English Literature (Hons) Loughborough University

Overview

This English Literature (Hons)  degree offered by Loughborough University  offers the most comprehensive survey of literary-historical development while retaining a high level of optional choice in second and third year.

Key Facts

• You’ll develop key skills, using different theoretical approaches to interpret texts across a number of genres, and will be able to tailor our English Literature degree to suit your interests.
• You will be introduced to important concepts and periods, through a range of carefully designed core modules introducing the fundamentals of poetic language and form, the study of language, literary theory, narrative forms and fictions, and the major periods of literary history. In addition, optional modules such as ‘Introduction to Film’ and ‘How to Do Things with Digital Texts’ examine the significance of how literature can be studied in the digital age.
• Our English Literature degree is designed to introduce you to contemporary debates surrounding classic authors but also to encourage you to new authors whose social, political, and literary significance has only recently been acknowledged.

Why you should study this course

Our BA English Literature degree offers our most comprehensive survey of literary-historical development while retaining a high level of optional choice in second and third year.

• You will be taught by knowledgeable world-leading researchers with expertise in the latest thinking in areas such as the staging of Shakespeare, the adaptation of literature into film, Romanticism, contemporary writing, American culture, modern poetry, and the relationship between language and social identity
• A high level of optional choice in the second and final years means that you will be able to tailor your study to your own literary interests
• You will be encouraged to study classic literature in new and different ways and also explore lesser known authors and genres
• You will have the opportunity to specialise in a literary topic for your final dissertation