BA English
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in English, a degree in English Literature focused on literary texts, critical analysis, and cultural history. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students may undertake a placement year and complete an independent dissertation in the final year. The first year covers foundational literary forms and historical contexts through compulsory modules such as English on the Move, Poetic Language, The Act of the Essay, The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern, and The Novel, alongside optional modules including Literary Transformations, Theory and Criticism, and World Dramas. The second year examines later periods and global texts through compulsory modules like Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module, The Worlding of English Literature, Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students, and Year in Employment, with optional modules such as AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis, Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data, and Scriptwriting. The third year centres on independent study with the compulsory English Dissertation, while optional modules allow students to explore topics like American Gothic, Fantasy Film and Fiction, and Holocaust Literature.
Modules
- English on the Move
- Poetic Language
- The Act of the Essay
- The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
- The Novel
- Literary Transformations
- Theory and Criticism
- World Dramas
- Desire and Decay: Literature of the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- The Worlding of English Literature
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- African Freedoms and the Novel
- Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Decolonising Modernity
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Mind, Matter, Machine: Writing and Technological Change
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
- Queering the Digital
- Retail Therapy: A Journey Through the Cultural History of Shopping
- Romantics and Victorians
- Scriptwriting
- Speech Acts
- Women, Writing and the Canon, 1770-1900
- English Dissertation
- Burning Worlds, Drowning Worlds: Oil Cultures, Climate Crisis, and Traumatic Desires in World Literatures
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- American Cinema Since 1965
- American Gothic
- Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Modern Britain
- Creative Writing in Schools
- Darwin and the Making of Evolutionary Thought: Myth, Memory, and Modern Society
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Digital Life: Myths, Social Media, And Artificial Intelligence
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- Holocaust Literature
- Money and Meaning in American Fiction
- Pirates, Princesses and the Politics of Romance
- Queering the Digital
- Scriptwriting
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era
- Telling True Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture