Course Overview

Studying English at BGU provides an exciting and wide-ranging engagement with the power of human creativity and the rich heritage of literary expression. In this course, you will look at great works of literature from Ovid to Ali Smith and from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, enriching your learning with explorations into creative and environmental writing, detective fiction, world literature, drama, children’s literature, film, Victorian, Romantic, and contemporary literature.

You will study an exciting range of writers, texts, and topics. You will learn historical and genre contexts, explore be able to analyze works in their literary concepts and themes (identity, memory, gender and adolescence), make intertextual and creative connections (myth, adaptation, film, creative writing), and develop your critical independence and career prospects with comprehensive research and work-based projects (English@Work, research project). During your studies, you will follow your interests through an assessment strategy that facilitates your choice of focal points and textual examples for assessment tasks.

Through diverse assessment methods, you will acquire essential academic and transferable skills such as critical thinking and evaluation, analysis, research, and high-level communication skills, which blend established crucial communication skills with up-to-date digital literacies and platforms. You will develop expressive and creative skills fit for the 21st century; combining written essays and oral presentations with e-portfolios, multimodal video, posters, hypertext, digital publication, and independent research projects. You will benefit from an innovative and flexible approach to teaching and learning that promotes student participation and engagement. With the close academic support you will receive here at BGU, you will have the opportunities and guidance to fulfill your full potential.

As an English student at BGU, your engagement with literature won’t stop at the seminar door. The English team are all research-active lecturers passionate about studying literature and its positive impact on the individual and broader society. We actively support a range of organized events and visits to enable more involvement in literary culture, including visiting speakers, a research seminar series, subsidized film and theatre trips, workshops and celebrations, poetry readings, and academic awards.

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General Eligibility

You will generally need 96-112 UCAS tariff points (from a maximum of four Advanced Level qualifications). We welcome a range of capabilities that meet this requirement, such as A/AS Levels, BTEC, Access Courses, International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge Pre-U, Extended Project, etc.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• N/A