BA English
Entry requirements
A level: ABB at A-level including English (Language, Literature or combined)
About this course
BA in English, exploring literature from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Core topics include Research Methods. From the first year, students choose from numerous optional modules, and creative writing is offered alongside literary study. The course connects students with the University's Centre for New Writing through the Literary Leicester programme.
Modules
- Dissertation (English)
- Dissertation (Creative Writing)
- Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
- Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time
- Writing Voices
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- Writing Prose Fiction
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
- Watching the Detectives: Crime on the Page and Screen
- Queering the Renaissance
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Weird Fiction/Weird Film
- The Other in American Fiction and Film
- The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
- Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
- Tragedy
- Twenty-First Century Global Literature
- Writing for Laughs
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Reading Poetry
- Writing Matters
- The Novel Around the World
- Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 1
- Film and Literature
- Feminist Fiction
- Introduction to Writing Creatively: Part 2
- Literature for Children and Young Adults
- American Literature in the Twenties and Thirties
- Critical Perspectives 1
- Critical Perspectives 2
- Romantic Literature from Blake to Shelley
- Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
- Chaucer’s Worlds
- Diversity in Contemporary American Literature
- Using Stories
- Gothic
- Modern Literature from Conrad to Orwell
- Contemporary Literature from 1945 to Now
- Advanced Creative Writing Skills
- Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
- Arts Journalism
- English and Education
- Your Career and Other Stories