BA English Literature and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including grade B in English Literature or a related subject. Related subjects are English Language, English Language & Literature, Drama & Theatre Studies and Creative Writing. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in higher level English or a related subject listed above
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations and English Language and Literature. Core topics include research methods and critical and analytical thinking. The programme includes a dedicated work placement and project module, and students can take part in United Nations and Middle East simulations.
Modules
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Poetry in English
- Politics of Climate Change
- Introduction to Contemporary Democracy
- Introduction to Political Ideas
- Introduction to Drama
- Shelf Life
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- What is Comparative Literature?
- The Study of Politics
- Shakespeare
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Global Order
- British Government and Politics
- Political Thinking
- Work Placement and Project
- War, Peace and International Ethics
- Early Modern Texts and Cultures
- Politics Classics
- Contemporary Strategy
- The Media and Politics
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Critical Thinking
- American Government and Politics
- The Business of Books
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Dissertation in English Literature
- Dissertation in Politics
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Literature and Mental Health
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- International Terrorism
- British Foreign and Defence Policy since 1945
- Global Justice
- Politics and Governance in the Global South
- Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
- Karl Marx
- American Foreign Policy since The Vietnam War
- The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- International Political Economy
- Gender and Politics
- Feminism and Political Theory
- Risk
- Shakespeare on Film
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Children's Literature
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama