BA (Hons) English Literature Bachelor's degree at Edge Hill University

introduces you to the art of writing by focusing on published pieces, specifically short prose, poems and dramatic script by concentrating on the analysis of literary texts. Through the close examination of set texts, you will be supported in developing skills in reading as a writer and writerly techniques of perception, language and effect.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

will introduce you to the key skills and approaches necessary to successfully engage with academic study in the twenty-first century, providing a foundation for the exploration of English at university level. You will be introduced to a range of influential key theories from the 20th and 21st centuries, and learn how to apply these to literary and linguistic texts and approaches.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

seeks to develop your knowledge and understanding of concepts and issues within the context of arts and humanities and the creative industries. You will develop both your understanding of contemporary employability contexts and your research skills and will also gain insight into the practice of industry speakers through presentations and workshops.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

enables you to gain a basic understanding and knowledge of the description and classification of speech sounds and the sound system of English through study of poetry and prosody. It will also allow you to focus on associated employability skills and gain knowledge and understanding of the ways in which phonetics are directly relevant to several fields, such as speech and language therapy, second language learning, education, literary stylistics, forensic phonetics and artificial intelligence.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

will introduce you to narrative storytelling on screen. It is designed to develop your ability to articulate informed, personal responses to visual narratives by equipping you with vocabulary and knowledge appropriate to this Level. The module emphasises the narrative and stylistic aspects of visual analysis in, for example, sequential art, film, television, and digital games, with particular attention paid to image and sound interpretation, academic vocabulary, and methods through which visual

Assessment: 100% Coursework

introduces you to business planning and the development stages in business start-up. You will organise and evaluate theoretical perspectives in a practical setting, informing your future learning processes and outcomes. A key element of the module is a review of entrepreneurial skills and small business development through theoretical concepts of enterprise, self-employment and small business management.

Assessment: 50% Coursework 50% Practical

is based around the study of key theories and methodologies which have had a lasting impact on the disciplines of English and Creative Writing. It introduces you to significant ideas in contemporary criticism which shape scholarship in the twenty-first century. You will engage with some philosophical and some linguistic approaches which reflect changing ideas about the text and which will implement your understanding of these ideas in your interpretive, critical and analytical writing.

Assessment: 60% Practical 40% Coursework

is ideal if you want to learn a new language, or further develop your current language skills, as an integrated part of this degree. The module will be taught in an interactive, communicative manner, using authentic materials in the target language. Emphasis will be placed on all four areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Assessment: 85% Coursework 15% Practical

provides an introduction to texts, authors, genres and central themes from the first stirrings of what has been traditionally conceived of as the Romantic age in the 1760s, until the dawn of the Victorian age seventy years later. Poetry, the prose essay and the novel are all studied on this module.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

focuses on a single author (such as Hardy or Dickens) or a related group of authors (such as the Brontës) whose works are sufficiently extensive to merit a whole semester's study. You will examine the author's work in the light of recent critical and theoretical approaches to authorship and canonicity and develop an ability to theorise the relationship between an author and their literary work.

Assessment: 60% Coursework 40% Practical

enables you to begin to develop your independent research skills within a structure which provides a clear and continuing framework of support. The module will take you through weekly subject-based sessions to structured study of your chosen extended special subject research. You will have considerable choice of subject matter within three broad pathways which draw on current staff research specialisms.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

offers you an opportunity to study a range of significant American literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in its historical, social, cultural, political, critical, and theoretical contexts. Throughout the module, you will examine various ways in which America is imagined and constructed in literature and how persistent figures, landscapes, and mythic concepts are engrained in American culture and embedded in the wider world's imagination.

Assessment: 100% Coursework

explores characteristics, behaviours, attributes, and skills of entrepreneurship as well as the whole process of innovation from idea to product development and the conditions that must be fulfilled for innovation to thrive. The module explores research from a number of areas to highlight the importance of factors such as social and economic capital, local and regional infrastructure and the role of government in enabling (or disabling) innovation.