Program Overview

BA (Hons) English Literatures and History with Foundation Year

Overview

This course is designed for students who want to study English Literatures and History, but don't have the necessary qualifications to enter the standard three-year degree.

Entry Requirements

• Prepare for Foundation Pathway: We will consider applicants who have not achieved 48 UCAS points (equivalence) from prior level 3 qualifications, if you have a keen interest in this subject area or hold relevant experience. You will be required to attend and pass a compulsory Prepare For Foundation assessment day where you will take part in a variety of activities which will assess your suitability for the course.

Course Fees and Finance

• Home: £9,250 per year (Full-time), £4,625 per year (Part-time)
• International: £14,950 per year (Full-time)

Additional Course Costs

• Additional Field Trips: Small contribution for field trips may be requested.

Funding

• Tuition Fees Loan (Home Fee Status): Most students will be able to apply for a loan to pay for these subject to eligibility.
• Self-funding: If you don’t want to take out a loan to pay your fees or if you aren’t eligible to receive a loan, you might want to take advantage of the University’s scheme to pay by instalments.
• Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees: If your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.

Course Structure

• Year 1:
  • Contemporary Social Issues
  • Preparing for Success at University
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Wolverhampton and its People
• Year 2:
  • Bigger than the Beatles: The Power of Pop Culture
  • Changing Times: Twentieth Century Histories
  • Going Round the Wrekin: The Midlands in Literature
  • Reading and Writing Poetry
  • Understanding the Early Modern World
  • Witnesses to History: Archives and Oral History
• Year 3:
  • Research in Action
  • Theorising Literatures and Identities
  • Campaigning and Citizenship: Womens Activism, 1790s - 1970s
  • Children's Literature
  • Consuming the World: Drink, Drugs and Shopping in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Disability in Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Histories of the Great War
  • Migrant Stories. Itinerants, Migrants and Refugees in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
  • Terrible Beauty: Adventures in the Gothic
• Year 4:
  • Austen's Afterlives: adaptations, sequels and retellings
  • Ending Empire in South Asia
  • From Unification to Auschwitz. Germany
  • Independent Study - English
  • Independent Study in History
  • Literature in the Digital Age
  • Modernisms and The Avant-Garde
  • Public History
  • Queer Medieval
  • Sex and Family in Britain
  • The Centre Cannot Hold: Postcolonial Texts and Intersectionality
  • Understanding the Holocaust
  • Virtual Romanticism: Literature and Imagination
  • Youth Culture and Popular Music in Twentieth Century Britain

Career Paths

• Teaching/Learning
• Museum and Archiving
• Curatorship
• Advertising
• Publishing
• Journalism

Additional Information

• School of Humanities staff include members specialised in Literature, each deeply passionate about the arts and with published writing on topics of interest.
• The eclectic blend of features and fascinations they bring to teaching will be imparted through your curriculum, forming a broad base of subject knowledge for you to explore.
• Embedded meetings with decorated critical, professional and creative writers will enrich your topic understanding, carrying insights on employability and credibility.
• Opportunities for work-environment experience and further activities are emphasised.
• The Literatures@Wolves Culture Programme is one of many unique areas where this approach manifests, allowing you to participate in events and visits of cultural, curricular and career interest on- and off-campus.
• By the end of your course, you will be able to construct a prolific Student Record of Achievement for presentation to potential employers, aided by our teaching staff and embellished by the actions taken during your studies.

Why Choose This Course?

• Literatures spanning across times and places the world over are taught at the University of Wolverhampton with enthusiasm and expertise, encouraging examination of popular and canonical works with a critical eye to match the passion of students.
• Under the tutelage of the School of Humanities’ regarded staff, you will study literature with a mindfulness of contexts, particularly as they pertain to issues of ethics and representation.
• Opportunities for sessions with internationally renowned literary critics, award-winning novelists and poets will further compound your analytical aptitude, as will participation in the visits and events offered during the Literatures@Wolves Culture Program and further embedded opportunities for applied learning in the curriculum.
• Upon graduation, your qualification and the skills earned throughout your degree will prepare you to enter a wide range of employment fields, including education, journalism, publishing, marketing and archiving.

What's Unique About This Course?

• Your existing literary interest and ability will be fuelled through materials and ideas covered on this course.
• Throughout the programme you will also have a multitude of opportunities to practice your own creative abilities, applying your developed critical proficiency.
• Confidence-building opportunities including placements and work/volunteering experience, on top of opportunities offered via the Literatures@Wolves Culture Programme.