English BA (Hons) at University of Northampton

This course offers a thorough exploration of English literature, with themed strands and in-depth module topics that let you plot your own pathway. Taught by research-active tutors, you'll develop your love of literature alongside vital career skills.

Faculty: Faculty of Education, Arts, Science and Technology  |  Department: Humanities  |  Duration: Full Time: 3 years; Full Time Foundation: 4 years; Part Time: 4 - 6 years  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Northampton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

All our BA English modules are rooted in staff expertise and a shared passion for literature. In offering modules focusing on ecology and the environment, children’s and young-adult writing, contemporary revisioning of the works of Shakespeare, American literature and culture, gothic worlds, and digital culture, the course offers every student a breadth of topics that will stimulate your imagination and hone your critical thinking. Modules include Reading and Writing Our World, Identity under Construction, Contemporary Shakespeares, Digital Culture and Print Media, Decolonising the Bookshelf, Writing the Wild, American Dreams, American Nightmares: Race, Class and Gender, Literature & the Real World: Critical Concepts, Victorian Visions, Literary Extremes and the American Mainstream, From Fairy Tale to Fantasy: Children's and Young Adult Literature, Centre & Margins: Postmodernity & After.

Career pathways

English BA students who have studied with us have gone on to a variety of careers, including: teaching adult education journalism theatre management marketing editorial work with major publishers librarianship arts administration museum and curatorial work librarianship bookselling social work training management trainee schemes with large companies local government

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