BA English Literature (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in English Literature (Placement Year), an English Literature degree exploring diverse texts from antiquity to the present. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students undertake a professional placement year in the third year and complete an independent research project in the final year. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules Literature in Time, World Literatures, and Literary Adaptation, alongside a wide range of optional subjects. The second year focuses on critical theory and adaptation with compulsory modules Critical Practice, Critical Theory, and Literary Adaptation, while offering various historical and thematic options. The third year consists of the Work Based Learning Year module, placing students in a graduate-level professional role. The final year centres on independent research through the English Literature Dissertation, supported by optional modules covering authors, periods, and specialized genres such as Romanticism, Shakespeare, and Modernism.
Modules
- Literature in Time
- World Literatures
- Literature and Place
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- Foundations of Language
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- Raw Materials of Performance
- Understanding Media and Culture
- The Arts and Identity (Discovery module)
- Critical Practice
- Critical Theory
- Literary Adaptation
- Medieval to Early Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- American Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Writing Fiction
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- Work Based Learning Year
- English Literature Dissertation
- Contemporary Literature
- Romanticism
- Literature and Environment
- Special Topics in Theory
- Austen and the Brontës
- Gothic and Science Fiction
- Shakespeare
- Modernism
- The Use and Abuse of History
- Global Film Genres
- Live Performance Criticism
- Queer Futures (Discovery module)
- Artistic Fusions (Discovery module)