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English including Foundation Year (4yrs) at Kingston University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Kingston University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • Through our Writers’ Centre, Kingston, you’ll have opportunities to get involved in a huge range of professional and creative activities, including poetry festivals and readings by guest authors.
  • You’ll be taught by a diverse range of professional, creative and academic experts.
  • Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.
  • Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.
About this course This degree gives you the critical and creative freedom to experiment with reading and writing in a wide variety of genres and media. It’s an exciting, diverse, and stimulating programme that invites you to think about the world differently. Year-long modules, interactive lecture workshops, small group seminars, and individual supervisions are designed to support all your needs and abilities. There’s also a range of assessments that will empower you to achieve your best work; this includes traditional essays and dissertations, alongside blogs, critical definitions and creative pieces. Throughout your course, you’ll enjoy many extracurricular events and activities, including those organised by the Race/Gender Matters research group, Kingston Language Scheme, and the Writers’ Centre, Kingston. Future Skills Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it. Career opportunities Graduates have gone on to work in public relations, publishing, journalism, advocacy and campaigning, advertising and marketing and management. Many have also been published.

Modules

Example modules – British Black and Asian Writing – Reading London: Drama, Poetry and Prose – Sex and the City: From Victorian Metropolis to Modernist Wasteland To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment method

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. test or exam), practical (e.g. presentations, performance) and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios and dissertation).

How to apply

29Jan

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

Course code:
Q303
Institution code:
K84
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/english/

English language requirements

English language requirements

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/international/studying-at-kingston/language-requirements/

Student Outcomes

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There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For international fees, please visit: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding/fees/ Please visit the provider course webpage for further information regarding additional course costs
English including Foundation Year (4yrs) at Kingston University - UCAS