BA English Literature
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB IB: 34; 33, with B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in English Literature BA, an English Literature degree spanning over 1,000 years of literary art, engaging with film, theatre, and creative writing. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Design & Creative Practice. Students engage with film, theatre, and creative writing alongside expert faculty, building a skill set derived from centuries of global literary traditions. The first year covers foundations through compulsory modules such as Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature, Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism, Contemporary Literature, and Reading Theatre and Film, while optional choices include Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre, Myth, Scripture and Story: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature, Wonders, Warriors, and Werewolves: Intro to Medieval Literature and Language, The Creative Writing Lab, and Darwin, Marx, Freud. In the second year, students take compulsory modules including Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a) and Literature and Critical Theory (a), with optional modules such as English Works: Foundations, English Works: Enhanced, Creative Writing Experiments, Chaucer, Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Screen, and Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible. The third year centres on compulsory project work through Project Module 1 and Project Module 2, alongside a wide range of optional modules including The Invention of Romanticism, Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis, Research Topics in Theatre and Film, Mod Cons: Exploring the Long 20th Century, Creative Writing: The Experimental Text, Writing Fiction 3, Middlemarch, The Idea of America, Life After Death? Romantic Poets and Writing the Afterlife, Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature, Reading Animals, Fin de siècle Gothic, and Privilege and Subversion in Early Modern Drama, 1580-1700.
Modules
- Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature
- Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism
- Contemporary Literature
- Reading Theatre and Film
- Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre
- Myth, Scripture and Story: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature
- Wonders, Warriors, and Werewolves: Intro to Medieval Literature and Language
- The Creative Writing Lab
- Darwin, Marx, Freud
- Try a new subject: The flexible structure of your first year at Sheffield means that you also have the chance to experie
- Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a)
- Literature and Critical Theory (a)
- English Works: Foundations
- English Works: Enhanced
- Creative Writing Experiments
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Screen
- Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible
- Try a new subject: The flexible structure of your first year at Sheffield means that you also have the chance to experie
- Project Module 1
- Project Module 2
- The Invention of Romanticism
- Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis
- Research Topics in Theatre and Film
- Mod Cons: Exploring the Long 20th Century
- Creative Writing: The Experimental Text
- Writing Fiction 3
- Middlemarch
- Chaucer
- The Idea of America
- Life After Death? Romantic Poets and Writing the Afterlife
- Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature
- Reading Animals
- Fin de siècle Gothic
- Privilege and Subversion in Early Modern Drama, 1580-1700
- Try a new subject: The flexible structure of your first year at Sheffield means that you also have the chance to experie