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BA (Hons) English

University of Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The BA (Hons) English enables you to combine various literary studies with innovative, creative writing practice and cutting-edge research in linguistics. On the course, you will engage with contemporary subjects in literature, including queer approaches to poetry, gothic horror in young adult fiction, and the apocalyptic imagination in twenty-first-century writing. You will have the opportunity to progress on the distinct Literature and Creative Writing and Literature and Linguistics pathways or to select options from both routes on our flexible English degree program.

General Eligibility

112 UCAS tariff points (or above), BBC (A-Level), and DMM (BTEC). Applicants are expected to hold A-Level English at grade C or above. All applicants are required to have GCSE English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

  • Introduction to Linguistics

  • Literary Criticism: Theory into Practice

  • Staging Scandal: Classical to Contemporary Drama

  • Starting Points in Creative Writing

  • Poetry Matters

  • Research Skills

2 Year 2

  • Critical Theory

  • Research Methods

  • Textual Afterlives: Adapting Literature and Film

  • Shakespeare’s Sceptred Isle: Power and Performance

  • The Short Story (Literature and Creative Writing pathway)

  • Structures of Spoken English (Literature and Linguistics pathway)

  • Language Development and Disorders (Literature and Linguistics pathway)

  • Who Do you Think You Are? Life Writing and Memoir (Literature and Creative Writing pathway)

  • Robots and Rebels: Writing Genre Fiction

3 Year 3

  • After the Apocalypse: Writing the Contemporary

  • Stranger Things: Young Adult Fiction

  • Professional Practice (Educational/Professional Writing)

  • Independent Project

  • Writing for Performance: Theatre, Film, Television (Literature and Creative Writing pathway)

  • Independent Project (Literature and Creative Writing pathway)

  • Researching Spoken Language (Literature and Linguistics pathway)

  • Dialects in Literature and Film (Literature and Linguistics pathway)

  • Independent Project (Literature and Linguistics pathway)

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69
IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language.

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