BA English Literature
Entry requirements
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed below: A Level – grades BBB-BCC. No specific subject required. BTEC – Extended Diploma grades from Distinction Distinction Merit (DDM) to Distinction Merit Merit (DMM). No specific subject required. T Levels – grade Merit. No specific subject required. International Baccalaureate – minimum of 32 points. No specific subject required. Access to HE courses – Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, at Merit or higher). No specific subject required. If you don’t meet the entry requirements above, we may be able to accept your prior learning or experience from outside of formal education. See our Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) page to learn more. English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. The course includes a Professional Placement Year option and a final-year English Project. Modules cover a range of topics including Digital Humanities, and the curriculum engages with historical, philosophical and political contexts. Graduates have gone on to work with employers including Oxford University Press and New Scientist.
Modules
- Parallel Texts
- Romance and Revolution
- Worlds of Ideas
- Narratives of Belonging
- Protest and Persuasion
- Thinking Together: Humanities in the 21st Century
- Voices in Conversation
- Reading Communities
- Bodies
- The Book
- The Literature of Laughter
- Transgressions
- Digital Humanities
- Working Together
- Professional Placement Year
- English Project
- Literature and Psychology
- Nation and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Outsiders - women and writing
- Writing and Environmental Crisis
- Writing Now - prizes, popularity and politics