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BA (Hons)English and Philosophy

Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The course is both historical and contemporary in its focus and aims to show how philosophy can only be fully understood within a wider literary context, and that literature inescapably touches on issues of the highest moment.

The course investigates the nature, significance, and contemporary relevance of a range of literary and philosophical texts across time and space, exploring their globality and contemporary positioning about mental health, environmental, and other sustainability agendas.  You will engage with both ancient and modern texts in ways that demonstrate that the study of English Literature and Philosophy remains of pre-eminent significance about the world's most pressing challenges.

With this focus to the fore, the course will offer a fully interdisciplinary approach to English Literature and Philosophy to analyze and explain the complex interrelations that exist between the logical, ethical, social, political, institutional, and technological dimensions of texts and meanings, with a specific emphasis upon how literary and philosophical skills are fast becoming key to unlocking the employability potential of undergraduates in the Humanities for future high skilled professional roles.

General Eligibility

For UK Students:

  • Standard offer: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications

  • Contextual offer: 104 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications.

  • GCSE English and Maths grade C / 4

International Students:

  • 112 UCAS tariff points from four A-levels or equivalent qualifications

  • GCSE English and Maths grade C / 4.

International qualifications

We accept qualifications from all over the world – check yours here: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/international/study-and-courses/your-application/entry-requirements-by-country

Part Time Work Details

20 hours work permit for international students

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Core modules

  • Ethics in the 21st Century

  • Knowing the Self: From Wonder to Wisdom

  • Literary Pasts, Presents, and Futures

  • Ways of Reading

  • Transformation: Agency and Self

Optional modules typically include - choose one

  • Global Narratives in English

  • Ways of Knowing: Virtues and Vices

2 Year 2

Core modules

  • World Philosophy

  • Rebel Literatures

  • Transformation: Agency and World

Optional pathways

  • Pathway 1: Extended work-like experience

  • Pathway 2: An international exchange

  • Pathway 3: Taught modules

Interdisciplinary optional modules typically include:

  • Intercultural Communication at Work

  • People and Planet: pasts, presents, and futures

  • Language, Inequality, and Social Justice

Philosophy optional modules typically include:

  • How to Win Every Argument

  • Ethics, Equality and Human Rights

  • Happiness and Mental Health: Philosophy, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

English optional modules typically include:

  • Imagining the Sustainable World

  • Women's Writing and the Literary Marketplace

  • Shakespeare and Co.

  • Black Writing in Britain

  • Contemporary Working-Class Writing

3 Year 3

Core module

  • Major project

  • English Major Project

  • Philosophy Major Project

  • Humanities Research Project

  • Transformation: Agency and Self

Interdisciplinary optional modules typically include:

  • Artificial Intelligence: Human Factors

  • Humanities in Action

Philosophy optional modules typically include:

  • Philosophy, Film, and Media

  • Being Good: The Foundations of Morality

  • Language, Communication, and Power

English optional modules typically include:

  • Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory

  • Writing Justice: Changing Worlds

  • Poetry and the Planet

  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries

  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose: Nation, Self, Other

  • Nuclear Literature: Culture in the Atomic Age

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.5
  • TOEFL74
  • PTE59

Accepted qualifications:

  • IELTS Academic

  • TOEFL iBT, including ‘Home Edition' - We accept the online test as well

  • IGCSE

  • Cambridge

  • Oxford

  • Pearson Test of English

  • International/European Baccalaureate

  • A/O level

  • Trinity College ISE

  • KITE - We accept the online test as well

  • Various country qualifications

6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component

This requirement is for Year One entry only. If you're starting in Year Two or final year you'll need a higher grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component

Ready to get started?

For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

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