| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-26 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
With a focus on current research and expertise, the program provides a stimulating environment for academic growth and the development of transferable skills for future employment. Assessment methods include essays, presentations, and a final dissertation, fostering a broad range of communication and professional competencies.
Program Outline
Whether you’re interested in literature, language, film or creative writing, you can tailor this course to your passions and interests. The academic staff who teach our English degree are recognised for their expertise in areas such as contemporary texts and theory, culture and communication, creative writing, and literature from the 16th century to the present day. Their knowledge of subject areas and enthusiasm for their research and teaching make this a vibrant and supportive place for you to study in, and to learn transferable skills for your future employment.
Outline
Core and Optional Modules
Year 1
Semester 1 & 2
#Compulsory Courses
- Writing in History
- Exploring Language and Linguistics ( Introduction to Language)
- Narrative Forms
- Analysing Poetry: Metre, Form and Meaning (Introduction to Poetry)
- #Optional Courses
- How to Do Things with Digital Texts
- University-wide Language Programme
Year 2
Semester 1
#Compulsory Courses
- Analysing Poetry: Metre, Form and Meaning (Introduction to Poetry)
- Theory Matters: Critiquing Inequalities
- #Optional Courses
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Love and Life in Stuart-Era Literature (1603-1714) (Renaissance Writings)
- Strange Fascination: Queer Desires and Identities in Literature, 1886-1952
- University-wide Language Programme
Semester 2
#Compulsory Courses
- The People's History: Representations of the English Civil War, Past and Present.
- #Optional Courses
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Modernisms
- Bleeding Red, White and Blue: The American Way of War
- Maps and Motors
- The Weird Tale
- Elephant Tales: Non-human Animals in Literature, Philosophy, and Film
- University-wide Language Programme
Year 3
Semester 1 & 2
#Compulsory Courses
- Dissertation
- #Optional Courses
- Twenty-First Century Literature
- Textual Editing in the Digital Age (Building Digital Editions)
- Neo-Victorianism
- Love, Poetry and War: The Modern Poet from Eliot to Plath
- University-wide Language Programme
- Adapting Shakespeare
- Driving On: Writing Towards Publication
Final year
Semesters 1 & 2
#Compulsory Courses
- Dissertation
- #Optional Courses
- Radicals and Reactionaries: Writing Women in 1890s
- Better Worlds? Utopian & Dystopian Texts and Contexts
- The People's History: Representations of the English Civil War, Past and Present. Students benefit from our Virtual Learning Environment (employing additional learning opportunities through online quizzes, discussion boards, and blogs) and library facilities, as well as other dedicated research and study environments
Methods of assessment include
- essays
- reflective commentaries
- seminar participation
- online in-class tests
- annotated bibliographies
- performance projects
- in-class presentations
- research projects,
- workbook/log books,
- group work,
- peer assessments and
- the final dissertation. Exposure to such a wide range of written and oral methods of communication builds a broad set of skills and professional competencies for maximum employability. This course is assessed entirely through coursework, as opposed to exams.
UK fees
Full-time course per annum £9,250 Placement year Approx. 20% of the full-time fee
International fees
Full-time course per annum £23,000 Placement year Approx. 20% of the full-time fee University fees and charges can be paid in advance and there are several methods of payment, including online payments and payment by instalment. Additional costs While the cost of your tuition covers lots of things, it doesn’t cover everything. For instance this course doesn’t cover the cost of any stationary, printing, books or re-assessments which you might need.
