English Literature (Joint Honours) 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 (Joint Honours)
On this course, you will discover how texts work and debate literature’s role in society – both now and throughout history - while acquiring the skills to articulate your ideas with confidence and write with fluency and flair.
You will receive excellent teaching from internationally renowned academics who are supportive and passionate about literature and produce world-leading research in areas ranging from medieval to contemporary literature, language, creative writing and digital humanities. You will also have opportunities to attend talks by visiting writers and internationally-acclaimed guest speakers such as Kate Forsyth, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Study English Literature at DMU and join a lively and welcoming community. Get involved in the student-led English society, go on theatre trips in the UK or travel abroad with DMU Global as part of your course. Our graduates go into a wide range of professions including media, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
At DMU, you can study English Literature and Drama, Film Studies or Journalism as a joint honours course. You will choose 50 per cent of your options from English Literature and 50 per cent from Drama, Film Studies or Journalism.
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Curriculum
First year
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
Optional modules:
- Introduction to the Novel
- Poetry and Society
- Exploring Creative Writing
- Evolving Language: An Introduction to Histories of Language
Second year
- Exploration and Innovation: 14th to 18th Century Literature
Optional modules:
- Text Technologies
- Ways of Reading
- Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics
- Sex and Death in Romantic Writing, 1780-1830
- Victorian Literature
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Millennial World Fiction
- Writing Place
- English Language in UK Schools
- Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Third year
Optional modules:
- English Literature Dissertation
- 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
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Career Opportunities
English Literature graduates develop strong communication and reasoning skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a group. 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.