BA English
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including one of the following subjects: English (Literature, Language, or both), any Language subject, Geography, History, Classical Civilisation, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies or Sociology. IB: 32 (6,5,5 HL) to include one of the following subjects at HL: English (Literature, Language or both), any Language subject, Geography, History, Philosophy, Global Politics, Psychology, World Religions, Social and Cultural Anthropology. BTEC: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DDM plus an A level grade B in a required subject. BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus one A level in a required subject at Grade B. BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate: D plus two A levels at Grades BB including one required subject. Preferred BTEC: Performing Arts, Art & Design, Digital Film and Video Production, Business IT, Applied Science, Sport, Sport and Exercise Science, Health & Social Care.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English, an English degree exploring literary history, dramatic forms, and narrative fiction. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course offers a placement year option alongside its standard three-year study route. The first year covers core foundations through Writing in History, Introduction to Drama, Narrative Forms, Analysing Poetry: Metre, Form and Meaning, and Theory Matters. Optional subjects at this stage include creative writing and film. The second year provides a broad selection of period and thematic studies, featuring modules such as Victorian Literature, Love and Life in Stuart-Era Literature (1603-1714), Modernisms, and Screen Cultures. The final year centres on an independent English Dissertation alongside advanced optional topics like Adapting Shakespeare and Global America.
Modules
- Writing in History
- Introduction to Drama
- Narrative Forms
- Analysing Poetry: Metre, Form and Meaning
- Theory Matters
- Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to Film
- Slavery to Black Lives Matter: African American Culture 1840 - present
- University-wide Language Programme
- Victorian Literature
- Love and Life in Stuart-Era Literature (1603-1714)
- Strange Fascination: Queer Desires and Identities in Literature, 1886-1952
- Animal Tales: Non-human Animals in Fiction, Film and Philosophy
- Your Future Career: Preparing for the World of Work
- Victorian Values Reconsidered
- Modernisms
- Literature from 1990
- Screen Cultures
- Weird Fiction
- Maps and Motors
- The American Century: US Politics and Society in the 20th Century (10 credits)
- University-wide Language Programme
- English Dissertation
- Radicals and Reactionaries: Writing Women in 1890s
- Cruel and Unusual: Punishment on trial in American Culture
- Love, Poetry and War: The Modern Poet from Eliot to Plath
- Maladies and Medicines
- Neo-Victorianism
- Adapting Shakespeare
- Driving On: Writing Towards Publication
- Global America
- University-wide Language Programme