English Literature

About this programme

Would you like to explore the biggest questions and ideas that have inspired writers and thinkers across the centuries? Study English Literature at Oxford Brookes, and you will examine critical moments and movements in culture and society. English Literature (with Foundation Year) is a unique integrated degree programme, enabling you to develop academic skills crucial to university study, such as critical analysis, academic writing and collaboration. We'll support you as you grow your confidence, get to know your strengths and build your knowledge. In your first year, you will undertake our Humanities Foundation course. You'll then progress to the three year undergraduate course in English Literature, with an opportunity to do an optional study abroad or work placement as an additional year. With the diverse experience and skills you'll gain, you'll be fully prepared for a career in a variety of sectors. Build essential study skills with an integrated foundation year. Gain academic confidence, improve critical thinking, and strengthen subject knowledge for your degree journey. Our academic staff are respected in their fields, publishing research that influences thought around the world. Literature is a big field, and we’ll help you find your niche within it, whether you’re interested in Victorian literature, women and modernism, or literature and madness. Our university-wide language programme is available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.