English Literature with Drama - University of L

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GBP 22,400

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Medium of studying

Duration

36 months

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Degree

Bachelors

Major

English Literature | Literature

Area of study

Humanities

Course Language

English

Tuition Fee

Average International Tuition Fee

GBP 22,400

About Program

Program Overview

This exciting English and Drama program combines traditional English literature with specialized drama study. Students will explore dramatic texts from various eras, cultures, and genres, with a focus on their literary and historical contexts. Unique collaborations with local theaters and practitioners provide practical experiences, enhancing students' understanding of the interplay between literature and performance.

Program Outline

Your learning experience will be enhanced by our collaborative relationships with two local theatres – the Everyman & Playhouse and Shakespeare North – and the involvement of theatre practitioners, which offers valuable practical experiences to students. This is a new programme and is subject to formal university approval.

Introduction

Alongside the diverse and engaging modules available on the BA English Literature programme, you will have the opportunity to explore dramatic texts from a wide range of eras, culture and genres, thinking about the texts in terms of ‘close reading’ their literary styles and techniques, as well as thinking about the wider social and historical contexts of their creation and performance. You will be encouraged to think beyond the words on the page to their wider lives and meanings in performance, politics, and humanity throughout history. As you progress, there will be opportunities to focus more closely on specific eras of dramatic history and context and genre, including the advent of public theatre in the sixteenth century, global drama, contemporary playwrights, and writing for radio.

Year in industry

This programme is available with an optional year in industry. If you choose this option, year three is spent on a paid placement within an organisation in industry, broadly defined. You will be supported by the School of the Arts and the Department throughout, and your reflexive written account of the experience will contribute towards your final degree result. If you wish to study this programme with a year in industry, please put the option code ‘YI’ in the ‘further choices’ section of your UCAS application form.

English Attainment Scholarships

We are pleased to offer two attainment scholarships per year to undergraduate students from the UK. The scholarships will cover the entire UK tuition fee for both years two and three (currently £9,250 per annum). Awards will be made by the department at the end of year one, based on performance.

What you'll learn

Knowledge of one or more specific literary and dramatic / theatrical historical periods
An awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and drama
Critical thinking
Teamwork
How to undertake research
How to present and communicate clearly
How to debate, argue and persuade
The ability to write well-constructed prose and/or dramatic writing
Literary analysis, criticism and/or data collection

Outline:

Year One

Compulsory Modules:
CLOSE READING (ENGL103):
Literature and Place: City, Country, Planet (ENGL102): This module will examine the ways in which English literature has represented the concept of place in a variety of genres across time (1350 to the present day).
Literature in Time (ENGL117): This module serves as an introduction to the major periods of English literature from the Middle Ages onwards.
Reading Drama (ENGL119): This module will cover a range or dramatic texts from different culture and eras, exploring the processes of reading them whilst thinking about genre and context.
Ways of Reading (ENGL113): This module will allow students to develop critical methods of reading and contextual analysis of literary texts.

Year Two

Optional Modules:
ART AND VIOLENCE: VISUAL CULTURES AND THE MEDIA IN MODERN FRANCE (FREN220):
British Writing since 1945: Fiction and Drama (ENGL215):
CREATIVITY: SOCIALLY-ENGAGED WRITING PRACTICE (ENGL275): This module introduces students to a variety of theoretical and practical contexts for thinking about creativity and the writing process.
LIVING THE GLOBAL EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (HLAC200): This module introduces you to aspects of life in Britain and Europe between about 1740 and 1815.
Knights, Enchantresses and Rogues, 1100-1500 (ENGL270): This is a level 2 module, designed to introduce students to a range of medieval literature in the original Middle English language.
MODERNIST LITERATURE (ENGL232): In the period 1900–45 writers challenged all assumptions about what narrative does, about how we read, and how we represent and interpret the world.
OVID (CLAH212): This module explores the works of the Roman poet Ovid which span a wide range of genres and themes.
Professional and Career Development (SOTA260): The module aims to prepare students for a smooth transition into a work placement year and, more broadly, to develop lifelong skills, attitudes and behaviours and support students in their continuing professional development.
REBUILDING TROY (CLAH211): The Trojan War is one of the ‘great stories’ of Western culture.
Romantic Literature (ENGL218): Romanticism is a cultural movement dominant in Europe from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries.
Shakespeare in Context (ENGL214): This module examines Shakespeare’s plays in relation to the early modern socio-cultural contexts in which they were written and first performed.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE (ENGL243): The aim of the Victorian Literature module is to expose students to a wide variety of texts written and published between 1837 and 1901, an extremely diverse period of literary history.
WEIMAR FILM AND LITERATURE: THE CITY AND MODERNITY (GRMN218): Situated between the end of World War One and the Nazi takeover of power, the Weimar Republic witnessed a ‘crisis of classical modernity’; the period retains a reputation for modernity and decadence.
WOMEN IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HISP219): This module will introduce students to a range of literary and cultural forms which give prominence to women’s roles in cultural and social change.
World Drama (ENGL216): This module explores the diversity of theatre and performance forms across the world, considering how they can be understood in dialogue with each other and their particular social and political contexts.

Year Three

Compulsory Modules:
Work Placement Year (SOTA600):
Optional Modules:
AESTHETICS (PHIL316):
ALMOST SHAKESPEARE (ENGL359): This module examines twentieth-century ‘offshoots’ that re-think and reinvent some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, as well as his life and ‘character’ as an author.
BRITISH POETIC WRITING SINCE 1930 (ENGL305): This module focuses on British poetry from c.1930s – the present.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (ENGL373): This module explores Children’s Literature from its ‘Golden Age’ in the late C19th through to the present day, considering its development and innovations through this period, alongside the traditional and sustained features of the genre.
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS: MEMORY AND TRANSCULTURAL MOBILITY (MODL326): This module explores the relationship between comics, memory and history.
CREATIVE WRITING (POETRY) (ENGL372): This is a 15-credit Level 6 module.
CREATIVE WRITING (PROSE) (ENGL377): This module will give students an opportunity to write a short story, and reflect critically on the writing and editing process in a workshop situation.
RESEARCHING DIGITAL CULTURES IN THE AMERICAS (HISP348): This module develops research and critical skills when examining digital cultures with a particular focus on the Americas.
DISSERTATION (OVER BOTH SEMESTERS) (ENGL380): This module gives you the option to write a 10,000-word dissertation.
DISSERTATION (SEMESTER ONE) (ENGL311): This module gives you the option to write a 10,000-word dissertation.
DISSERTATION (SEMESTER TWO) (ENGL379): This module gives you the option to write a 10,000-word dissertation.
FAIRYTALES AND FEAR: THE FANTASTIC IN LITERATURE (GRMN316): Fiction is a place where unreal things can happen…
GAMES PLAYING ROLES (ENGL397):
Gothic Fiction and Film (ENGL325): This module examines the history of Gothic fiction from the 18th century to the present day and explores relationships between literature and film in the evolution of the genre.
NEW TRENDS IN ITALIAN CINEMA (ITAL321): This module aims to introduce students to the new trends in contemporary Italian cinema and to the main relevant theoretical and critical approaches in the field.
JAMES JOYCE: A WRITING LIFE (ENGL499): This module examines the life and work of Ireland’s greatest and most influential fiction writer, James Joyce, from his 1914 collection of short stories, Dubliners, through his first novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and onward to his later masterpieces, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Human/Non-human Encounters in Medieval Literature (ENGL375): This module invites students to read a variety of medieval (and some pre-medieval) texts and consider how they reflect various types of encounter between human and other worlds, such as animal, monster, ghostly, spiritual, dream and other such non-human worlds.
MILLENNIAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE (ENGL301): The module covers a series of strategies adopted by millennial writers to engage with the literary, cultural and international discourses of the late 20th and early 21st century.
NOIR: LITERATURE, FILM, ART (ENGL321): This module examines the range of writing, film and art within the genre of Noir.
Popular Culture, Language and Politics (COMM318): The module explores how popular culture can be political by examining a range of popular cultural commodities discursively.
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND THEORY (ENGL401): This module aims to introduce students to the field of postcolonial literature and theory through the close study of a range of fiction written by writers from British ex-colonies in South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
SCREENING TEXTS (MODL328): A large proportion of films are based on written texts and this module will introduce you to a range of cinematic adaptations of literary works from across Modern Languages.
WAR WRITING (ENGL488): War Writing addresses the ways that wartime and peacetime are imagined by writers in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Breaking the Sentence: Literature and Feminisms (ENGL347): This module engages with twentieth-century and contemporary feminisms and their relation to literature of the period.
Work Placement Year (SOTA600): This is an opportunity to spend the third year of your studies working as part of your degree programme.
IMAGINING THE MIGRANT SELF: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE (ENGL486): We, as a society, confront narratives of migrant experience daily.

Assessment:

The main modes of assessment are through a combination of essay and examination, but depending on the modules taken you may encounter project work, presentations (individual or group), and portfolios of creative work or specific tests focused on editing, translation or etymological tasks.

Teaching:

You will experience a mix of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, with no modules being taught entirely through lectures. Alongside independent study and research, some modules require timetabled student group work. Tutorials allow for discussion of key readings, concepts and ideas, typically in groups of up to nine students. Seminar groups are larger, but do not normally exceed 18; they usually last for between one and a half to two hours. Workshops are similar in size but have a more distinct practical element (eg in drama or language modules). As a student in the School of the Arts, you will be supported to maximise your employability from day one. The school has its own placements and employability officer, and you will have the opportunity to undertake a work placement or a year in industry as part of your programme. Many graduates move on to have careers in the arts, the media, publishing, marketing, events, and project management, working for employers like:

BBC
Liverpool Echo
The Guardian
The Royal Shakespeare Company
Hodder & Stoughton
Routledge
Oxford University Press
Macmillan
Liverpool University Press
The Civil Service.

Other:

The Department of English is based in the School of the Arts, although teaching will take place across the campus.
We have a distinctive approach to education, the Liverpool Curriculum Framework, which focuses on research-connected teaching, active learning, and authentic assessment to ensure our students graduate as digitally fluent and confident global citizens.
The Department of English is in the top 100 English Language and Literature departments in the world according to QS Top Universities rankings
We are internationally renowned for advancing the study of language, literature, and creative writing and have a strong research ethos
We are committed to small group teaching.
Ranked 10th in sector for research impact classified as outstanding (4 ) (REF 2021)
We are host to Europe’s largest collection of science fiction materials which includes the John Wyndham Archive and home to the annual Liverpool Literary Festival.

Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching and assessment, operating facilities such as libraries, IT equipment, and access to academic and personal support.

English Literature with Drama Studies BA (Hons)