BA English Literature with Foundation
Entry requirements
A level: CCD We welcome applicants from non-traditional educational backgrounds (for example, mature students, students who study part-time or those who have studied at International Schools in the UK or elsewhere) and will consider applicants on a case-by-case basis. IB: 24 points overall
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature, exploring literature across genres and periods. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The four-year programme includes a foundation year designed to prepare students for undergraduate-level study, and culminates in a supervised dissertation based on independent research.
Modules
- Learning for Change: Academic Skills and Sustainable Development
- Global Identities
- Film Narrative
- Environmental Humanities
- Changing Identities
- Introducing Language and Communication
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Introduction to Drama
- Poetry in English
- Prose: Writing Identities
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- What Is Comparative Literature?
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Myth, Legend and Romance: Medieval Storytelling
- Victorian Literature
- Contemporary Fiction
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- The Business of Books
- Early Modern Literature
- Critical Thinking
- Dissertation
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Lyric Voices, 1340-1650
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
- Literature and Mental Health
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Psychoanalysis and Text
- Shakespeare on Film
- James Joyce
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Placing Jane Austen
- Environment, Ecology and Literature
- Literature and Healing
- Medieval Other worlds
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry
- Global Literatures: Translation as Theme and Theory
- Margaret Atwood
- Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
- American Graphic Novels
- Children's Literature