English Literature BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Key Information
Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
36 months
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
English Literature BA (Hons)
Study an exciting range of literature in English, from writers across the globe and on subjects including the novel, Victorian and Romantic literature and Shakespeare and Marlowe. Learn how texts work, and debate literature’s role in society both now and throughout history.
You’ll receive excellent teaching from internationally-renowned academics and will be taught to articulate your ideas with confidence while writing with fluency and flair.
By studying English Literature at DMU you’ll join a lively and welcoming academic community – a group of people who are friendly, supportive and passionate about literature.
We’ll encourage you to get involved in our student-led English society, go on UK theatre trips or travel abroad with DMU Global, our international experience program.
We’re proud that our English Literature graduates enter a wide range of professions including media, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
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Curriculum
First year
- Approaches to Reading and Writing
- Poetry and Society
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
Optional modules
- Introduction to the Novel
- Exploring Creative Writing
- Evolving Language: An Introduction to Histories of Language
Second year
- Exploration and Innovation: 14th Century to 18th Century Literature
Optional modules
- Text Technologies
- Ways of Reading
- Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics
- Sex and Death in Romantic Writings, 1780-1830
- Victorian Literature
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Millennial World Fiction
- Writing Place
- English Language in UK Schools
- Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages
Third year
- English Literature Dissertation
Optional modules
- English in the Workplace
- medieval.com
- Modernism and Modernity
- Textual Studies Using Computers
- Radical and Contemporary Adaptations
- Revolutionary Men, Unruly Women: Politics and Gender at the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1900
- Writing Adaptations: Theory & Practice
- Watching Early Modern Drama: Spectatorship and Fandom
- The 21st Century Global Franchise: Adapting the Wizarding World
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Professional Writing Skills
- Perception, Persuasion, Power: Communication and Control
- Powerful Language: Introduction to Rhetoric
Program Outcome
Graduates also have the opportunity to undertake further studies such as the English MA at DMU.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Our graduates go on to work in careers in a variety of areas such as archival work, the media, the civil service, marketing, journalism, the arts, library services, teaching English as a foreign language and public relations. Graduates have earned roles such as Associate Producer at the BBC, Picture Book Editor at Pan Macmillan and a Senior Press Officer in the Children's Department at Penguin Random House.