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Queen Mary, University of London

Bachelor Degree , English

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Course Description

Our exciting degree programme will teach you how to read and interpret texts from a wide range of periods, places and genres, and to understand them in their historical, political and cultural contexts.

You’ll gain a grounding in the critical and theoretical approaches that have shaped English literature in recent years. Our teaching takes an interdisciplinary approach: you’ll discover how philosophy, psychology and other disciplines can enrich our understanding of literary works.

Based in the heart of London, the English department has a world-class reputation and an impressive range of expertise and choice of modules. From medieval epics and Renaissance literary culture to cutting-edge contemporary fiction and everything in between, there are opportunities to personalise your English degree and study the topics that most interest you.

Pictured above: 2015 English graduate Raifa Rafiq (centre), who runs the successful literature podcast Mostly Lit.

Course Content

You can complete your English degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

YEAR 1

  • English in Practice
  • Literatures in Time: Texts and Contexts from the Eighth to the Sixteenth Century
  • Narrative
  • Poetry
  • Reading, Theory and Interpretation: approaches to the study of English Literature
  • Shakespeare

 

YEAR 2

Choose from

  • Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
  • Renaissance Literary Culture

Choose one from

  • Representing London: Writing the eighteenth-century city
  • Romantics and Revolutionaries
  • Victorian Fictions

Choose one from

  • Modernism
  • Postcolonial and Global Literatures
  • The Long Contemporary

You also choose one or two modules from a range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include

  • Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
  • Black and Asian Writing in Britain
  • Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
  • James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
  • Satire, Scandal and Society
  • The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
  • Women and their writing in the Romantic Period
  • Writing Now

 

YEAR 3

Compulsory

  • English Research Dissertation

You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a range of options that changes each year.

Modules may include

  • British Fictions of the 1960s
  • Creative Writing Prose Fiction
  • Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
  • James Joyce's Ulysses
  • Reading William Blake
  • Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
  • Writing Modern London
  • Writing Muslims

 

Entry Requirements

A-Level :- Grades ABB at A-Level. This must include grade A or above in A-Level English Literature or English Language and Literature. Applicants with A-Level English Language may be considered on an individual basis. Excludes General Studies and Critical Thinking.

IB :- International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 32 points overall, including 6,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. This must include a minimum of 6 in Higher Level English A.

BTEC :- See our detailed subject and grade requirements.

Access HE :- We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. This must include at least 6 Level 3 credits in English Literature or Literacy modules at Distinction.

GCSE :- Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4.

EPQ :- Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification.

Contextualised admissions :- We consider every application on its individual merits and will take into consideration your individual educational experiences and context. More information on how academic schools and programmes use this information as part of the admissions process, can be found on our contextualised admissions pages.

Assessment Methods

Assessment typically includes a combination of coursework (essays, projects, presentations, log books and portfolios) and exams. There are no English exams beyond the first year.

Additional Information

Degree :-  BA (Hons)

Duration :-  3 years

Start :-  September 2019

UK/EU fees :- £9,250

International fees :-  £16,200

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