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Our graduates have gone on to find success in areas such as the creative industries, marketing, education, journalism, law, publishing, media, business charity work, civil service, management consultancy and leadership.
Many have also progressed to postgraduate study.
On this course, you’ll develop your abilities as an excellent communicator who can present well-reasoned arguments and conclusions. Learning in groups with others and reading about human problems and social situations will develop your interpersonal skills and understanding of ethical and cultural complexities.
You’ll have strong organisational and time management skills and you’ll be able to conduct research, interpret complex information, think critically and express yourself clearly. Employers are always looking out for people with these critical skills.
A-level: AAB including A in English (Literature or Language and Literature)
Other course specific tests:
Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English (Literature, or Language and Literature) and grade A in the EPQ.
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Compulsory modules
Foundations of English Studies
Race, Writing and Decolonization
Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Key Concepts of English Language Study: One
Key Concepts of English Language Study: Two
Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
Drama: Reading and Interpretation
Medieval Literature
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing
Literature of the Romantic Period
Renaissance Literature
Remixing the Renaissance
Style and Authorship
Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices
Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story
Compulsory modules:
Final Year Project
Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below):
Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind
Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety
Milton
Contemporary South African Writing
Forensic Approaches to Language
Writing America
Transformations
Children, Talk and Learning
Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.
TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.
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