BA (Hons) English Literature Bachelor's degree at UWE Bristol

You'll develop a critical understanding of storytelling as an aspect of human experience, exploring different approaches to storytelling and building critical literacy skills.

You'll be introduced to the study of English literature at university level. In particular, you'll hone your skills in close reading, and understand and apply critical and theoretical approaches to literature.

You'll study the role both adult literature about childhood and children's literature has had in shaping and constructing childhood, looking at the ever-changing construction of childhood in wider culture.

You'll study the role of the author in the marketplace, developing an appreciation of how literature and creative responses to it are experienced and consumed by the public, and the cultural and economic value of literature.

You'll study human culture, including how humans interact with each other, with non-human animals, and with the world. You'll engage with the pressing questions of our age, as well as considering the power of culture, justice, and activism to offer solutions.

On this module, you'll examine the relationship between literature, law, responsibility, and citizenship, extending your critical awareness of how literature responds to and shapes global narratives and policies.

You'll analyse some major Victorian texts that articulate central concerns and conflicts of the period, considering the ways in which these texts emerge out of, and critique, Victorian culture and society.

You'll design and deliver a self-devised project which addresses a series of research questions using appropriate methods. Your completed project will showcase your individual contribution to knowledge within the Humanities

You'll develop an understanding of literature's engagement with existential issues through topics that may include climate migration, future technologies, speculative futures, race, and gender and sexuality.