BA (Hons) English

Our BA English degree gives you the opportunity to develop the critical and verbal skills needed for confident, effective reading of literary texts and criticism.

Bold, flexible, and richly diverse, the BA in English offers you a world of literature and language. You will be taken on a thrilling intellectual and imaginative journey from the Caribbean, New York, and Victorian London, to the American South via 1980s Northern Ireland, South Korea, Zimbabwe, Belarus, India, and Algeria. Along the way, we encourage you to ask big, complex, and often challenging questions about how to read literature in all its cultural, artistic, and political contexts ranging from the analysis of bear-baiting in Early Modern drama, the role of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th century novel to the impact of the #metoo and Black Lives Matter movements on 21st-century literature, film, and culture.
You will travel across histories, cultures, and languages and be encouraged to engage in a huge variety of debates around, for example, gender and sexual identity, the Transatlantic slave trade, climate change, feminism, Caribbean writing, indigenous literature and philosophical ideas about what it means to be human across time.

Length
3 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time

A-level: CCC

BTEC: DMM

International Baccalaureate: 27 points overall with three HL subjects at 555

UAL Extended Diploma: Merit overall

Access: Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 24 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject-specific modules

Scottish qualifications: CCCCD (Higher) or DDD (Advanced Higher)

European Baccalaureate: 65%

Irish Leaving Certificate: H3 H3 H3 H3