BA English with Study in North America
Entry requirements
A-Level: A*AA IB: 38/766 BTEC: D*DD
About this course
BA in English with Study in North America, an English degree focusing on literary traditions and cultural history. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The programme spans three years, with the entire second year spent studying abroad at a partner university in Canada or the USA. The first year establishes fundamental knowledge through modules such as Approaches to Criticism, Beginnings: English Literature before 1800, The Poem, and Academic English, alongside optional choices like Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry and Rethinking Shakespeare. The third year advances into specialised study with modules including Life and Death in Early Modern Literature, Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation, Citizens of the World, and American Independent Film, alongside options such as Queering British Screens, Writing the Short Film, and James Joyce's Ulysses. Students also undertake independent research through a dissertation component.
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
- Life and Death in Early Modern Literature
- Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation
- Citizens of the World
- Dissertation
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Dissertation by Collaborative Project
- American Independent Film
- Something to See: War and Visual Media
- Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present
- Poison, Filth, Trash: Modernism, Censorship and Resistance
- Picturing the Global City: Literature and Visual Culture in the 21st Century
- American Counterculture in Literature
- Queering British Screens
- Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity
- Writing the Short Film
- Heroes and Exiles: English Poetry of the Age of Beowulf
- James Joyce's Ulysses
- Visual and Literary Cultures of Realism
- Encountering the Other in Medieval Literature
- Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Resource Fictions: Oil, Water and Conflict in the World-System
- The Death of the Novel
- Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form
- "Reader, I Married Him": The Evolution of Romance Fiction from 1740 to the Present
- Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- The Rise of Science
- Food, Environment and Literature in Early Modern England
- The Poetry of Place
- Piracy in Early Modern Literature, 1570-1730
- Poetry and Politics
- Ghosts, Witches and Demons: the Renaissance Supernatural
- Jane Austen: In and Out of Context
- The Development of British Children's Literature
- Art, Industry and the Modern, 1840-1900
- Fiction Matters
- Migration, Literature and Culture
- Surrealism and its Legacies
- "Mad": Cultures, Histories, Phantasies, Imaginaries of Mental Distress