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BA (Hons) English Literature

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

If you want a future with fewer limits, this is the degree for you. When you study English Literature at Portsmouth, you'll also explore history and politics, society and culture, human relationships and identities, and how we choose to live. And you’re doing it in a city steeped in lively literature, from Charles Dickens to Neil Gaiman.

You’ll explore complex, challenging issues – from masculinity to the Holocaust. You’ll learn the skills to critically analyse the purpose, truth and impact of any written text. You’ll also develop the skills to produce your own writing and presentations, so you can communicate original ideas in ways that engage and influence readers.

The combination of creative thinking and rigorous analysis you develop will make you a compelling candidate for all kinds of jobs – from marketing to museums, and journalism to publishing.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent, to include a relevant subject .

  • International Baccalaureate – 25-26

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

Optional modules

  • Study Abroad Year

  • Work Placement Year

2 Year 1

Core Modules:

  • Body Politics

  • Global Identities

  • Popular Culture

  • The Short Story: Murder, Madness and Experimentation

  • Unpacking Texts: Introducing Critical Theory

3 Year 2

Core Modules:

  • Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim

  • Research in Practice

Optional Modules:

  • Bloody Shakespeare: The Politics And Poetics Of Violence

  • Crime Writing

  • Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination

  • Empire And Its Afterlives In Britain, Europe, And Africa

  • Engaged Citizenship In Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Global Security

  • Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

  • Marketing and Communication

  • Modern Foreign Language (Institute-Wide Language Programme)

  • Modernity and Globalisation

  • Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis, and the Everyday

  • News, Discourse and Media

  • Principles of Economic Crime Investigation

  • Professional Experience

  • Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature

  • Space, Place and Being

  • Transitional Justice and Human Rights

  • Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response

  • Women's Writing in the Americas

4 Year 3

Core Modules:

  • Dissertation / Major Project (English Literature)

  • Specialist Option: Empires and Identities

  • Specialist Option: Societies in Revolution

Optional Modules:

  • Consuming Fictions: Food and Appetite in Victorian Culture

  • Holocaust Literatures

  • Magical Realism

  • Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

  • Professional Experience

  • Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction

  • US Masculinities

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0(with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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