BA English
About this course
BA (Hons) in English, covering literature, critical theory, and creative writing. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. An optional English Placement provides paid work experience in the creative and cultural industries. The programme is delivered part-time over six years.
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Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 20%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 20%
- Access course: 5%
- A degree: 45%
- Other HE qualification: 20%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- University English Literature: An Introduction
- Theory and Other Monsters
- Writing Matters
- Professional and Creative Writing: An Introduction
- Irish Literature and Society: An Introduction
- Pandemic Prose in the Viral Village
- Detective Fiction
- Early Modern English Culture 1509-1659: Poetry, Prose, Drama
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Tales of the Familiar and the Exotic: The Beginnings of Modern Fiction in English
- Rhymes Of Passion: A Brief History Of Love Poetry
- Modern Dramand Its Influences
- Sex and the City of God: religion and sexuality in American literature
- Writing and Editing
- Angels, Madwomen and Whores
- Writing the North: Ulster Literature
- Contemporary World Fiction in English
- How It Is: Samuel Beckett Studies
- Adaptation and Historical Fiction
- Gothic and Romantic Writing
- Writing and Publishing
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Twentieth-Century Literature
- English Placement
- How to be Modern: Writing from the Jazz Age, 1910-1930
- Bonnets, Beards and Bastards: The Fiction of the Victorian Period
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- The Ulster-Scots Literary Tradition 1750 - 2000
- Black Lives Recovered and Remade
- The ‘Impact of Translation’ in Modern Irish and British Literature
- Dissertation
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Body, Mind and Soul in Novels and Non-Fiction from Addison to Austen
- From The Vote To The Pill: C20th And C21st Women's Writing
- Writing Ireland: Ulysses to Normal People
- Shakespeare
- Narratives of Slavery
Questions about this course
How many students continue on BA English at Ulster University?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 20% left higher education.