Venues

Central Campus

Content

Many of the world's most fascinating and influential literary works have been written in English. This programme offers you the opportunity to study the development of the English language through and alongside literature written in English from around the globe.

On this programme, you will cover a wide range of texts and their cultural contexts, from the Middle Ages to the present. Through this engagement, you will build a skillset that is: critical, analytic, linguistic, literary, creative.

You will also deepen your understanding of: the principles of theoretical linguistics; the way we learn language; the regional and social variations of the English language and language in general; and methods of communication.

Entry Requirements

2027 entry requirements

Standard entry:
4 Highers at ABBB (first sitting) or 4 or 5 Highers at AABB/ABBBB (two sittings) including English.

Widening access entry:
4 Highers at ABBB (two sittings) including English. Highers at BBB must be achieved in one sitting.