Bachelor of Arts - English Literature (Placement Year) (Q321)

Loughborough's BA (Hons) English Literature degree is a fantastic opportunity to pursue students' love of literature – studying texts from the Renaissance period right through to the twenty-first century. Students will develop key skills, using different theoretical approaches to interpret texts across a number of genres. With a choice of core and optional modules students will be able to tailor the English Literature degree to suit their interests.

The English Literature degree will introduce students to key concepts and periods in their first year, through a range of carefully designed core modules introducing the fundamentals of poetic language and form, the study of language, literary theory, narrative forms and fictions, and the major periods of literary history. In addition, students will be given the opportunity to choose an optional module, with current offerings including ‘Introduction to Film’ and a new module (‘How to Do Things with Digital Texts’) which examines the significance of how literature can be studied in the digital age. Modules on offer in the second year include core options surveying the major authors and periods in literary history including Renaissance writing and Victorian literature, and a range of optional modules allowing students to tailor their studies to their interests. Staff have expertise in the latest thinking in areas such as the staging of Shakespeare, the adaptation of literature into film, Romanticism, contemporary writing, American culture, modern poetry, and the relationship between language and social identity.