BA (Hons) English

English is a vibrant discipline, and at the University of Chichester we offer a diverse curriculum that reflects the range and innovation of our teaching and research.

There is no better way to develop confidence and skill in writing and communication than to study with practising critics, linguists and writers. The English staff at the University have been published across the world and their research has been recognised as being of importance both nationally and internationally. Recent publications by our staff include: Fiona Price’s Revolutions in Taste (Ashgate 2009), Bill Gray’s Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth (Palgrave 2008), Benjamin Noys’s The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press 2010), and a wide range of articles, chapters, and collections.

With the experience and expertise of your tutors, you will explore new kinds of literature and new ways of reading, as well as learning how language works and shapes our lives. You will be given the opportunity to learn about the essential study areas for English, including literary history, language and literary theory. You will also have the chance to explore exciting new research areas, such as fantasy literature, life-writing, postcolonial literature, gothic, and contemporary literature. You will experience innovative critical approaches to literature, including new theories, recent discoveries, and new critical methods. The course also provides considerable choice and flexibility to you as a student to allow you to develop your own degree ‘package’ in the three years (or more if you are part time) that you will study with us.

Students of English at Chichester receive personal attention and support with their studies. During the course you will be taught through lectures and seminars as well as being given the opportunity to have one-to-one tutorials with  experienced academics. This will help you to maximise your potential as a critic and researcher. You will also have the opportunity to spend one or two semesters studying at Canada through our exchange programme, should you wish to.

Students are also enthusiastically invited to experience our a thriving academic culture, which includes the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, and a regular programme of conferences, forums, and events (such as our 2010 conference ‘Shakespeare: Puzzles, Mysteries, Investigations’). The Chichester Literati Society (Chic Lit) also offers a forum for anyone with an interest in literature, creative writing and the visual arts. For more information, visit our Events page and for details of past successes view the Departmental News page. Students will also be able to explore for themselves the extensive cultural resources of Chichester, which boasts the prestigious Festival Theatre and the nationally renowned New Park Film Club.

• At the University of Chichester you will experience a vibrant and active English degree route designed to introduce you to a range of critical approaches to English Literature.
• Your studies will be organised around three main critical areas: Language and Linguistics; Literary History and Literary Criticism; Literary and Critical Theory.
• You will be taught by a staff team of experts in these fields, engaged in research and scholarship.
• You will have the opportunity to develop as a critical reader of literature across the three years of your degree and in the final year have the opportunity to pursue your own research with a research dissertation.
• As an English student, you will be studying a flexible subject that offers both a wide range of employment opportunities and the possibility of continuing to study for a higher degree.

For more information on BA English and all our courses, please visit the Online Prospectus