BA English with Philosophy
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 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including 5 in an essay-based subject at Higher Level.
About this course
A BA in English Language and Literature and Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Modules include medieval literature from Beowulf to Chaucer, Shakespeare studies covering comedy, history, and tragedy, and European Philosophy from Kant to Hegel. Additional modules cover epistemology, philosophy of mind, and Victorian and modernist literature.
Modules
- Encountering Medieval Literature: From Beowulf to Chaucer
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Shakespeare
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Problems of Knowledge
- Introduction to European Philosophy 1: Kant to Hegel
- Mind and World
- 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
- 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
- Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
- 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
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Shakespeare on the Global Stage
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation
- Modern European Philosophy 1: Husserl to Heidegger
- Modern European Philosophy 2: Critical Theory and Hermeneutics
- Recovering Reality
- Philosophy and the Arts
- Practical Ethics
- The Varieties of Scepticism
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Modern French Philosophy
- The Philosophy of Religion
- Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy