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 be able to analyze works in their historical and genre contexts, explore 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.

You will acquire essential academic and transferable skills such as critical thinking and evaluation, analysis, research, and high-level communication skills through diverse methods of assessment, 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 videos, 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.

Our specialism in social and cultural history makes us different from History courses elsewhere. Here at BGU, you are encouraged to study the past with empathy and see the past from other, sometimes challenging, perspectives.

Here at BGU in Lincoln, you won’t just study history through documents; you’ll learn through placements and site visits to archives and museums. Throughout the course, you will explore various fascinating topics spanning several historical eras in different local, national, and global contexts. You’ll analyze data, images, and texts, construct arguments and engage in original historical research. You will also look at how history is encountered within the community and take a work-based placement at a school, archive, museum, or other site that fits your career goals and direction.

This undergraduate degree will help build your skills as a historian, from introductory subjects in your first year to an independent, research-based dissertation in your final year. As well as learning about people in the past, you will investigate how people today engage with history and consider how the past can be brought alive.

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

• A minimum IELTS score of level 6 with a minimum of 5.5 across all sections.