BA English and Comparative Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 6 in English at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English and Comparative Literature, an English Literature and Modern Languages degree examining global literary texts and cultural traditions. Core topics include Research Methods. The first year establishes foundational perspectives through compulsory modules such as Worlds of Literature, Literature, Culture and Critique, and Reading Between the Lines. The second year shifts focus to international literary circulation with compulsory modules including Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature, Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture, and Body Language: Literature and Embodiment. The final year involves an independent Final Year Project which can take the form of a Dissertation, Textual Editing Project, or Public Engagement Project. Optional modules across the course span Renaissance Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Shakespeare, and Folklore and Mythology.
Modules
- Worlds of Literature
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Reading Between the Lines
- Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture
- Language: Structure and Sound
- World Histories
- Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application
- Politics, Culture and Society
- Discourse, Culture and Identity
- Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
- Drama: Reading and Interpretation
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Race, Writing and Decolonization
- Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature
- Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Renaissance Literature
- Towards the Future: Skills in Context
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660-1830
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- American Literature
- Contemporary Literature
- Medieval and Tudor Literature
- Black Europe
- Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World
- The Spaces of Russian Literature
- Global Environmental Humanities
- Homer's Iliad
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Final Year Project (Dissertation, Textual Editing Project, or Public Engagement Project )
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England
- Romantic Lyric Poetry
- Forming Victorian Fiction
- Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Language of the Media
- Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice and Interpretation
- Shakespeare
- Writing Modern Sexualities
- Contemporary World Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo
- Current Practice in Creative Writing
- States of Mind: Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture
- Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen
- Queens, Vikings, Poets and Dragons: Old English and Early Medieval Britain
- Folklore and Mythology
- Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from 'Don Quixote' to 'House of Leaves'
- Religion and Violence
- Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)
- Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption
- Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents
- Decolonial Approaches
- Social Movements across Cultures