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BA English with Foundation Year

University of Derby

Institution
University of Derby
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English with Foundation Year
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
Q301
Typical offer
A-level DDD

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 72 A level: DDD T Level: Pass BTEC: MMP GCSE: GCSE Maths and English are preferred, however if you don't have these qualifications you will be able to undertake Maths and English at Level 2 as part of your course of study Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 0, Merit: 30, Pass:15 English language: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme includes a placement year between the second and final stage. The final year features an independently researched project supervised by a specialist and a collaborative conference module.

Modules

  • Placement Learning and Professional Development
  • Literature
  • History
  • Academic Skills and Personal Development
  • Creative Project
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Children's Literature and Education
  • Politics and Policy
  • Society and Culture
  • Theorising Literature and Meaning (PDP)
  • Enlightenment Literature
  • Shakespeare and Early Modernity
  • Mutants and Monsters: Interpreting Fantasy
  • World Literatures in English
  • Key Concepts in Linguistics
  • Literature, Identity and The Real
  • Nineteenth-Century Realism: Conscience and Context
  • The English Conference
  • Research in Practice
  • Modernism
  • Poetry and Revolution in the British Romantic Period
  • Language and Society: Sociolinguistics
  • Ideology, Discourse, and Power
  • English Independent Study (PDP)
  • Advanced Research in Practice
  • After The Modern: Existentialism and Postmodernism
  • Colonialism and Independence
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature: Terror Wit and Letters of Love
  • Gender and Identity in Contemporary Literature
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  • Riots and Rebels: Studies in Intercultural Drama
  • The Art of Crime
  • Tragedy
  • Language and Mind: Psycholinguistics
  • The Globalisation(s) of English