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BA English and United States Literature

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BA English and United States Literature offers a varied and flexible curriculum focused on the study of English and United States literatures, encompassing several genres and periods. In your first year, a core module on United States literature allows you to study classic texts regarded as establishing US literature as a specific literature from English. This study helps you answer questions like: what is American literature? What makes writing in the US different from other writing in the English language?

UCAS Code: T720 View this course through UCAS Location: Colchester Campus Qualification: Bachelor of Arts Mode of study: Full-time Duration: 36 months Tuition fee: Home/EU, Overseas Funding available: Find out

Modules in your second and third year allow you to study major texts, problems and issues in twentieth-century United States literature, while optional modules mean you can choose topics of interest to you, like film, myth, postcolonial literature or science fiction.

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Why study BA English and United States Literature at Essex?

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies is distinctive in the breadth of our cultural interests, combining expertise in literature, film, and theatre studies to provide a strong and supportive environment for your studies.

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Many of our academic staff are scholars of international reputation, including our professors, John Gillies, Richard Gray, Peter Hulme and Marina Warner, who are recognised experts in the fields respectively of Shakespeare, US literature, postcolonial studies, and cultural history (including film and other visual arts). Richard Gray was the first specialist in US literature to be appointed to the British Academy, while Marina Warner is a distinguished

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A course in literature will interest you if you enjoy reading and studying a wide range of poetry, prose and drama texts, encompassing several genres and periods including United States literature, European literature, Shakespeare and other dramatists, and twenty-first century literature. You will develop your analytical skills, as well as seeing the texts in the context of the time when they were written, meaning you graduate with strong employability skills for a range of future careers.

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If you are studying within our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, then you will have access to a range of exceptional facilities to enhance your learning and research, including our Lakeside Theatre.

Over the past three decades, our Lakeside Theatre at our Colchester Campus has been established as a major venue, known for a commitment to new writing for the stage. Not only do many professional touring companies bring their productions of new plays here but there has been a wealth of new work produced by our own staff and students.

An essential element of our Lakeside Theatres programme has been the opportunity it has given students to write or direct new plays, as well as re-define classics and re-discover neglected masterpieces.

Study abroad/placement opportunities

Within our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, we operate an exchange scheme with universities in Denmark, France, Finland, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Italy (the ERASMUS programme), which you can apply to follow in your second year. This period of time abroad offers a host of benefits, including the opportunity to view the world (and literature) from another perspective. The nine-month course of study, from October to June, spent abroad, carries full recognition of your assessment for that year and counts towards your final degree result.

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