BA English Literature
Entry requirements
104-112 points at A2 including English or related subject BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM including English or related subject BTEC Diploma: D*D-D*D* including English or related subject Pass Access Course: 104-112 points including English or related subject International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 104-112 points from Higher Level subjects including English or related subject T Level: M including English or related subject IELTS: 6.0 with no score lower than 5.5 GCSEs: 5 at grade C/4 including Maths and English or equivalent
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Project Management, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Optional modules span genres including American literature, Gothic, graphic novels, drama, theatre, children’s literature and fairy tales. Students complete a research and employability module involving portfolio development and project work.
Modules
- Reading Texts
- Story Shapes: Drama, Structure and Plot
- Literary Landscapes
- Introduction to American Literature and Culture
- Introduction to Renaissance Literature
- Readers and Reviewers
- A World of Difference: Literature in Translation
- English Employability and Research
- The Gothic in Literature, Visual Culture and Film
- Reading and Writing Fairy Tales
- From Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789 - 1900
- The Graphic Novel
- The Shock of the New: Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Literature into Film
- Otherworlds: Reading and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Culture