ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2020/21
English at Warwick gives you the chance to take an unexpected step. Uncover startling DON’T SETTLE revelations. Awaken your passions. FOR THE SAME We’re fond of freedom at Warwick. Freedom to learn, through an enormous array of modules to suit your interests, DISRUPT THE and through a range of innovative assessment techniques. OLD STORY You’re also free to explore campus and further afjeld, whether it’s to catch a performance at Warwick Arts Centre, visit the home of Shakespeare in Stratford, or immerse yourself in the local performance and poetry scene in Leamington Spa and Birmingham. S T A TUS QUO Ranked 1st in the UK for our Research*, Warwick English also means you’ll feel well connected and ahead of the game. You’ll graduate confjdent in the knowledge that the skills you’ve developed throughout your degree will be highly valued by employers, from the creative, public and private sectors alike. It all makes for an experience that’s distinct from other universities. By studying English at Warwick, you’ll be taking a path that refmects what’s distinctive about you. *Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. 02 || ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2020/21 warwick.ac.uk/english || 03
CHARACTERS A PLACE WHO LEAVE THAT LIVES AN IMPRESSION AND BREATHES It goes without saying that our teachers and Your love for English Literature can only researchers are passionate. deepen here. We’re lucky to have Warwick Arts Centre, one of the largest Instead, we want you to know this: “YOU’LL MAKE Credit Richard Davenport multi-artform venues in the UK, on our campus. Internationally we see literature as a way of seeing FRIENDS FOR LIFE renowned companies like Cheek by Jowl, Northern Broadsides, the world with more clarity. Our – WHO WILL ALSO Kneehigh, and Filter regularly play at Warwick Arts Centre. It also students say that we’re ‘people who doubles as a space where you can produce your own work in the will explode your view of the world BE YOUR Studio, on the main stage, or in the Helen Martin ‘cube’. on a weekly basis and teach you to COLLABORA TORS AND investigate the shrapnel’. That could be enough. But our lively campus sits near the centre PARTNERS IN CRIME.” of Coventry, once home to Philip Larkin, the legendary Dame We don’t follow the traditional path Ellen Terry and another renowned Shakespearean actor, Nigel of ‘study the text, understand the Hawthorne. Theatre producer Dominic Madden and playwright text, write about the text’. We put Whatever your expectations of Alan Pollock were both locals, and George Eliot used the city itself texts on their feet. Yes, we’ll make academic life, our staff and students as inspiration for Middlemarch . The Belgrade Theatre is also based you more passionate about books, are welcoming and supportive. Our in Coventry, where early company members included Trevor Nunn, but we’re more interested in igniting student body isn’t about elitism, Joan Plowright and Ian McKellan. Then there’s Birmingham and the your feelings about the world or cliques, or one-upmanship. Repertory Theatre, where actors like Ralph Richardson, Edith Evans around you. Studying literature will It’s about camaraderie. You’ll be and Laurence Olivier started their professional lives. make you confjdent, it will make Then there’s Music Theatre Warwick surrounded by people who don’t you question, it will energise and and Opera. Pitch a show to Warwick In Leamington Spa, you’ll fjnd a vibrant performance, poetry and just share your interests. They’ll it will enrage. University Drama Society (WUDS). music scene. In another direction you will fjnd yourself in Stratford- encourage you to take those You’ll get a hearing. And your work upon-Avon, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), its So passion is fundamental to interests further. That’s why so many could take you to the annual three theatres, in-house playwright, and fellow creatives from Ben what we do. It’s why our research of our English students take part in National Student Drama Festival at Jonson (in the sixteenth century) to Marina Carr (in the twenty-fjrst). is ranked top in the UK and clubs or societies. Scarborough and beyond that to But you’re also at the home of the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust why among us we hold the the Edinburgh fringe. Are you interested in new writing (SBT), which manages the performance archives and theatre records highest concentration of awards for the stage (as writer, actor or of the RSC. The SBT’s library and collections constitute one of the for teaching excellence in the producer)? Join Freshblood. You’re free to be as self-contained richest archives in the world: a Shakespeare First Folio, stacks of University. But we’re also focused Are you interested in devised or immersed as you need to be. early printed books, hundreds of prompt books, theatre posters and on encouraging a community that Just remember that friendly, like- theatre? Take a look at Codpiece thousands of production photographs. cares deeply about its studies, minded people are there when Theatre. Or Shakespeare? Head for about the world and about As a Warwick student, you’ll have access to all of this. you need them. Shakespeare Soc. each other. 04 || ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2020/21 warwick.ac.uk/english || 05
BA English Literature (Q300) “This isn’t about A DYNAMIC HOW learning for learning’s sake. NEW CHAPTER YOUR TALE This is about understanding the IN YOUR LIFE BEGINS written word in order to understand the state of the world.” BA English Literature (Q300) In your fjrst year you’ll take four core modules, gaining a grounding in literature from the Our English Literature course provides a guiding ancient past to the present. structure but the rest is up to you. You can choose from an array of modules to suit your academic, You’ll study modern literature and literary theory in Modes of creative, social, and career interests, and take the Reading . In Medieval to Renaissance English Literature , you will direction that’s best for you. Your tutors will be on take in Chaucer, Medieval romance and drama, Sidney, Spenser hand as guides, but you’ll know what motivates and and Shakespeare. excites you. You will encounter traditional epics and novels from different The fjrst year offers you an understanding of literature periods and cultures in Epic into Novel . And you will enjoy from the classical past to the here and now. You’ll be literature and politics from 1790 to the present in Modern World introduced to theoretical and cultural debates about Literatures – though if you’d prefer to learn a modern language how literary critics read texts in a global context by instead, that option is available too. tutors who will prepare you for the rest of your studies. In your second and third year, you will read literature from across the globe—British, American, European, How you’ll learn socially-aware individuals, and World literatures—on modules that focus on the capable of persuasively leading ideas that shape the study of English, from the Teaching and assessment is relaying independent thought, Victorian novel to science fjction, Medieval poetry to distinctive. You’ll write essays, judgement and creativity. the contemporary horror story. deliver presentations and take When you add this to the exams – you might also teach a practical skills you will develop, class of schoolchildren, script a such as the comprehension short fjlm or write a sonata. and critical analysis of a wide range of texts, you’ll be a What you’ll learn formidable player in whatever fjeld or career you want to You’ll learn to think critically progress in. and express that thinking. Our students graduate as 06 || ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2020/21 warwick.ac.uk/english || 07
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