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A degree in English Language and Literature gives you a range of valuable skills and attributes. 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.
A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, 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 (Language, Literature, or Language and Literature) and grade A in the EPQ.
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Key Concepts of English Language Study: One
Key Concepts of English Language Study: Two
Foundations of English Studies
Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
Drama: Reading and Interpretation
Race, Writing and Decolonization
Power of Language
Language in Society
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
Shakespeare and Global Cinema
African American Narrative: Eight Major Works
American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present
Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Politics of Language
Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical
Imagining Posthuman Futures
Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from 'Don Quixote' to 'House of Leaves'
Millennial Fictions
Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane
Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir
Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care
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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