Course Summary

We are enthusiastic about literature and passionate about helping you achieve your full potential. Our degree offers you an excellent grounding in a comprehensive range of texts and allows you to follow your enthusiasms, particularly when you choose your own topic for your dissertation. We also offer a distinctive experience of working alongside academic critics, literary theorists and practising writers. This ensures that you’ll gain a breadth of insight into literature, language and your own academic writing. Our department is committed to excellence in teaching and research. We are consistently ranked highly for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. Vibrant lectures, seminars with small group work and individual tutorials are central to the student experience. We have one of the best student retention rates in the country. We know and care about our students. You’ll enjoy a friendly and welcoming environment in the beautiful and safe city of Chichester, home to the famous Festival Theatre, New Park Cinema and internationally renowned Pallant House Gallery.

Course Details - Modules

In your first year you’ll explore Victorian literature from the Brontës to Oscar Wilde and you’ll enter the exciting space of Modernist experimentation. You’ll encounter new ways of thinking about the world and human identity and engage with Fantasy. You’ll learn about ‘Literature Now’ and consider its latest transformations into film and the graphic novel. In your second year you’ll delve into past cultures, experiencing the rich literature of the Renaissance and encountering Romantics, rebels and reactionaries. You’ll choose to deepen your knowledge of fantasy, fairy tales or the gothic and you’ll explore the globe through world literature. Whether you love detective writing, science fiction, ecology or romance, you’ll be fascinated by the other worlds you discover. Stimulated by vibrant research events, as you progress into your third year you’ll select from numerous specialisms and design your own research project on your favourite topic. Throughout, you’ll be supported by one-to-one contact with our friendly team who will guide you through our extensive range of ‘Study Abroad’ options and our excellent work placement module.

Course Details – Assessment Method

Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.

Course Details – Professional Bodies

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

How to Apply

26 January 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: Q310

Institution code: C58

Campus Name: Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester

Campus code:

Points of Entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

International applicants

Standard Qualification Requirements

including English Literature, English Language, English Language and Literature, Creative Writing or Drama at grade B or C

A levels or combination with AS/EPQ/BTEC/Cambridge Technical

Pass with 12 level 3 credits worth of English units at Merit.

The University welcomes the Extended Project Qualification and this will be taken into account in offers (where presented by an applicant).

English Higher at 4.

The University welcomes mature applicants who may not have the standard entry requirements listed here. As an alternative, a 'non-standard entry portfolio' may be set for the applicant to complete in order to demonstrate their readiness for higher education. • IELTS 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5

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

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

English language requirements

Test Grade AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic) 5.5
PTE Academic 43.0

If you are an international student and English is not your first language, you can begin your 3-year degree programme with IELTS 5.5. Our International Route allows you to take 4 credit-bearing modules in International English Studies (IES) as part of your first year studies. This means you study 4 modules in your chosen subject and 4 in International English. The IES Modules allow you to focus on personal language development and your use of English as an academic language. Then, at the end of your first year, you’ll have all the necessary language skills to transfer to full study of your main subject. If you have an IELTS score under 5.5 you can still begin a 3-year degree programme with us. In this case we provide a 5 or 10 week intensive Presessional Programme in English language and academic skills. For the 10 week Programme you’ll need IELTS 4.5, and IELTS 5.0 for the 5 week Programme.

Unistats information

Student satisfaction : 52%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 80%

Go onto work and study: 95%

Fees and funding

EU 14500.0 Year 1
Channel Islands 9250.0 Year 1
England 9250.0 Year 1
Northern Ireland 9250.0 Year 1
Scotland 9250.0 Year 1
Wales 9250.0 Year 1
International 14500.0 Year 1

Additional Fee Information

There is a 10% tuition fee scholarship for EU students.

Provider information

Bishop Otter Campus
College Lane
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Chichester
PO19 6PE

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