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BA English Literature

Northumbria University

Institution
Northumbria University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature BA (Hons)
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
Q320
Typical offer
A-level CA, UCAS 96-112

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff: 96 to 112 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students can undertake an optional professional placement year or study abroad period during their studies.

Modules

  • Introduction to Literary Studies
  • Representing the US: From Slavery to Terrorism
  • Reading Poetry
  • Concepts in Criticism and Culture
  • Talking Texts
  • Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
  • Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit)
  • Early Modern Cultures
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Tragedy
  • Literature and Adaptation
  • Historical Fiction
  • Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism
  • Literature in the Museum: Working in the Heritage Sector
  • Bad Education
  • Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
  • Student Tutoring
  • Humanities Work Placement Year
  • Humanities Study Abroad Year
  • English Dissertation
  • Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities
  • Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context
  • History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War
  • Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture
  • Shaking up Shakespeare
  • Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present
  • Writing and Environment
  • Victorian Sensation Fiction
  • Staging Early Modern Gender
  • Audio Storytelling
  • Skills for Academic Success in a UK University