Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - English

Program Description Throughout the ages, the written word has been a powerful force for political action, historical documentary, creative expression and transformation. A passion for English is shared at Nottingham Trent University, and on the degree, passion is brought to enhancing, interrogating, and challenging students' understanding, while also developing their talents and strengths.

English at Nottingham Trent University gives students the opportunity to travel across literary genres and contexts, living different lives and stepping into different shoes. Nottingham Trent University is interested in everything: what Literature says about race, gender and sexuality; climate emergency; politics and society. Students will research what Literature represents of the past, shows about the present, and predicts for the future.

Students will develop a rich blend of skills and talents to draw on, every day of their life. Students will be able to write, analyse, publish, curate, evaluate, assess, record, anthologise, summarise, call out nonsense and appreciate beauty. Students will work out the strange truth in fiction, and the strange fictions in truth. Responding to texts in articles, podcasts, blogs and creative and critical writing, Nottingham Trent University will equip students for a future in which they have more than one way to shine. Graduates are interesting, knowledgeable, adaptable - and extremely employable.

The course is very flexible, offering a broad range of optional modules that allow students to pursue their passions and interests. Not only will students study traditional topics and texts, but they also explore innovative literatures and exciting new approaches to old and new texts and movements. Importantly, throughout the course, students will develop a wide range of transferable skills that are highly valued by employers.

In Year One, students will cover a range of methodological, critical and theoretical approaches to the study of English. Students will explore key debates and develop their written and verbal communication skills, while enhancing their career knowledge.

In Year Two, students will study two core modules and select a number of optional modules based on their individual interests. There's also an opportunity to spend the second half of the year on international exchange at one of Nottingham Trent University's partner universities.

In the final year, with one-to-one supervision, students will research an extended dissertation project on a topic of their choice or respond to an employer-led project brief.