BA (Hons) English

Our BA English degree gives you the opportunity to develop the critical and verbal skills needed for confident, effective reading of literary texts and criticism.

Bold, flexible, and richly diverse, the BA in English offers you a world of literature and language. You will be taken on a thrilling intellectual and imaginative journey from the Caribbean, New York, and Victorian London, to the American South via 1980s Northern Ireland, South Korea, Zimbabwe, Belarus, India, and Algeria. Along the way, we encourage you to ask big, complex, and often challenging questions about how to read literature in all its cultural, artistic, and political contexts ranging from the analysis of bear-baiting in Early Modern drama, the role of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th century novel to the impact of the #metoo and Black Lives Matter movements on 21st-century literature, film, and culture.
You will travel across histories, cultures, and languages and be encouraged to engage in a huge variety of debates around, for example, gender and sexual identity, the Transatlantic slave trade, climate change, feminism, Caribbean writing, indigenous literature and philosophical ideas about what it means to be human across time.

Length
3 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time

Alevel BBB
BTEC DDM
International Baccalaureate 33 points overall with Three HL subjects at 655
Access Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of meritspasses in subjectspecific modules
Scottish qualifications BBBBC Higher or BBC Advanced Higher
European Baccalaureate 75 percent including a strong grade in English Literature
Irish Leaving Certificate H2 H2 H2 H2

If English isnt your first language you will need an IELTS score or equivalent English language qualification of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme

toefl ibt - 92 overall with 23 in Writing and no lower than 20 in each other skill will meet English language requirements.