SINGLE/COMBINED HONOURS
UCAS codes: Q300 BA/Eng
Typical offer: 320-360 points
An A level A*-C pass in English is required. This can be in English Literature, Language or English Language and Literature
International Baccalaureate: 27 points including 5 points subject at Higher Level
Degree duration:
3 years full-time 6 years part-time
If English is not your first language:
IELTS 6.0 (including 6.0 in writing) or a TOEFL iBT score of 87 or equivalent
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For Combined Honours UCAS codes and entry requirements
The core of the programme focuses on the literature aspect of English Studies. Study is wide-ranging including new and old literature, cultural study and critical analysis, Shakespeare and rap poetry. Single Honours students can incorporate some study of English Language and pursue some creative writing.
Year 1 provides an awareness of the range of different approaches to understanding texts and develops skills of critical analysis, research and writing. This is done through the study of an assortment of texts from various periods in history across the genres of prose fiction, poetry and drama. In Year 2, most modules involve study of a group of texts representative of a period of history, a particular genre or a particular area of the world. All the major literary figures and movements from Chaucer to the present day are available, including Shakespeare, Romantic poets, Victorian novelists and modern writers. Modules examining American literature, postcolonial literature and adaptation of literature for the screen are also available. In Year 3, a specific collection of writing or a particular theme is considered in detail and in depth and a wide variety of topics exist. Throughout Years 2 and 3 there are no mandatory modules, so students are free to choose modules that match their interests.
International exchanges (optional)
The University runs a developing range of one semester long exchanges and visits for Year 2 students with universities in Poland, Germany, Japan and the USA.
Year 1
• Research and Writing in English Studies
• Critical Reading in English Studies
• Reading Early English Texts
Year 2
• Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
• Chaucer and His World
• Victorian Fictions
• The Modern Age
• Literary Adaptations
Year 3
• Old English and Anglo Saxon Culture
• Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Jewish Identities
• Romanticism and Celebrity Culture
• The Literature of Sexuality
Graduates have gone on to become teachers, head teachers, lecturers,university professors, librarians, writers, publishers, journalists, television presenters, civil servants, accountants, theatrical producers, actors, musicians, singers and television producers.