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BA (Hons) Education and English Literature

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Youll graduate with a wide range of skills including oral and written communication, presentation, and advanced critical competencies. You will be able to communicate complex ideas effectively to different kinds of audiences, producing persuasive arguments informed by careful research. Youll be ready to take up a teaching career, a career in politics, the civil service, journalism, and business. If you are thinking of traveling the world after graduation or teaching abroad, Keeles Language Centre offers a variety of language courses.

General Eligibility

A LEVEL REQUIREMENTS

  • A Level requirement BBC

GCSE REQUIREMENTS

  • English at C (or 4)

BTEC

  • BTEC requirements DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Understanding Learning

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Reading Literature

  • Texts and Contexts

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Childhood, Policy and Education

  • Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling

  • Social inequalities in the contemporary world

  • Too Poor to Learn: Poverty, Education and Social Policy

  • Modern Democracies

  • Classical Sociology

  • Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature

  • Poetry through practice

  • Medieval Europe and Its World

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Fiction Through Practice

  • Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry

  • Literature as History: Writing the Americas

  • Film and Culture

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Education Matters: Contemporary Issues and Debates in Education

  • Research Strategies and Methods in Education

  • Literature and Social Change

  • Methods and Approaches to Literature

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Play, Power and Pedagogy

  • British Government and Politics

  • Globalisation and its Discontents

  • Special Education: introduction to theory and practice

  • COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

  • Education placement

  • Romanticisms

  • Writing Genre and Mode

  • The Renaissance: Shakespeare and Beyond

  • Transatlantic Modernisms

  • Work Placement for Humanities Students

  • Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose

  • Contemporary World Literature

  • Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age

  • 21st-Century Apocalypses

3 Year 3

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Inclusive Education

  • Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood

  • Moving People: Migration, emotion, identity

  • Independent Research Project - ISP

  • Race, Politics and Education

  • Education, Work and Identity

  • Higher Education: policy and the student experience

  • Consuming Nature

  • Words and Pictures: the Contemporary American Graphic Novel

  • High Culture: Drink, Drugs, and the American Dream

  • Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

  • Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation

  • Dissertation in English - ISP

  • Creative Writing: Portfolio - ISP

  • Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students

  • Postcolonial and World Literature in English

  • The Alcohol Question

  • Modernist Manifestos and Magazines

  • Violence and death in Shakespeare's theatre

  • Hitchcock's Queer Cinema

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component or equivalent.

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