English
The English Papers are taught by both the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of English. The course encourages you to develop your critical and expressive skills to the full, in a rewarding, supportive and challenging intellectual environment. The course is oriented towards reading and understanding literature that is important, not only because of literary achievement, but also because the books bring central cultural issues into challenging focus. Alongside a central focus on British and Irish literary texts and culture, we offer opportunities to study dramatic and performance texts, film and international literature.
Preliminary Examination to Part I
The first year course has two strands; one that explores different aspects of Literary Criticism, developing skills in close reading, while a second strand, shared with students doing English and Drama, focuses on Literature, Drama and Film in a range of historical periods.
Part I
In your second year you can study two or three papers from courses taught in the Faculty of Education:
Film, Culture and Identity Full course programme download here
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Full course programme download here
Drama Production 2 Full course programme download here
or the Faculty of English, whose papers cover literature and its contexts from 1300 to the present day.
Part II
If you choose to study English in your final year, you can take up to two papers. The paper offered by the Faculty of Education is Modern Drama and Theatre
Alternatively you can choose papers offered by the Faculty of English which cover a wide range of topics including Chaucer, Tragedy, and Modernism and the Short Story.
Colleges that offer Education with English
Christ's, Churchill, Clare, Downing, Emmanuel, Fitzwilliam, Gonville and Caius, Homerton, Hughes Hall, Jesus, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, Queens, Robinson, St Edmund's, St John's, Selwyn, and Wolfson.