BA (Hons) English Literature at University Centre Peterborough

An English Literature degree that develops literary criticism skills such as genre and textual analysis alongside writing for audiences and modern publishing. Second-year modules draw on and challenge the literary canon, and final-year students complete a 120-hour work placement with an arts or media organisation. Validated by The Open University (UCAS code Q300).

Faculty: English Literature  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Writing Matters, Introduction to Creative Writing, Tragedy, Contexts and Canons (Murakami to Blake; Equiano to Chaucer), Approaching Criticism, Comedy, 20th Century Practitioners. Year 2: Renaissance to Romantics, Writing WW1, The Image, Placing the Postcolonial, Shakespeare Unstuck, Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, Reading the Gothic, and employability. Year 3: Undergraduate Major Project, The Literature of the 1950s, Modernism and the City, Adaptations, Working in English Film and Media, Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature.

Career pathways

Graduates go into teaching, copywriting, editing and proofreading, librarianship, arts administration, journalism and publishing, and web content management, or postgraduate study.

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