Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - English Literature
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,750 GBP/year
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
You will look at important societal and cultural trends and moments while you study English literature at Oxford Brookes. You will discover the various topics that works of literature investigate. For instance:
- inequalities in ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class
- how values, ethics and ideologies can change
- relationships between identities, communities and environments
- how society can face its past, and its future
You will gain skills and qualities as you move through your study that will help you get ready for the future. Your ability to communicate, think critically, and come up with solutions to problems will all improve. You'll improve your understanding of other people and cultures.
Additionally, you'll have the chance to work on an entrepreneurial project, an internship, or both.
Our highly qualified faculty members have a strong record of publication and active research. Because of these cutting-edge insights, your education is enhanced.
You’ll graduate able to analyse issues, express your ideas, inform and influence others, and respond to challenges – critical skills for the 21st century workplace.
Our graduates go on to work in diverse areas like
- NGOs and charities
- Research
- Publishing
- Public relations
- Sustainable start-ups
- Media and journalism
Program structure
Year 1
- Reading for Meaning
- The Culture of Criticism
- Reading Wonderland: The Literature of Oxford
- Shakespeare Now
- World Literatures
- Theory, Writing and Power
Optional Modules
- Understanding Digital Cultures
- Creative Writing 1: Voice and Craft in Poetry and Prose
- Theatre Styles and Contexts
Year 2
Choose One Module (Literature in Time and Space)
- Literature in Time and Space: American Vistas: The Literature and Culture of the USA
- Literature in Time and Space: The Culture of Modernity
- Literature in Time and Space: Renaissance Tragedy and Comedy
Choose One Module (Literature, Self and Society)
- Literature, Self and Society: Landscapes and Mindscapes
- Literature, Self and Society: Crime, Culture and Transgression
- Literature, Self and Society: British Theatre, 1950 - Present
Optional Modules
- Special Topics (Genres): Robots, Cyborgs and Digital Worlds
- Special Topics (Genres): American Poetry: Origins and Legacies
- Special Topics (Periods): Guilty Pleasures: Victorian Sensation
- Special Topics (Periods): The Shock of the New: Avant-Gardes and Experiments in 20th Century Literature, Theatre and Cinema
- Special Topics (Periods): Renaissance Material Culture
- Special Topics (Stylistics): Advanced Stylistics
- Special Topics (Themes): Angry Writing: Protest Literature
- Special Topics (Themes): Human Animal
- Modern British Theatre in Performance
- Creative Writing 2: Exploring Genre, Form and Style
- Independent Project
- Professional Practice
Year 3
- English Literature Dissertation
Choose One or More Optional Modules From Advanced Options
- Poverty and the Novel
- The Pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian Literary Imagination
- Playing House: Early Modern Domestic Spaces
- Can Literature Help Save the World?
- Windrush Stories
- Video Games, Digital Texts and Interactive Narratives
- Urban Jungle: the American City in Modern and Postmodern Literature and Culture
- Utopias
- Witchcraft and Magic in Literature
- The Theatrical City: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- African American Avant-Gardes
Optional Modules
- Poverty and the Novel
- The Pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian Literary Imagination
- Playing House: Early Modern Domestic Spaces
- Can Literature Help Save the World?
- Windrush Stories
- Video Games, Digital Texts and Interactive Narratives
- Urban Jungle: the American City in Modern and Postmodern Literature and Culture
- Utopias
- Witchcraft and Magic in Literature
- The Theatrical City: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- African American Avant-Gardes
- Contemporary Literature
- Creative Writing 3: Towards Professionalism and Publication
- Advanced Independent Project
Price
- Tuition Fee - 16,750 GBP per year
Requirements for applicants
General Entry Requirements
- Acceptable passes in five subjects (exceptionally four subjects) at GCSE or GCE including:
- one 12-unit vocational A-level, or
- two A-levels or two 6-unit vocational A-levels, or
- one A-level or 6-unit vocational A-level plus two AS-levels, or
- two 3-unit vocational A-levels
- A National Certificate or Diploma at a good standard.
- The International Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 24 points) or the European Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 60%).
- Five subjects in SCE with two at Higher level or one at Advanced Higher level.
- Three subjects in Scottish Highers or two at Advanced Higher level.
- Any other qualifications considered by the Academic Board to be of equivalent standard.
- A recognised access course.
Specific entry requirements
- IELTS: 6.5 overall with 6.0 in reading and writing, 5.5 in listening and speaking
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
