English

Description

Passionate about literature, creative writing and the English language? The BA(Hons) English degree gives students the opportunity to study literary texts and English language while developing skills in critical analysis and creative writing. English at UCS provides solid preparation for postgraduate study as well as a route into teaching, professional writing, publishing, speech therapy and other areas where communication and critical skills are important.

First year students learn to analyse, evaluate and write about a variety of print, multimedia and digital texts. In the second year students explore critical approaches to literature and language and can choose modules on fiction, poetry, drama and creative writing. Final year students undertake independent research on a chosen topic and can embark on a professional practice module in education or professional writing along with taking modules in more specialist subjects, such as autobiography and scriptwriting.

Our graduates have been successful in gaining employment in journalism, copywriting and marketing and postgraduate training places in teaching. Our staff includes writing professionals with links to publishers and writers organisations. With guided career planning, students develop portfolios of their work through the creative and professional writing modules, contributing to the student magazine and short story anthology or through their work experience. Students on our professional practice modules make links with placements in local schools or with internships in internet based media and publishing companies.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 9550 Year (EEA)
• EUR 12530 Year (Non-EEA)

UK/EU Fees Students starting at UCS from September 2012 will be charged £8000 for a full-time Bachelors degree or £7500 for a full-time Foundation degree. Tuition fees for full-time International Study: Classroom-based 10,500 GBP (£) Laboratory-based 12,600 GBP (£)

• English

Course Content

Content and Modules

Students on the BA (Hons) English degree take six twelve-week modules at each level, generally three in each semester. The Dissertation in English is a year-long 40 credit module. Mandatory modules are in bold.

First year modules include:

• Textual Studies in English 1
• Textual Studies in English 2
• Language Analysis
• The Nineteenth Century Novel
• Reading and Writing Poetry
• Exploring Drama

Second year modules include:

• Critical Theory
• Critical Lanaguage Studies
• Romanticism
• Women's Fiction
• The Short Story (creative writing)
• Seventeenth Century Poetry
• Drama: Realism and Beyond
• Shakespeare

• Modernism

Third year modules include:

• Dissertation in English
• Post-colonial Writings
• America in the 1950s
• Autobiography
• Professional Writing Practice
• Digital Textuality
• Scriptwriting
• English Education Practice

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 CAE score : 75(Grade B) TOEFL paper-based test score : 550 TOEFL iBT® test : 79

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Requirements

English language requirements

All students need to be able to understand and express themselves in both written and spoken English. Students whose first language is not English will need to take a recognised English Language test in advance of commencing a course at UCS and before the Confirmation of Acceptance (CAS) letter is issued for visa purposes.
UCS accepts a range of English qualifications, with the following standards required:
IELTS (academic version): 6.0 for all degrees, apart from Diagnostic Radiography,Radiotherapy and Oncology, ODP and all Pre-Registration Nursing and Midwifery courses that require 7.0. Postgraduate courses generally require between 6.5 and 7.0.
TOEFL: 550 on paper-based test; 213 on computer-based test; or 79-80 on the internet-based test for all degrees
Pearson Test of English Academic - Minimum score of 50 is required
Cambridge Proficiency Certificate: Grade C; Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: Grade B
GCE O-level or GCSE English Language/Use of English: Grade C
Test in English for Educational Purposes (TEEP) International Baccalaureate English Grade B (standard level).
Hong Kong Certificate of English Education

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 University Campus Suffolk.

Funding

National Scholarship Programme

As part of the new student finance system, students with households incomes under £25,000 per year will benefit from a new National Scholarship Programme. This new scheme is targeted towards students who most need financial help.
The National Scholarship is funded jointly by the Government and Universities. UCS has been awarded a number of National Scholarships which students can apply for Suffolk Access Champion Scheme
The Suffolk Access Champion Scheme will be open to eligible students currently studying at a Suffolk State Sixth form, College or Academy, and applying to study at UCS on a full-time undergraduate degree programme in 2012-13.
The Suffolk Access Champion will work over two years mentoring Year 10 and 11 students to encourage progression on to higher education.

Scholarships for international students

UCS offers a generous scholarship scheme for all undergraduate students paying international fees.
All international students that are offered and have firmly accepted a place on a full-time undergraduate Foundation or Honours degree course at UCS by the 30 September for the year of entry, will be eligible for a scholarship of £1,000 per year for the duration of their course. This scholarship will be awarded each year once annual fees have been paid in full.
Please note that any international students accepted on a course that requires a practice placement with a Primary Care Trust, for example Nursing, Midwifery or Radiography, will incur an additional £3000 fee per each year of study (this excludes all British Islands students except the Falkland Islands).