BA English
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: A- Level B in an essay-based subject. We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 - 5,5,5 at Higher Level or 32-30 points overall Including 5 in an essay based subject at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature, covering over 1,000 years of literary history. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course offers multiple Shakespeare modules exploring comedy, history and tragedy, and a creative writing module is available as an option.
Modules
- Encountering Medieval Literature: From Beowulf to Chaucer
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Literature and Crisis
- Shakespeare
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Middle English Poetry
- Tolkien's Roots
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Modernisms
- Literature and the Digital
- Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Reading Like a Victorian
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- Poetic Practice
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Virginia Woolf
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation