literature Across the Centuries
  • What is Literature?

Optional

  • English Renaissance Texts and Contexts
  • Improving English usage and style in academic writing
  • Introduction to American Writing
  • Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
  • Power, Sex and Identity in Restoration Literature
  • Science Fiction: Alternative Worlds
  • Creativity in Womens Writing: Difference in View
Year 2

Mandatory

  • Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice
  • Literature in English around the World

Optional

  • Shakespearean Comedy
  • Culture and Politics in Victorian Fiction
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Word and Image
  • Childrens Literature
  • Intertextualities
  • Writing the Modern Self in Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Gender and Popular Fiction
  • Gothic Literature
  • Literary England and the Great War, 1900 - 1930
  • Writing for Children
  • The American Short Story
Year 3

Mandatory

  • Independent Research Project

Optional

  • American Writing and the Wilderness
  • Cities and Fiction
  • Extended Independent Research Project
  • Fantasy and the 1980s
  • Independent Research Project
  • Irish Writing since 1900
  • Justice and Revenge in English Renaissance Drama
  • Key Concepts and Principles in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Methodology
  • Literature in Film Adaptation
  • Love, Religion and Politics in English Renaissance Poetry
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • What Happens Now: Twenty-First Century Poetry Plus
  • Work Project Module
  • E-editing Early Modern Texts

At Worcester you will have the opportunity to study fiction, poetry and drama spanning the past 500 years and including the present day, generated in England and in other countries around the world. You will engage with a variety of approaches to studying and thinking about literature, focusing especially on the cultural and historical contexts of its publication. You will develop skills in analysis and critical thinking, written and oral presentation, all of which are highly valued in a range of careers - from teaching to marketing for example. For those interested to pursue further academic study, the course has a long track record of preparing students for Masters programmes and subsequent doctoral research. All of this will come from your reading, talking and writing about wonderful literature!

The core, mandatory, modules in years 1 and 2 bring students together to explore a variety of periods and writing genres in British and World literatures and to develop critical, theoretical and research skills and practices. In addition, you will be able to select from optional modules designed to offers students a degree of choice to follow their passions - from Shakespeare, to Science Fiction, to Literature on Film. In the third year, alongside studying further optional modules, you will undertake an extended research project that develops your own, specialist area interest; you will undertake your project with the one-to-one support of a lecturer with expertise in the topic. Assessment throughout the degree is by a variety of coursework and there are no exams.

Meet the team

Here are a few of the current members of the department who teach on this course:

  • Andreas is a Co-Director of the Institutes Early Modern Research Group. His teaching and research interests cover the early modern period, specifically the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As well as teaching a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Andreas is responsible for specialist modules in Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry, Civil War and Restoration literature, and eighteenth-century fiction and verse.

I was impressed by the variety of genres and periods that I studied throughout the three years.

Claire Shipman

English Literature BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 + VAT