English with Integrated Foundation Year
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: CCC-CCD (Required subjects: An Essay based subject We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C) T-levels We accept T-levels for admission to our undergraduate courses, with the following grades regarded as equivalent to our standard A-level requirements: AAA* – Distinction (A* on the core and distinction in the occupational specialism) AAA – Distinction BBB – Merit CCC – Pass (C or above on the core) DDD – Pass (D or E on the core) Where a course specifies subject-specific requirements at A-level, T-level applicants are likely to be asked to offer this A-level alongside their T-level studies.) IB: 24 points overall Including Grade 4 in a HL essay-based subject
About this course
English with Integrated Foundation Year in English Language and Linguistics. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The Foundation Year shares modules across Arts and Humanities departments, with students progressing to BA English upon completion. Over 40 optional modules span medieval to contemporary literature, and a third-year dissertation allows independent research on a specialist topic.
Modules
- Cultures of Thinking
- Culture and Memory
- Society on Screen
- Textual Cultures
- Foundation Year English
- 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
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- 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
- On Murder
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- Brexit, Literature and Discipline of English
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reading Like a Victorian
- First World War Literature
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- Poetic Practice
- Violence, Sex and Magic in Medieval Literature
- Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation