BA English
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (English Literature (or combined Literature and Language) required.) IB: 38 points (A total of 18 points in three higher level subjects including English A1 Literature/Language and Literature at grade 6, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BA in English, an English literature degree examining literary texts across diverse historical periods. Teaching incorporates one-to-one tutorials. The first year covers core foundations through Narrative Texts/Intellectual and Cultural Sources, Introduction to Medieval Literature (Old and Middle English), and Criticism and Theory. The second year introduces further study such as Chaucer and his Literary Background, alongside optional modules covering areas like American Literature to 1900, Modern English Language, and The Romantic Period. The final year includes compulsory modules Shakespeare, Research Essay, and Course Assessment, together with optional study spanning Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Literary Linguistics, and The Victorian Period.
Modules
- Narrative Texts/Intellectual and Cultural Sources
- Introduction to Medieval Literature (Old and Middle English)
- Criticism and Theory
- Chaucer and his Literary Background
- Renaissance II (1625-1700)
- The Romantic Period
- American Literature to 1900
- Old English Literature II
- History of the English Language
- Modern English Language
- Homosexuality and Queerness in Literary History
- Middle English Literature II
- The Modern Period II
- Renaissance II (1625-1700) (year 2 option choice for module registration)
- Shakespeare
- Research Essay
- Course Assessment
- Classical Poetry and its Reception in English Literature
- Renaissance I (1520-1625)
- Critical Commentary and Analysis
- The Victorian Period
- Old English Literature I
- Middle English Literature I
- The Modern Period I
- Literary Linguistics
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures