BA English Literature
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC including English Literature, English Language, English Language and Literature, Creative Writing or Drama at grade B or C. IB: 28 points with English Higher at 4.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Modules cover periods from the Medieval and Renaissance eras through the Victorian and Romantic periods to modern and contemporary writing. A work placement module is available, and the degree culminates in an independently researched dissertation.
Modules
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Investigating Interpretation: Ideas in Literature From Marx to Barthes
- Conflicts and Controversies in Victorian Literature: Charlotte Brontë to Charles Dickens
- Writing Back: Poetry, Image Voice
- Subverting the Subject: Ideas in Literature Barthes to Gaming
- Make It New: Modernist Experimentation
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci Fi and Beyond
- Renaissance to Restoration
- Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries
- Agents of Change: British Women’s Writing in the Twentieth Century
- American Visions: Modern and Contemporary American Writing
- Fairy Tales: From Early Modern to Postmodern
- Work Placement
- Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- English and Creative Writing Dissertation
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture from Freud to Žižek
- Gothic Women’s Writing
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Fantasy Writing: Origins and Development
- European Literary Legacies: Writing the City