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Description
Storytelling is a fundamental human activity. Every day we exchange jokes and anecdotes, and the important events in our lives need to be told and retold many times over before they achieve the pattern and polish to become the story of our lives. We tell and read stories for pleasure and information, but we also read to gain a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
The BA in English spans everything from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, Emily Bronte to Eminem. Traditional modules run alongside more innovative options covering areas such as fairytales, postmodernism, popular literature, south Asian writing, womens writing, experimental literatures and digital technologies.
Our courses are designed to develop your ability to read texts in increasingly complex and diverse ways. We explore literature by looking at its structures and forms as well as the varying contexts in which it is produced and read. We examine the relations between writer, text and reader and interrogate the ways in which contexts shape and affect interpretation of varieties of texts.
You will have the opportunity to specialise by selecting from a wide range of options according to your own particular tastes and interests, be they in contemporary poetry, drama, fiction, literatures of the past or literatures from cultures remote from our own.
Aims
This course covers all the major periods of literature from the Renaissance to the most recent publications in poetry, fiction and drama. We aim to introduce you right from the start to a variety of critical perspectives, approaches and contexts rather than simply providing a chronological or historical study of English literature, and our first priority is always to inform, stimulate and support you.
Detailed Course Facts
Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee- GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
- GBP 13000 Year (Non-EEA)
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
- English
Course Content
At Level 1, you are introduced to the study of English through modules that cover various periods and genres, literary locations and approaches to university-level research and writing skills. These modules include: Reading Resilience, Learning London and Texts, Contexts, Intertexts.
At Level 2, you will study some period-based modules such as Romanticism and Revolution, Shakespeare, the Nineteenth Century Novel, and Modernism. Critical theoretical perspectives are introduced in modules such as Postcolonial Writing and the Womens Movement.
At Level 3, you can choose from a wide range of modules that are research-led by experts in the field, including: Writing India; Moving Modernisms, Writing Ireland, Critical Perspectives (Historical and Contemporary); Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture; and Post-Millennial Fiction, 2000 to the Present. You will also complete a dissertation on a research topic of your choice.
Typical Modules
Year 1
Reading Resilience: Reading Lives
Learning London
Texts, Contexts, Intertexts: Early Modern / Modern Literature
Year 2
The 19th Century Novel
Shakespeare: Text and Performance
The Womens Movement
Postcolonial Writing
Modernism
Romanticism and Revolution
Year 3
Special Project
The Muslim World in Early Modern English Literature
Erotic Bodies: Gender, Sexuality and Early Modern Writing
Critical Perspectives: Historical Perspectives
Critical Perspectives: Contemporary Perspectives
Postcolonial Perspectives
Victorian Literature and Culture
Moving Modernisms
Writing Ireland
Writing India
Post-War and Late Twentieth Century Literature, 1945-2001
Post-Millennial Fiction, 2000 to the Present
Jane Austen and Her Novels
Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature
Modern British Poetry After Modernism and Postmodernism
Literary Geographies in Early Modern Britain
English Language Requirements
IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 580 TOEFL iBT® test : 92
To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to
take an IELTS test.Requirements
GCE A-level AAB - ABB. Typical offer AAB, including Grade B in English Literature or English Language & Literature.
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma D*D*D in a related subject (Applicants without A-Level English Literature or English Language & Literature will be required to submit a written sample of work on request).
BTEC Level 3 Diploma D*D in a related subject with an A-Level in English at grade A.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-Levels grade AA including English.
International Baccalaureate Diploma 35 points including Higher Level 5 in English.
Access to Higher EducationDiploma Complete and pass a related subject Access course with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. All English units must be Distinctions at level 3.
GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants within our grade range as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSEs.
English Language Requirements
IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)
Work Experience
No work experience is required.
Related Scholarships*
- Academic Excellence Scholarship
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
- Access Bursary
Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
- Alumni Bursary
Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students
* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.
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