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BA (Hons) English Studies (with Foundation Year)

Teesside University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You explore a traditional and respected academic subject innovatively and creatively by raising challenging questions and encompassing modern and experimental writing styles alongside other cultural forms, including digital works, film and television.

Graduates thrive in various professional settings, including digital copywriting, teaching, publishing, business start-ups and marketing.

This degree opens career opportunities in journalism, media and communication, retail management, local government, the creative and cultural industries, arts administration, civil service, education, performing arts and the law.

General Eligibility

  • A typical offer is 32-64 tariff points from at least two A, T, or equivalent levels.

  • For general information, please see our overview of entry requirements

  • International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting Your Country

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Foundation Year

Core modules

  • Academic Study Skills Toolkit

  • Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences

  • Fake News: Propaganda and Polemics, Past and Present

  • Historical and Popular Crime, Justice, Law and Psychology

  • Project

  • Teesside: History, Literature, Culture, and Society

2 Year 1

Core modules

  • Concepts of Culture

  • Creative Writing Lab: Writing and Audience

  • Critical Practice

  • Literature Now

  • Romantics to Realism

  • Victorian Horizons: Writing 1837–1901

3 Year 2

Core modules

  • Challenging Boundaries: Postmodern and Postcolonial Writing

  • Literature in Theory: Author, History, Text, Politics

  • Make it New: The Age of Modernism

  • Representation and Cultural Identity: Student Conference

  • Speculative Writing: Histories, Anxieties, and Fantasies

and one optional module

  • Employability and Work-Related Learning

  • Words Matter: A Celebration of English and Creative Writing

4 Year 4

Core modules

  • Doing Research

  • English Studies Dissertation

  • Present Tense: Writing for the Twenty-First Century

and two optional modules

  • Deception and Detection from the 19th Century to the Present

  • Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in Literature and Culture

  • Genres, Movements, Histories

  • Writing Popular Culture

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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