English BA

at King's College London

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 1

Required modules

You are required to take the following modules:
 

• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature (15 credits)

• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)

• Introduction to American Literature (15 credits)

• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)

• Reading Poetry (15 credits)

• Writing London (15 credits)

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 2

Required modules

The department operates a banding system in the second year, to broaden horizons and ensure a balanced programme.
 

• Band 1: Literature up to 1800

• Band 2: Literature 1800 - present

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 3

Optional modules

You are required to choose either eight 15-credit modules or six 15-credit modules plus a dissertation from a wide range of optional English modules which may typically include:
 

• Activist Texts: Literature and Politics, 1910-1938 (15 credits)

• Advanced Fiction Workshop

• Afro-Gothic Literature

• Austen in Context (15 credits)

• Beowulf (15 credits)

• Black and Asian Writing in Britain

• Chaucer’s Books (15 credits)

• Coming of Age in America

• Critically Queer (15 credits)

• Figurations of Conspiracy (15 credits)

• Study and Struggle: global revolutionary thought and practice

• Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)

• James Joyce and Ulysses (15 credits)

• Literature and Media (15 credits)

• The Life of the Sonnet (15 credits)

• Multi-Ethnic American Modernisms (15 credits)

• Performance Philosophy (15 credits)

• Raw Victorians: Race, Environment and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Shakespeare’s London (15 credits)

• Science, Nature and Performance (15 credits)

• Testimony: The Holocaust and Rwanda (15 credits)

• Vernacular Theory (15 credits)

• Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Reading (15 credits)

Required subjects: English Literature or English Language and Literature

A-Levels

Required grades:

AAA

Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A levels.

Must include grade A in English Literature or English Language and Literature.

Notes: If you are taking linear A-levels in England, you will be required to pass the practical endorsement in all Science subjects. This is with the exception of private candidates who are unable to take the practical component.

We do not consider the EPQ at any point of the assessment process.

Contextual A-Level information

ABB

Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King’s as one of your A levels.

Must include grade A in English Literature or English Language and Literature.

Notes: If you are taking linear A-levels in England, you will be required to pass the practical endorsement in all Science subjects. This is with the exception of private candidates who are unable to take the practical component.

We do not consider the EPQ at any point of the assessment process.

International Baccalaureate

35 points including 666 at Higher Level.

Must include grade 6 in Higher Level English Literature or English Language and Literature.

Notes: The total point score of 35 includes TOK/EE.

Contextual International Baccalaureate information

34 points overall and 655 at Higher Level.

Must include grade 6 in Higher Level English Literature or English Language and Literature.

Notes: The total point score of 34 includes TOK/EE.

Full time tuition fees UK:
The UK tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is currently £9,250 per year. This is based on the UK Government’s cap.

Full time tuition fees International:
The International tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is £21,840 per year.

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