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English Program Details

Overview

In a world where information is infinite and misinformation is rife, it’s vital to interpret texts with skill and a critical eye. There’s more to studying English than being a skilled reader – it’s about being a skilled writer and thinker too. This is a global subject that influences writing and performance all over the world. At the same time, it pays attention to local communities and cultures. A degree in English is a great launchpad into many areas as you’ll be seen as a top communicator by potential employers.

Structure

You can complete your English degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

Year 1

• You will take the following modules (all compulsory):
  • Literatures in Time: Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages
  • London Global
  • Poetry
  • Reading, Theory and Interpretation
  • Shakespeare
• Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2

• You will take one module from each of the three period-specific lists:
  • List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies
    • Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
    • Renaissance Drama
  • List Two: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth Century Studies
    • Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
    • Romantics and Revolutionaries
    • Victorian Fictions
  • List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies
    • Modernism
    • Postcolonial and Global Literatures
    • Reading the Present
• You also choose one or two modules from a range of special options that changes each year. Modules may include:
  • American Romanticism
  • Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
  • Global Shakespeare
  • James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
  • Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
  • The Thousand and One Nights
• This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
• Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

• In your final year, you will complete a compulsory English Research Dissertation.
• Along with your dissertation project, you'll select your final-year modules from a range of options, taking one 30 credit module and one 15 credit module in each semester. Modules may include:
  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Creative Writing Prose Fiction
  • Criticism and Code: Digital Practices for English Studies
  • Feminism(s)
  • Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
  • Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600
  • Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
  • Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
  • Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre
  • Reading the Contemporary Middle East
  • Reading Late Victorian Literature
  • Romantic Women Writers
  • Victorian Sensation Fiction
  • Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
  • Time, Narrative and Culture
  • Writing Black and Asian Britain
• This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
• Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study Options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year Abroad

• Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English BA with a Year Abroad.
• Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Entry Requirements

English - BA (Hons)

• A-Level: Grades BBB at A-Level.
• IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects.
• BTEC: See our detailed subject and grade requirements.
• Access HE: We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements.
• GCSE: Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4.
• EPQ: Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information, please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq.
• Contextualised admissions: Our standard contextual offer: BCC. Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC. More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered.

English with Year Abroad - BA (Hons)

• A-Level: Grades BBB at A-Level.
• IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects.
• BTEC: See our detailed subject and grade requirements.
• Access HE: We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements.
• GCSE: Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4.
• EPQ: Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information, please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq.
• Contextualised admissions: Our standard contextual offer: BCC. Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC. More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered.

Funding

Loans and Grants

• UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.

Scholarships and Bursaries

• Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.
• Scholarships are available for home, EU, and international students. Specific funding is also available for students from the local area. International students may be eligible for a fee reduction.

Careers

Our English graduates go on to work in all sorts of sectors, including teaching, publishing, media and communications, and arts and heritage. Some of our most well-known alumni include authors Sarah Waters, JG Ballard, and Conn Iggulden, and TV comedy writer James Lamont.

Recent graduates from the School of the Arts have been hired by:

• Harper Collins
• Historic Royal Palaces
• The Independent
• London and Partners
• Penguin Random House
• Shakespeare’s Globe.

About the School

The School of the Arts combines innovation, discovery, and excellence in education and research in Drama, Film, Modern Languages, English & Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Liberal Arts. We rank in the top 100 worldwide for Arts and Humanities (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).

With our commitment to social justice, inclusivity, and social mobility, our collaborations with external organisations, prominent writers and performers, and our facilities that support both academic and practice-based learning, an education in the School of the Arts equips our students with critical thinking and practical skills, unleashes their imagination, and enables them to reach the levels of excellence needed in today’s industries.

We regularly host prominent writers and performers and collaborate with leading organisations such as the V&A, the Barbican, the Live Art Development Agency, and Shakespeare’s Globe.

We are renowned for the depth and impact of research - which leads our teaching. We rank 1st for drama and in the top 10 for film in the UK for the quality of our research (REF2021). Our multilingual community brings together brilliant minds from across the world to share a wealth of expertise combining research excellence with an unrivalled commitment to social justice and social mobility.