BA English Literature
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB - see below for full requirements.. IB: 6,6,5 - 32 points overall.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature BA, an English degree spanning critical reading, literary history and specialized texts. Core topics include Research Methods. The course culminates in an independent research project. The first year introduces foundational study through compulsory and optional modules such as Approaches to Critical Reading, Approaches to Literary Cultures, Theory and Practice of Criticism, and Approaches to Medieval Literature A. The second year expands into historical periods and thematic topics with modules including Gothic, Shakespeare: Elizabethan, Colonial/Postcolonial, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. The final year involves advanced specialisation and an independent Dissertation in English Literature, alongside options such as Last Year's Novels, Jane Austen’s Fiction, and Shakespeare's Tragedies.
Modules
- Approaches to Critical Reading
- Approaches to Literary Cultures
- Discover a Classic: Literary Research
- Literary Worlds: From Revolution to Postmodernity
- Literary Worlds: From Riddles to Novels
- Theory and Practice of Criticism
- Approaches to Children's Literature A
- Approaches to Children's Literature B
- Approaches to Fantasy, Sci Fi and Dystopia A
- Approaches to Fantasy, Sci Fi and Dystopia B
- Approaches to Medieval Literature A
- Approaches to Medieval Literature B
- Approaches to North American Literature A
- Approaches to North American Literature B
- Approaches to Plays and Performance: Shakespeare and Beyond A
- Approaches to Plays and Performance: Shakespeare and Beyond B
- Gothic
- Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture
- Shakespeare: Elizabethan
- Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature
- Literature 1950-Present
- Restoration and Revolution
- Earliest English
- Popular Fiction Before the Novel
- Reading the Renaissance
- Colonial/Postcolonial
- Literature and Environment: Crisis and Resistance
- Shakespeare: Jacobean
- Our Digital World
- Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture
- The Social Life of Literature
- Aspects of Modernism
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Victorian Literature
- British Theatre
- Drama and Media Writing
- Editing: Theory & Practice
- Film Genre
- Film Theory and Criticism
- Stylistics
- The Structure of English
- Dissertation in English Literature
- Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy
- Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In
- Last Year's Novels
- Paradise Lost: Text and context
- Remembering World War One
- The Art of Translation
- Victorian Drama: Realism and Sensation, from Factory Lads to Fallen Women
- Boring Beyond Belief?: Uncreative Writing
- Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin
- British Popular Romance
- Elizabeth I and her Poets
- Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing
- Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985
- Writing/Painting
- Decoding Pop Culture
- Flourish for the Players (Shakespeare's Contemporaries)
- From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art
- Hidden Romanticism
- Islamophobia and the Novel
- Jane Austen’s Fiction
- Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny
- Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books
- Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession
- Literary Decolonizations
- Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions
- Shakespeare's Tragedies
- Single Author: Virginia Woolf
- The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700
- Professional Skills
- Professional Skills - Freelance
- Adaptation: Theory and Practice
- Children's Film and Television
- Film and Television Authorship
- Screen Performance
- Screenwriting: Film
- Extreme Fictions
- Sympathetic Texts
- A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond)
- Animal Communication and Language Evolution
- Business Discourse and Communication
- Narratives across Media