BA English
Entry requirements
Scottish Higher: Standard Entry Requirement: ABBB including English or literary subject. Minimum Offer Entry Requirement: BBBC including English or literary subject. A level: BBC including English or literary subject. Irish Leaving Certificate: H2, H2, H2, H3 at HL including English or literary subject. BTEC Extended Diploma: Minimum grades DMM (Distinction, Merit, Merit) in a related subject, plus A Level English or literary subject at Grade C. IB: Award of Diploma with 29 points overall with three HL subjects at grades 6,5,5 including English or literary subject. HNC: Pass HNC in Media and Communications, Creative Industries: Media and Communication, Practical Journalism or Creative Industries: Television with grade B in the graded unit. T Level: Grade Merit T Level must be completed in a English/literary subject or A Level English/literary subject may be required. Please contact ugadmissions@napier.ac.uk to check if you meet the subject specific requirements. *Literary subjects: Modern Studies, History, Psychology, RMPS, Latin, Sociology, Theology, Media Studies, Politics, Classics, Philosophy, Geography, A Level Government and Politics, A Level Classical Civilisation, A Level Drama
About this course
BA (Hons) English, covering literature from the early modern period to contemporary fiction. Core topics include literary analysis across periods, film and television studies, creative writing, and the study of popular culture forms including comics. The programme offers optional study abroad at a partner university or a work placement year. The BA (Hons) English scored 100% for overall satisfaction in the 2026 National Student Survey.
Modules
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Text and Context
- 18th and 19th-Century Texts and Contexts
- Reading Texts: Analysing Film, Literature and Culture
- Literature and Adaptation
- The World at War: Writing and Watching Global Conflict
- The Modern Novel
- American Outlaws: Modern American Writing
- Creative Writing: Finding Your Voice
- Generation Television: US Complex TV 1990 - Present
- Unsuitable for Adults? Children’s Literature
- Narratives of Social and Sexual Deviance: Rethinking the Victorians
- C21 Literature: Writing the Unfolding Present
- Narratives of Nature
- Unacknowledged Legislators: Poets in History and Society
- Television Studies
- Women’s Writing and Filmmaking
- Bloody Bodies: Violence in Early Modern Drama
- Science Fiction: Genres and Criticism
- Comics and Culture
- Modern Scottish Fiction
- Fictions of Terror: From Dynamite Violence to Media Spectacle
- Global Shakespeare: Adaptation and Appropriation
- Film and Comics
- Keeping up Appearances: Facing Prejudice in Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Crime in Text and Film
- Migration, Literature and Decolonisation
- The Gothic Tradition
- The Concept of Intelligence in Literature, Film and Culture
- Utopia, Dystopia and the Global Political Imagination