Overview
On this course, you will discover how texts work and debate literature’s role in society – both now and throughout history – while acquiring the skills to articulate your ideas with confidence and write with fluency and flair.
You will receive excellent teaching from internationally renowned academics who are supportive and passionate about literature and produce world-leading research in areas ranging from medieval to contemporary literature, language, creative writing and digital humanities. You will also have opportunities to attend talks by visiting writers and internationally-acclaimed guest speakers such as Kate Forsyth, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Study English Literature at DMU and join a lively and welcoming community. Get involved in the student-led English society, go on theatre trips in the UK or travel abroad with DMU Global as part of your course. Our graduates go into a wide range of professions including media, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
At DMU, you can study English Literature and Drama, Film Studies or Journalism as a joint honours course. You will choose 50 per cent of your options from English Literature and 50 per cent from Drama, Film Studies or Journalism.
Key features
- Read poetry, fiction and drama from different centuries and different continents to gain a comprehensive understanding of English literature with the flexibility to specialise in your areas of interest.
- Choose optional modules from English Language and Creative Writing, and draw on expertise from DMU’s Centre for Adaptation Studies, which explores English and Film Studies.
- Learn from world-renowned academics and internationally-acclaimed guest speakers such as writers Kate Forsyth, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah.
- Explore print and digital humanities and learn to use a hand printing press or gain practical training in HTML with options exploring the production of literary texts in manuscript, print and digital forms from DMU’s Centre for Textual Studies.
- Gain valuable workplace skills through placement and internship opportunities. Our students have worked with the National Space Centre, the English Association, Age Concern, the Leicester Mercury, and local schools and colleges.
- English graduates succeed in wide-ranging careers with big names that include Penguin Random House, HomeStyle magazine, the BBC and Pan Macmillan.
- Broaden your horizons through DMU Global, our international experience programme. Our students have discovered Danish literature in Copenhagen, learned about the role of language in surveillance in Berlin and took part in a scavenger hunt in the New York Public Library.
Structure and assessment
Course modules
First year
Core English Literature modules:
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
Optional English Literature modules:
- Introduction to the Novel
Optional Creative Writing and English Language modules:
- Words in Action: An Introduction to Grammar and Linguistics
- Exploring Creative Writing
Second year
Core English Literature modules:
- Exploration and Innovation: 14th to 18th Century Literature
Optional English Literature modules:
- Text Technologies
- Romantic and Victorian Literature
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
- Ways of Reading
- Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics
Optional Creative Writing and English Language modules:
- Teaching English Language
- Writing Place
Third year
Optional English Literature modules:
- English Dissertation
- English in the Workplace
- medieval.com
- Modernism and Modernity
- Sex and Death in Romantic Writing
- Shakespeare and Marlowe
- Studies in Literature and Film
- Textual Studies Using Computers
- Radical and Contemporary Adaptations
- Contemporary Irish Writing
- Victorian Revolutionary Literature: Chartism and Socialism
- The British Working Class in Literature, Film and Television: 1900-2005
- Unruly Women, Degenerate Men: Science, Gender and Gothic at the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1900
- Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Optional Creative Writing and English Language modules:
- Perception, Persuasion, Power: Communication and Control
- Powerful Language: Introduction to Rhetoric
- Professional Writing Skills
Facilities and features
Clephan Building
Clephan Building is home to DMU’s humanities subjects, and is equipped with the latest audio-visual equipment and cinema screens.
Currently Clephan houses some key Arts, Design and Humanities student support facilities including the Arts, Design and Humanities Placement Team and the Faculty’s Advice Centre, where you can access information about timetabling, specialist support queries. and any other questions you may have about your course.
The building also features the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing, Centre for Textual Studies, Centre for Adaptations, and the International Centre for Sports History and Culture.
Library
The main Kimberlin Library is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (other than in exceptional circumstances) and offers a huge range of online resources, all of which can be remotely accessed from anywhere you choose.
The library is run by dedicated staff who offer additional support to students, including help with academic writing, research strategies, literature searching and reference management and assistive technology, and mathematical skills for non-maths students. There is also a Just Ask service for help and advice, available via email or telephone.
Learning zones
Our Learning Zones and the The Greenhouse also provide space for group or individual work and study.
There are 1,600 study places across all library locations, more than 700 computer stations, laptops to borrow, free wi-fi and desktop power outlets.
You can also book rooms with plasma screens, laptops and DVD facilities for group work and presentations, secure an individual study room with adjustable lighting or make use of our assistive technology.
Opportunities and careers
Placements
Work placements are offered as part of this course and are a great way to boost your skills and experience while studying. Placements improve your chances of gaining a graduate-level job and can often lead to an offer of employment after graduation.
You will have the option to go on a sandwich placement between your second and third years of study and/or to do a short-term placement during your third year through the English in the Workplace module. Previous students taking this module have worked as mentors for local school pupils to help improve their reading age, written magazine features at a publishing firm, carried out research for a PR company and worked in the offices of a regional newspaper at the Leicester Mercury. We have numerous links with organisations both in the UK and internationally, and the placements team will help you to identify a placement to suit you.
Third-year Creative Writing and English BA (Hons) student Tori Cotton has been offered a full-time permanent job at Pro-Publishing Media and Events, a publishing business in Earls Colne, Essex. Tori had ambitions for working in publishing after graduation and she organised her placement for the module English in the Workplace at the company. They were so impressed with her enthusiasm and ability during that placement that they offered her a position to start immediately after graduation.
#DMUglobal
#DMUglobal aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers. The English team has so far offered opportunities to study in Tokyo, Japan and Vancouver Island in Canada.
‘My stay in Tokyo provided me with an extremely exciting and eye-opening experience into Japanese culture and language. I have gained more self-esteem and have the confidence and aspiration to work abroad again…’ (Lauren Marston, 2015)
Study abroad
You will have the opportunity, as part of your degree, to study abroad in Europe or the USA.
The Faculty currently offers English students opportunities to study at the following European universities: the European University of Cyprus, Faith University, Istanbul (Turkey), Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf (Germany), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the University of Oulu (Finland).
Graduate careers
English Literature graduates are eminently employable because of their highly developed communication and reasoning skills and their ability to work independently and as part of a group. The latest statistics show that 95 per cent of recent graduates were employed or in further study six months after graduation.
Our graduates go into a wide range of careers including archival work, the media, the civil service, marketing, journalism, the arts, library services, banking, charity work, teaching English as a foreign language, publishing, public relations, primary and secondary teaching, and postgraduate study.
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