Program Overview

English BA (Hons)

Course Description

This distinctive, diverse and challenging programme provides a strong English Literature core to your degree, whilst offering options in English Language throughout.

Study Options

• Full-time: 3 years
• Part-time: 4 - 6 years

Fees

• UK fee: £9,535 per year (2025/26)
• International fee: £16,900 per year (2025/26)

UCAS Points

• 104 (September 2025 entry)

UCAS Code

• Q300

Start Date

• September

Location

• Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Course Details

Year 1

• Theorising Literature and Meaning (PDP)
• Enlightenment Literature
• Shakespeare and Early Modernity
• Mutants and Monsters: Interpreting Fantasy
• World Literatures in English
• Key Concepts in Linguistics

Year 2

• Core modules and optional modules (not specified)

Year 3

• Core modules and optional modules (not specified)

Teaching and Learning

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Work-based learning projects
• Study visits to cultural and heritage institutions
• Guest lectures

Assessment

• No exams
• Essays
• Seminar debates
• Group presentations
• Conference papers
• Independent projects

Careers

• Teaching
• Journalism
• Publishing
• Arts administration
• Roles in art galleries, media centres, and museums

Entry Requirements

• UCAS points: 104
• A Level: BCC (At least a grade C in English or related subject)
• T Level: Merit
• BTEC: DMM
• GCSE: Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above)
• Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits
• English language requirements: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

Additional Costs

• Purchase of set texts and copies of core text books
• Printing and binding of one copy of dissertation (approx. £6)

Research Areas

• Literary, critical, and cultural theory
• English Language and linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Language and identity

Staff Profiles

• Dr Robin Sims (Programme Leader)
• Dr Paul Whickman (Senior Lecturer in English)
• Dr Cara Penry Williams (Senior Lecturer in English Language)
• Professor Samuel Kasule (Professor, Postcolonial Theatre and Performance)
• Dr Amanda Blake Davis (Lecturer in English Literature)
• Dr Aled Williams (Lecturer in English)
• Dr Anna Burton (Lecturer in English Literature)