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BA English Literature

University of Kent

Institution
University of Kent
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature
Duration
3-6 years
UCAS code
Q320
Typical offer
A-level BBB, UCAS 120

Entry requirements

A level: BBB IB: 120 tariff points - typically H5 H6 H6 or equivalent

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Study takes place in small group seminars with individual feedback. In the third year, a capstone Project module allows supervised independent research or creative work in the form of your choice, including dissertation, creative-critical essay, or multimedia production.

Modules

  • Changing Literatures
  • Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures
  • Adventures in Criticism
  • Romantic Ecologies: Literature, Environment and Climate Crisis
  • Creative and Critical Conversations
  • Class: Narratives of Exclusion and Belonging
  • American Power, American Protest
  • Shakespeare: Before and After
  • World Literatures in English
  • Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action
  • American Modernities: US Literature 1930 to the Present
  • Becoming America: From Poe to The Great Gatsby
  • Encounters with the Premodern, 1350-1700
  • Modernism
  • Reading Victorian Literature
  • The Contemporary
  • When Novels Were Novel: Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • The Project
  • A Woman’s Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe
  • American Crime Fiction
  • Animals, Humans, Writing
  • The Brontës in Context
  • Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature
  • Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
  • The End of Empire: Post-Imperial Writing in Britain
  • Foundations of Activism
  • Global Capitalism and the Novel
  • Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945-2015
  • Magic, Marvels and Monsters in Medieval Literature
  • Marlowe vs Shakespeare
  • Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health
  • Places, Journeys, Borders
  • Queer Literature
  • Representing World War Two
  • #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics
  • The End of the World
  • The Gothic: Origins and Exhumations
  • The Love Poem: Romantic Language from Thomas Wyatt to Taylor Swift
  • The New Woman: First Wave Feminism and Women’s Writing, 1880-1920
  • The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction
  • Virginia Woolf and the Novel