BA English
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB IB: 34/665 BTEC: DDD
About this course
BA in English, an English degree spanning literature, critical theory and cultural history across diverse periods. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Campus facilities house special literary collections, a cinema museum, and a digital humanities lab. The first year establishes foundational skills through compulsory modules covering critical approaches in Approaches to Criticism, early literature in Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, poetic forms in The Poem, and academic writing techniques in Academic English. Students can additionally select optional first-year modules such as Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry, The Novel, Rethinking Shakespeare, and Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing. In subsequent years, the programme offers a broad choice of optional modules spanning Renaissance and modern literature, creative writing, drama, and cultural studies, including Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640, Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England, Chaucer and His Contemporaries, Renaissance and Revolution, Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750, Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings, Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960, Romanticism, Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture, Creative Writing: Building a Story, Creative Writing: Making a Poem, British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar, Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres, Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future, Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory, and Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World.
Modules
- Approaches to Criticism
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- The Poem
- Academic English
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- The Novel
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World