Bachelor of Arts (Honours) English Literature

In Year One, students will develop key skills and subject knowledge that will equip them for more advanced and specialised modules in the later years of the degree. Students will explore the ways in which literary texts and themes are rewritten and reinterpreted in different historical and cultural contexts. Students will consider how literary texts interact with and speak to their own and other social contexts, what it means to interpret texts, and how meanings emerge from reading.

Year Two will give students the opportunity to study texts from particular literary periods, ranging from the medieval to the modern. These modules will help students to develop a detailed understanding of the range of literatures written in a particular period, and the ways in which they relate to wider social, artistic and political contexts. Modules in Year Three allow further specialisation, with focus on specific genres, such as children’s literature, Noir, or the Gothic, and on advanced study of literary periods that considers matters such as reception, translation and adaptation. Students will also have options to study modules in creative writing.

Year Three also includes an optional dissertation module, which allows students to work on a research project of their own design; and the option to undertake a work placement with an organisation relevant to their degree.