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BA English

Ulster University

Institution
Ulster University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA (Hons) English
Duration
6 years

About this course

BA (Hons) in English, covering literature, critical theory, and creative writing. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. An optional English Placement provides paid work experience in the creative and cultural industries. The programme is delivered part-time over six years.

Modules

  • University English Literature: An Introduction
  • Theory and Other Monsters
  • Writing Matters
  • Professional and Creative Writing: An Introduction
  • Irish Literature and Society: An Introduction
  • Pandemic Prose in the Viral Village
  • Detective Fiction
  • Early Modern English Culture 1509-1659: Poetry, Prose, Drama
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Tales of the Familiar and the Exotic: The Beginnings of Modern Fiction in English
  • Rhymes Of Passion: A Brief History Of Love Poetry
  • Modern Dramand Its Influences
  • Sex and the City of God: religion and sexuality in American literature
  • Writing and Editing
  • Angels, Madwomen and Whores
  • Writing the North: Ulster Literature
  • Contemporary World Fiction in English
  • How It Is: Samuel Beckett Studies
  • Adaptation and Historical Fiction
  • Gothic and Romantic Writing
  • Writing and Publishing
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Twentieth-Century Literature
  • English Placement
  • How to be Modern: Writing from the Jazz Age, 1910-1930
  • Bonnets, Beards and Bastards: The Fiction of the Victorian Period
  • Twentieth-Century American Literature
  • The Ulster-Scots Literary Tradition 1750 - 2000
  • Black Lives Recovered and Remade
  • The ‘Impact of Translation’ in Modern Irish and British Literature
  • Dissertation
  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature
  • Body, Mind and Soul in Novels and Non-Fiction from Addison to Austen
  • From The Vote To The Pill: C20th And C21st Women's Writing
  • Writing Ireland: Ulysses to Normal People
  • Shakespeare
  • Narratives of Slavery