Course Summary
Learn how different societies have shaped, and been shaped by, English literature on our full-time English Literature degree in Cambridge. Choose to study abroad for one semester. Become a self-reliant researcher as well as developing many critical and communication skills required in the modern workplace.
Entry Requirement
96 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), including grade C in English Language or English Literature.
3 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 7.0 ( Academic level), or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
You may also be accepted to this course with an IELTS 5.5 (Academic level- with no individual score being lower than 5.5) or equivalent English Language qualification as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University, but will then be required to undertake additional compulsory free English language modules in your first year.
Foundation year
Foundation in Humanities, English, Media, Social Sciences and Education;
Year one
- A History of English Literature, from the present to 1789
- Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Prose Fiction
- Reading Literature and Theory
- A History of English Literature from Equiano to Chaucer
- Fundamentals of Publishing
- Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Poetry and Plays
Year Two
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
- Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
- Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
Year Three
- Spectacle and Representation in Renaissance Drama
- Major Project
Independent Research Project (English Literature)
- Theorising Children's Literature
- Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës
- Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
- Employability for English Literature
