English Literature - BA (Hons)

at University of Kent

Program structure

Stage 1

Compulsory modules currently include

• ENGL3360 - Changing Literatures: From Chaucer to the Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL3370 - Thinking Through Theory (30 credits)

Optional modules may include

• ENGL3410 - Other Worlds: Dystopias and Futures (15 credits)

• ENGL3420 - American Power, American Protest (15 credits)

• ENGL3430 - Romantic Ecologies & the Modern Invention of Nature (15 credits)

• ENGL3450 - Right/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movements, Political Action (15 credits)

Stage 2

Optional modules may include

• ENGL6720 - Reading Victorian Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6770 - The Contemporary (30 credits)

• ENGL6810 - Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6890 - Modernism (30 credits)

• ENGL6940 - Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (30 credits)

• ENGL6950 - Empire, New Nations and Migration (30 credits)

• ENGL6970 - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL7210 - American Modernities: US Literature in the 20th Century (30 credits)

• ENGL7310 - Interactive and Immersive Fictions (30 credits)

• ENGL7320 - Perceptions, Pathologies, Disorders: Reading and Writing Mental Health (30 credits)

Stage 3

Optional modules may include

• ENGL5800 - Charles Dickens and Victorian England (30 credits)

• ENGL5830 - Postcolonial Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL6001 - The Project (English) (30 credits)

• ENGL6002 - LGBTQ Narratives: Queer Writing from Britain and Ireland (30 credits)

• ENGL6003 - #ShakeRace: Shakespeare and Racial Politics (30 credits)

• ENGL6040 - The Unknown: Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Autofiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6330 - Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature (30 credits)

• ENGL6550 - Places, Journeys, Borders (30 credits)

• ENGL6580 - American Crime Fiction (30 credits)

• ENGL6760 - Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives (30 credits)

• ENGL7080 - Virginia Woolf (30 credits)

• ENGL7090 - Animals, Humans, Writing (30 credits)

• ENGL7130 - The New Woman: 1880-1920 (30 credits)

• ENGL7250 - A Woman's Tale: Writing Female Identity and Experience in Medieval Europe (30 credits)

• ENGL7290 - Poetry Beyond Text: Image, Installation, Performance (30 credits)

 Access to HE Diploma

The University welcomes applications from Access to Higher Education Diploma candidates for consideration. A typical offer may require you to obtain a proportion of Level 3 credits in relevant subjects at merit grade or above.

 BTEC Nationals

The University will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF; OCR) on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us for further advice on your individual circumstances. A typical offer would be DMM plus A-level English Literature or English Language & Literature at B.

 International Baccalaureate

30 points overall or 15 points at HL, including HL English A1/A2/B at 5/6/6 OR English Literature A/English Language and Literature A (or Literature A/Language and Literature A of another country) at HL 5 or SL 6

 International Foundation Programme

Pass all components of the University of Kent International Foundation Programme with a 60% overall average including 60% in the Literature module.

 T level

The University will consider applicants holding T level qualifications in subjects closely aligned to the course.

• Home full-time£9250

• EU full-time£13000

• International full-time£17400

Graduate destinations

Our graduates have gone on to work in areas including:

• journalism

• broadcasting

• publishing and writing

• teaching

• banking

• marketing

• project management.