3Oct
UndergraduateCourse summary
Overview If you want a future with fewer limits, this is the degree for you. When you study English Literature at Portsmouth, you'll also explore history and politics, society and culture, human relationships and identities, and how we choose to live. And you’re doing it in a city steeped in lively literature, from Charles Dickens to Neil Gaiman. You’ll explore complex, challenging issues – from masculinity to the Holocaust. You’ll learn the skills to critically analyse the purpose, truth and impact of any written text. You’ll also develop the skills to produce your own writing and presentations, so you can communicate original ideas in ways that engage and influence readers. The combination of creative thinking and rigorous analysis you develop will make you a compelling candidate for all kinds of jobs – from marketing to museums, and journalism to publishing. Course highlights
- Discover our literary city with the constantly evolving Portsmouth Literary Map – your course begins with a tour of literary Portsea and the Dockyards area, introducing significant places in the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, today's local writers, and plenty more
- Enjoy the freedom to interpret assignments creatively, and develop employable skills in presentation and teamwork, on a course without exams
- Learn directly from staff who produce world-leading research into areas as diverse as magical realism and representations of food
- Build specialist knowledge by choosing the topics that match your interests – from global literature to dystopian and apocalyptic environments, from women’s writing to crime writing
- Develop your own style and build up your portfolio by becoming a contributor to our Writing Literary Portsmouth blog
- Curate your own literary prize or produce a prize pitch, to experience what happens when writing meets the commercial marketplace
- Build a professional network with high-profile figures including authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, judges and critics through our contacts and partnerships
- BA (Hons) English Literature with History
- BA (Hons) English Literature with Media Studies
- sophisticated analytical skills, enabling you to assess texts on any topic
- the ability to think critically and reach your own conclusions
- a flair for presenting and discussing ideas with diverse audiences
- the confidence to say exactly what you mean to say, in writing and in person
- a creative mindset that helps you see things differently
- a well-developed sense of empathy and teamworking skills
- advertising
- journalism
- arts and media
- public relations
- copywriting
- teaching
- research
- copywriter
- journalist and editor
- marketing executive
- teacher
- paralegal
- sales executive
- museum curator
Subject options
This course offers the following subject options:
- English Literature with History
- English Literature with Media Studies
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year currently include:
- Body Politics
- Global Identities
- Popular Culture
- The Short Story: Murder, Madness And Experimentation
- Unpacking Texts: Introducing Critical Theory
- Literary Prizes And Public Acclaim
- Research In Practice
- Bloody Shakespeare: The Politics and Poetics of Violence
- Crime Writing
- Dystopian and Apocalyptic Environments: Ecocrisis in the Literary Imagination
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Global Security
- Intercultural Perspectives on Communication
- Marketing and Communication
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)
- Modernity and Globalisation
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday
- News, Discourse and Media
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation
- Professional Experience
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature
- Space, Place and Being
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response
- Women’s Writing in the Americas
- Dissertation / Major Project
- Specialist Option: Empires and Identities
- Specialist Option: Societies in Revolution
- Consuming Fictions: Food And Appetite In Victorian Culture
- Holocaust Literatures
- Magical Realism
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates
- Professional Experience
- Time, Temporality, Contemporary Fiction
- US Masculinities
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through: essays textual analysis presentations a dissertation real-world projects creative assignments You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Year 1 students: 100% by coursework Year 2 students: 100% by coursework Year 3 students: 100% by coursework
How to apply
31Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
| PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| International | £18100 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship
Placement Year and Year abroad:
UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 |
EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)|
International (Non-EU) – £2,000.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP