BA (Hons) English - Full time
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
BA (Hons) English - Full time
It develops your core skills in analytical and imaginative reading and writing and places a strong emphasis on social and cultural diversity. The flexible programme allows you to choose topics related to American literature and culture, comparisons of literature across different cultures and art forms (also known as Comparative Literature), and study all aspects of language use in linguistics modules. Throughout, your literary studies will be complemented by a series of lectures and activity-based seminars which will help you develop and consolidate your practical academic skills and research techniques. ; ;
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
In your first year, you will take the following compulsory modules.
Year 1 compulsory modules
- Explorations in Literature
- Approaches to Text
- Introduction to Poetry
- The Short Story
You will also choose two of the following option modules:
Year 1 option modules
- Introduction to US Literature and Culture: America and its Discontents
- Introduction to Comparative Literature
- Understanding Language in Use
Year 2
In your second year, you will study the following compulsory module
Year 2 compulsory modules
Literature and Power in the Victorian Period
You will also choose three modules (totalling 90 credits) from a range characterised by wide literary, historical, and contextual scope, of which at least one must encompass pre-1800 literature.
Modules may vary from year to year, but recent modules have included the following.
Year 2 option modules
- Drama and Transgression: From Prometheus to Faust
- Inventing the Nation: American Literature in the mid-19th Century
- Literary London, 1800 to 1900
- Literature of the Later Middle Ages: Society and the Individual
- Moderns
- Old English
- Post-Victorian English Literature
- 18th-Century Literature
- Sensibility and Romanticism: Revolutions in Writing and Society
- Shakespeare
- Sociolinguistics: Language use, Variation, and Identity
- Contemporary Arab Migrant Writing
- Aspects of the Novel
- Work Placement (English)
- Discourse and Society
- (Re)writing America: from the nineteenth century to the present day 30 credits
- Language Learning
- Language Teaching
Year 3
Modules may vary from year to year, but recent examples have included:
Year 3 option modules
- Caribbean Women Writers
- Creating the Text
- Decadence
- The Emergence of Modern America: American Literature 1890–1940
- Approaches to Language and the Media
- Modern American Fiction
- Modern Poetry
- Modernism & Drama (1880-1930)
- The Art of the Novel
- Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies and Theories
- Postcolonial Literatures in English
- Studies in Literature and Film
- Renaissance Worlds
- Narratives of the Great War (1923-1933)
- Work Placement (English)
- Professional Communication
- Word Power: How words are born, live, and die
- Language and Gender
Program Outcome
This degree ;opens up a wide range of careers by developing your critical and analytical skills, proficiency in assessing evidence, the clear expression of ideas, and the ability to bring together insights from a range of subjects – all of which are attractive to a variety of employers. You will learn to solve problems, to think critically and creatively, and to communicate with clarity.
You can also choose to take a work placement module as one of your option modules in your second or third year. This module allows you to undertake a work placement which will benefit your studies, your skillset and your CV.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Our graduates have a good employment record: professions include publishing, journalism, PR, teaching, advertising, civil service, business and industry, European Union private sector management and personnel work, and the media.
Program delivery
3 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time
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