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BA (Hons) English Literature

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

As an English Literature student at Keele, you will immerse yourself in literature from Shakespeare to the contemporary and examine literature in English from across the world, including Britain, North America and Africa, taking a truly global perspective.

Taught by expert lecturers, you will explore and interpret literary texts that will challenge your views, advance your tastes, prompt your creativity, and give you the opportunity to become a versatile graduate. Through a range of activities and assessments, our diverse course will equip you with a vast array of attributes that employers are looking for, including problem solving, creativity, emotional intelligence, and digital literacy. You will pursue your passions, grow in confidence, and gain a unique set of transferable skills that will be invaluable for your future career in a variety of sectors.

We are committed to enabling you to tailor your degree. Alongside the compulsory English Literature modules, you are given the flexibility to choose optional modules which not only align with your literary interests, but also your career aspirations. We enable you to embed an interdisciplinary approach to your studies, by offering you the opportunity to explore modules outside of the English Literature curriculum, including those from areas such as Creative Writing, Film, History, Media, Education and Modern Languages.

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

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

  • Reading Literature

  • Texts and Contexts

  • Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry

  • Literature as History: Writing the Americas

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Childhood, Policy and Education

  • Poetry through practice

  • English for Academic Purposes 4 (EAP 4)

  • Reading Film and Media

  • History, Media, Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture

  • The British and Global Economy

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Fiction Through Practice

  • The Early Modern World, 1490-1700

  • Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures

  • Applied Psychology

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Literature and Social Change

  • Methods and Approaches to Literature

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • 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

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Dissertation in English - ISP

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • 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

  • 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.

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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