BA English 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 with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Literature, an English Literature degree examining texts from various historical periods, authors, and cultures. The course culminates in a compulsory final-year project. The first year introduces foundational approaches through compulsory modules including Race, Writing and Decolonization, Reading Between the Lines, and Literature, Culture and Critique, alongside optional modules in poetry, drama, and modern fictions. The second year focuses on specific cultural and environmental contexts with compulsory modules such as Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture and Body Language: Literature and Embodiment, complemented by a broad selection of historical and global optional modules ranging from Renaissance literature to postcolonial and contemporary texts. The third year centres on independent research via the Final Year Project, while optional modules allow students to explore diverse specialized topics such as crime fiction, digital discourse, global African writing, refugee narratives, and Shakespeare in cinema.
Modules
- Race, Writing and Decolonization
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Modern Fictions in English
- Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Renaissance Literature
- Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Contemporary Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660-1830
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- American Words, American Worlds
- Final Year Project
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media
- Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI
- Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
- Global African Writing
- Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Language of the Media
- Postcolonial London
- Refugee Narratives
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Shakespeare and Global Cinema
- Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir