Kingston University London - English BA (Hons)

Kingston University London

English BA (Hons)

This degree gives you the critical and creative freedom to experiment with reading and writing in a wide variety of genres and media. It's an exciting, diverse, and stimulating programme that invites you to think about the world differently. Year-long modules, interactive lecture workshops, small group seminars, and individual supervision are designed to support all your needs and abilities. There's also a range of assessments that will empower you to achieve your best work; this includes traditional essays and dissertations, alongside blogs, critical definitions and creative pieces.

Throughout your course, you'll enjoy many extracurricular events and activities, including those organized by the Race/Gender Matters research group, Kingston Language Scheme, and the Writers' Centre, Kingston.

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • Through our Writers' Centre, Kingston, you'll have opportunities to get involved in a huge range of professional and creative activities, including poetry festivals and readings by guest authors.
  • You'll be taught by a diverse range of professional, creative and academic experts.
  • Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel

     

    My Sister, The Serial Killer, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.

Entry Requirements

  • UCAS tariff points:

     

    112-128 for BA (Hons); 48 for BA (Hons) including foundation year.
  • Level 3 qualifications, including English Language/Literature or related subject (i.e. A-levels, BTEC Diploma, Access Diploma, IB Diploma, etc.). If A-level in one of these subjects, then a minimum grade C is required.
  • IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no element below 5.5.

Career Prospects

This course is designed to foster a range of transferable skills desirable to employers, such as advanced literacy and communication skills, critical thinking, organisational skills, intercultural awareness and the ability to work independently and collaboratively with others in a team.

After you graduate you'll have many career opportunities open to you, in a wide range of fields including public relations, publishing, journalism, advocacy and campaigning, copy writing, advertising and marketing, management, the legal professions, administration, business and training.

Course Details

Each level is made up of four modules each worth 30 credit points. Typically, a student must complete 120 credits at each level.

Throughout this course, there is a strong emphasis on developing skills in critical reading, writing and analysis, as well as developing your interdisciplinary skills through the academic and teaching experts from creative writing, English literature and English language and linguistics.

You'll also develop a broad range of transferable skills, and enhance your communication and analytical abilities, from problem solving to critical evaluation, time management to organisational abilities.


Year 1

Reading London: Drama, Poetry and Prose
From Prospero to Potter: Reading Through Theory
Race, Nation, Identity: Literatures of the World
Writing that Works

Year 2

Core Modules:
Independent Research Studies
Deadly Desires/Dangerous Discourse: Gothic Literature and Theory
Optional Modules:
Content, Form and Creativity
Language and Society
Being Human: Self, Subject, Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Sex and the City: From Victorian Metropolis to Modernist Wasteland
Transforming Realities: Innovation and Social Change in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
Screenwriting

Year 3

Core Modules:
Dissertation
Professional Communication Skills and Practice for Success in the Workplace
Optional Modules:
Special Study: Narrative
Special Study: Meaning
Special Study: Discourse and Social Media
Radical Writers
Making Shakespeare: Text, Performance and Adaptation
American Countercultures
Black and Asian Writing
Imagined Places: Humans, Animals and Cyborgs
Gender and Sexuality
Special Study: Narrative Techniques in Popular Fiction
Creative Writing Special Study: Get a Life: Forms of (Auto)biography
Creative Writing Special Study: Innovations in Poetry and Prose
Box Set Drama: Writing for Television

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