English Literature : BA Hons : Q300

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our English Literature degree provides a thorough grounding in a wide range of authors, genres, historical periods, literary movements, techniques and critical approaches. We use cutting-edge approaches to literary study, and allow you to specialise in genres and periods that particularly appeal to you.

In your first and second years, mandatory courses include Introduction to English Literature and The Theory and Practice of Criticism; optional courses include World Literature, Renaissance to Restoration Literature, Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Literature and Film, and American Literature to 1900. Third-year English courses range from medieval to contemporary literature. We offer a wide variety of full- and half-year modules addressing an array of topics, authors, theories, contexts, and media. In your final year you’ll also choose the materials, issues and themes you’d like to explore in greater depth by writing a Dissertation on a topic that particularly appeals to you.

Facilities

Location

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Many of our graduates have gone on to successful postgraduate study and careers in professional fields such as publishing, journalism, writing, television and the media, teaching, and librarianship.

Our Creative Writing graduates have published their own stories, novels, and poems with major publishers and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio. The transferable skills you gain on this degree – communication, self-expression, research and critical understanding – also open up a wide range of business and public-sector roles in areas such as marketing, advertising, law, social work and professional services. A sizeable proportion of our graduates take up employment overseas. Other graduates go onto further study, not only in English and Creative Writing, but also in Journalism, Publishing, Law, Public Relations and Business. Recent graduates have gone on to train as speech therapists, teachers of English in the UK and overseas, computer programmers and consultants, videogame storywriters, bankers, chartered accountants, personnel managers and social workers.

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

  • English
  • Restoration
  • Media
  • American Literature
  • World Literature
  • Contemporary Literature
  • English Literature
  • British Romanticism
  • Literature
  • Film and Media

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

Optional

    • World Literature
Year 2

Core

    • The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

    • American Literature to 1900
    • British Romanticism
    • Literature, Film, and Media
    • Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
    • Victorian Literature
Year 3

Core

    • Dissertation Unit

Optional

    • 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
    • Between the Acts
    • Bible and Literature
    • Contemporary Literature in English
    • Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
    • Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
    • Jane Austen
    • Literary Film Adaptations, Hollywood 1939
    • Literature and Religion at the Fin de Siecle
    • Literature and the Visual Arts
    • Modernism towards Postmodernism
    • Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
    • Performing Death, Desire and Gender
    • Premodern Gothic
    • Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
    • Schools Volunteering Project
    • Science Fiction in Literature and Film
    • Shakespeare
    • The Break-Through Book: Five Twentieth-century Poets
    • The Byron-Shelley Circle
    • Thinking Through Twenty-First Century World Literature and Theory
    • Utopias and Utopianism
    • Victorian Gothic
    • Women Writers of Britain and America

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 : BA Hons : Q300

£ 9,250 VAT inc.