English Literature with French, Mandarin or Spanish 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 with French, Mandarin or Spanish BA (Hons)
Study an exciting range of English literature from writers across the globe and from different eras or movements, such as Victorian literature and Romanticism, as well as classic and renowned authors including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Learn how texts work, and debate literature’s role in society both now and throughout the course of history. You’ll be taught by internationally renowned academics and experts who will encourage and support you to articulate your ideas with confidence while writing with fluency and flair. We produce world-leading research in areas ranging from medieval to contemporary literature, language, creative writing and digital humanities.
Our modern languages pathway is the opportunity for you to learn either Chinese Mandarin, French or Spanish alongside your studies in English literature. As part of this, you will undertake a beginner or post-GCSE module in your chosen language, which will equate to two hours of language classes and one hour of cultural studies per week. Forming part of this is the cultural awareness class, which introduces you to the history, culture, institutions, politics and literature of your chosen language. In your final year you’ll be able to tailor your learning with the opportunity to study for specific purposes, for example languages for business, which can offer you insight and experience of you chosen future career path.
By choosing to study English literature with a modern language at DMU, you’ll join a lively and welcoming academic community. Enjoy getting involved in the student-led English society and going on theatre trips across the UK as part of your course. Our graduates from this course progress into a wide range of professions including media, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
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Curriculum
First year
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
- Poetry and Society
Optional modules:
- Introduction to the Novel
- Approaches to Reading and Writing
- Exploring Creative Writing
- Evolving Language: An Introduction to Histories of Language
- And 30 credits of Language modules
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
- 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 our English MA program.
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Career Opportunities
Our graduates are taught to acquire highly developed communication and reasoning skills and hone their ability to work independently and as part of a group.
Many of 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.