IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 63% (min 55% in all areas)
TOEFL: 90 (min R18, L17, S20, W17)
If you can get lost in a book for hours on end, and enjoy writing or even drama, English is a natural choice. Storytelling is part of every culture and reveals much about a person’s lived experience, values and aspirations within a given time.
Taking the English BA at Brunel is an opportunity to uncover the richness of English literature history – its periods, genres and diverse storytellers – through a set of underlying themes.
Your journey will commence with a module on ‘Reading Resilience’ to help equip you with the required skills and competencies relevant to literary studies, so you can approach any topic with confidence.
After a first year of modules that pass through modern literature and formative texts to help develop your critical reading, your exploration in English is very much down to your own interests and choices.
In years two and three a wealth of optional modules await you, covering every period and genre from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, postcolonial writing to the women’s movement, with plenty of choice in contemporary and genre fiction like comedy, science fiction and horror.
Throughout your literature degree you will be encouraged to express your own thoughts and creativity in your coursework and seminars, which will help you to grow as a critic and writer.
An English degree will equip you with personal skills employers’ prize in graduates – not just exceptional written and verbal communication, but also the ability to communicate collaboratively in a team towards an agreed goal.
As part of your English BA you will learn to participate and present confidently in seminars, communicate your ideas effectively in writing, and to critically evaluate relevant themes within texts that frequently cross into other disciplines such as history and politics.
Opt for a placement year and you will gain hands-on work experience while you study which will further increase your attractiveness to employers when you graduate.
Outside your classroom, you can look forward to events and activities organised by the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, including the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival: a free weekend of literary performances from internationally renowned authors, writing workshops and lively debates right here on campus.
Course code: Q300, Q301 with placement
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Year 1
Compulsory
EN1604 World Literature 1: Going Global
EN1605 World Literature 2: Travels and Migrations
Year 2
Optional
EN2011 - Post-Colonial Writing
EN2014 - Modernism
EN2021 - Romanticism and Revolution
EN2605 - Genre Fiction
EN2001 - The Nineteenth-Century Novel
EN2002 - Shakespeare: Text and Performance
EN2610 - Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
EN2607 - The Women’s Movement: 20th Century and Contemporary Writing
Year 3
Compulsory
EN3003 - Project
Optional
EN3022 - Victorian Literature and Culture
EN3617 - Violence
EN3605 - Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature
EN3619 - Chaucer to Shakespeare
AH3600 - Psychogeography
EN3604 - Writing Ireland
EN3613 - The Creative Industries
FM3007 Gender and Sexuality
FM3010 The Horror Film
FM3015 - American Independent Cinema
On completion of the English BA, you will have a set of enviable skills which are vital for a variety of careers. Many Brunel English graduates go into teaching, media-related jobs like publishing, marketing and journalism, and others into the business world as account executives, campaign organisers and consultants.
Brunel graduates of this degree fit just as easily into other career environments, and the opportunity of doing a placement year to gain experience in a job role and industry sector will be a distinct advantage.
Above all, this English degree will be enormously beneficial to your own writing, critique and self-expression.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
