A levels, AAA/A*AB including an A in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable)
Access to Higher Education Diploma, 39 credits at Distinction, including at least 9 credits in Literature-related units, and 6 credits at Merit or higher
BTEC National Extended Diploma, DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in English Literature at grade A
Cambridge Pre-U, D3, D3, D3 including English Literature.
European Baccalaureate, 85% overall, with 85% in English Literature.
International Baccalaureate, 36 points, with 6 in all Higher level subjects, including English Literature.
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
IELTS (Academic and Indicator), 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component
C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component
Duolingo, 110 overall, with a minimum of 100 in each component
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language), Grade C
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT, B2 Communicator High Pass with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
PTE Academic, 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component
TOEFL, 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component
Trinity ISE III, Merit in all components
English and Related Literature at York is unlike any other English degree. We have a unique approach to what literature is and does, how we read it, how we write about it and even how we make it.
At York, you will be at the forefront of literary study. Our modules are designed and taught by world experts working at the cutting-edge of literary study.
We offer a breathtaking choice of modules with an unsurpassed geographical and linguistic range, giving you the freedom to tailor your degree to your interests with the support of friendly and accessible tutors. With period coverage extending from Greek and Latin classics to literature being published right now, there’s something for everyone, including creative writing, drama, film, and the chance to get your hands dirty in our printing studio.
No discipline equips its students better to understand and interpret a wide range of texts or to form articulate and persuasive responses to a range of challenges. Our graduates go on to careers in all sorts of fields, even areas that traditionally haven’t recruited among Arts and Humanities graduates.
An English graduate’s creativity, passion, and ability to adapt – along with outstanding presentation, language, and reasoning skills – are what employers look for. Join us at York to discover a world of literature.
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Year 1
Core modules
We’ll introduce you to a range of different texts and critical approaches in your first year to lay the foundation for your degree. Through a carefully designed curriculum, you will be introduced to the historical and theoretical study of literature. This will be supplemented by additional skills-based and topic-based modules.
Approaches to Literature
Get a feel for the shape of literary history by studying works from the medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, and modern periods.
Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
A World of Literature
Explore a range of responses to ancient literary texts and literature from around the world.
A World of Literature I: Classics and Cultural Translations
A World of Literature II: Empire and Aftermaths
Key Concepts
Establish important critical and methodological contexts for the study of literature. You will develop strategies for essay writing, engaging with criticism and critical theory, and revising work to improve its fluency and persuasiveness, as part of the Department’s innovative Writing at York provision.
Key Concepts: An Introduction to Genre, Theory, and Writing
Option modules
The core modules will be supplemented by additional skills-based and topic-based modules:
Topic modules
These exciting, hands-on, tightly focused modules act as an important pivot point between the research skills developed throughout the year and practical skills that will make you more employable after your degree.
Options may cover topics such as:
The Big Book
Bodies and Minds
Ecomedieval
The Global Eighteenth Century
Literature and the City
Now: Intersectional Feminisms from the 1960s to the Present
Myth
5 Things about Poetry
Year 2
In the second year of your degree, you will further your understanding of literature’s rich heritage, taking an array of modules that invite you to think historically and globally. Our innovative core modules will help you to continue to develop your critical inquiry and writing skills.
Core modules
Writing Now
Research Now
Writing Now expands the possibilities for writing about literature, exploring contemporary forms that emphasise a more fluid relationship between critical and creative practices. Research Now propels you toward advanced literary research, helping you to develop your own critical interventions as you hone ideas for your final-year dissertation.
Option modules
Our Intermediate Option Modules allow you to deepen your understanding of the relationship between literary works and the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which they were produced. These cover topics such as:
The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
The Renaissance
Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901
Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
You will also choose from subjects included in our World Literature modules, which invite you to engage with questions of language, translation, and cultural difference in ways that equip you with important skills in linguistic analysis and description. Some are taught partly in the original language and partly in translation, others entirely in translation - the choice is yours. Recent offerings have included:
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Literatures
European New Cinema
French Poetry 1844-1898
The Literature of Hispanic America
Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
Muslim Translations of Britain
Old Norse Literature
The World of Beowulf
Year 3
You’ll have the opportunity to explore further the areas you’ve developed an interest in over the course of your studies through the diverse range of module choices available to our third-year students. In addition, the subject of your English dissertation is entirely up to you, which means that there is an exciting opportunity for you to shape the trajectory of your final year.
Option modules
Our Advanced Option Modules reflect the wide-ranging and cutting-edge research expertise of the Department and cover literature from the classical period to the twenty-first century, as well as film and creative writing. Students can typically choose from around 25 options. Recent offerings include:
American Independent Film
The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture
Charles Dickens
Fashion in the 18th Century
Found in Translation
From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages & Modern Literature from 1843 - 1940
Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
Modernism's Queer Spaces
Poetry Boot Camp
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction
Researching the Renaissance
So Funny it Hurts: Irish Comic Fiction
Villains of the Romantic Gothic
The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations
Arts Administration
Civil and Diplomatic Services
Film, Radio, Social Media, Television, and Theatre
Journalism and Broadcasting
Law
Librarianship
Member of Parliament
Postgraduate study
Publishing
Teaching
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year