BA (Hons) English Literature
Bachelor's degree
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
Study English Literature with us and we’ll help you grow from passionate reader into critical thinker and literary scholar.
You’ll be taught by research-active academics who bring fresh thinking to our accessible, engaging courses. This means you’ll study literature written in English by writers from all parts of the globe, whose voices are relevant and important in our modern world.
We’ll introduce you to writers who will open doors to contemporary worlds and cultures remote from your own, and also help you explore more familiar literature in ways that challenge your preconceptions.
Whatever your taste in literature, our courses will interest and provoke you. From The Tiger Who Came to Tea to Jane Eyre, from Paradise Lost to Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, we’ll broaden your literary horizons and hone your critical thinking.
A core module in your first year will equip you to read and interpret both traditional and contemporary literary texts critically as a scholar of English literature. Alongside this you can choose to study international and American literature or revisit Shakespeare and consider his cultural relevance today through fictional, cinematic and TV adaptations.
In your second year you’ll focus on period-based literature from the Renaissance onwards and gain an understanding of literary history, from Elizabethan verse and drama, via Augustan poetry and the emergence of the novel in the 18th century, to the radical transformations of the Victorian age, and the emergence of modernity in the 20th century. You’ll also have the opportunity to consider ways of reading that go beyond textual analysis or historical context, such as understanding literature through the political or ideological lens of Marxism, feminism and post-colonial theory. Our English Literature students can choose a work experience module, Literature at Work, which explores English in the classroom and aspects of the literary heritage industry.
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About this course
Why choose this course?
We give you:
A fresh take on traditional writing and the opportunity to study contemporary works that speak directly to our everyday lives
An expert academic team to support you and build your confidence as you develop into a literary scholar
A flexible programme of study, allowing you to concentrate on areas you find especially interesting
Teaching rated excellent by 92.14% of our students in the 2018 National Student Survey
CV-building potential through work placements and extra-curricular activities
UCAS points 104
A Level BCC
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Subjects
- English
- Writing
- American Literature
- Shakespeare
- Reading and Interpretation
- Experimentation
Course programme
Module
- Texts Up Close: Reading and Interpretation
- Make it New: Literary Tradition and Experimentation
- Journeys and Quests: Adventures in Literature
- Border Crossings: Modern Literature from around the World
- Shakespeare Reframed
- Identity and Contemporary Writing
- American Voices: Introduction to US Literature and Culture
- Romantic Origins & Gothic Afterlives
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- Ways of Reading: Literature and Theory
- Graduate Skills
- A Nation of Readers: British Identity and Enlightenment Culture
- Revisiting the Renaissance
- Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1900-1945
- American Literature to 1900
- Twentieth Century North American Writing
- Images of Contemporary Society: British Literature and the Politics of Identity
- Age of Transition: the Victorians and Modernity
- Literature at Work
Module
- Renaissance Tragedy
- Eighteenth Century Bodies
- Literature Project
- Between the Acts: Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1890-1920
- Postmodern Genders
- Children's Literature:Growing up in Books
- Native American Literature
- East End Fictions: Interdisciplinary Studies of London's East End
- Worlds Apart 1: Utopian & Dystopian Writing
- Texts and Screens: Studies in Literary Adaptation
- The Golden Age: Victorian Children's Literature
- African-American Literature
- Generation Dead: Young Adult Fiction and the Gothic
- Twenty-first Century American Writing
- Euro-Crime on Page and Screen
Additional information
BA (Hons) English Literature