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BA English Literature

University of Worcester

Institution
University of Worcester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
Q300
Typical offer
A-level BCC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC (including a minimum grade of C in English) BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: M

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The final year includes an independent research project on a self-chosen literary topic. A two-week abroad module offers study of international literary and cultural exchanges.

Modules

  • Literary Forms and Genres
  • Exploring the Canon
  • Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
  • Writing Worcester Past and Present
  • Places and Spaces
  • Bodies and Beings
  • Optional modules offered by the Centre for Academic English and Skills/Institute of Education
  • Exploring the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice
  • Movement and Migration
  • Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
  • Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
  • Gothic and Romantic Literature
  • Spaces of Modernity
  • Children’s Literature
  • Work Project
  • Optional modules offered by the Centre for Academic English and Skills/Institute of Education
  • Independent Research Project (Dissertation equivalent module)
  • Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
  • Postcolonial Encounters
  • Writing and the Environment
  • War and Conflict
  • Gendering Voices
  • Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
  • Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
  • Metamorphoses: Literature and Adaptation