Programme overview
Location
Cornwall Campus
The department of English at the Cornwall Campus offers a unique student experience, combining a friendly, small-group approach to teaching with top-flight research. The campus offers a welcoming atmosphere where it’s easy to make new friends and where staff and students know each other well. With a smaller student intake, the emphasis is on innovative learning and teaching in a flexible and intimate atmosphere.
Our staff are world leaders in the study of literature and its relationship to place and identity, analysing the construction of identities in relation to a range of issues from technology to the natural environment. This research is an essential element in our undergraduate teaching, with students invited to explore literature from the classical period to the modern, combining the traditional lecture and seminar format with more innovative methods such as the creation of literary trails and problem-based learning.
Through a variety of approaches, both precise and imaginative, you will gain an understanding of the principal genres and range of literatures in English, as well as knowledge of their cultural and critical contexts.
One of the most distinctive features of the English programme at the Cornwall Campus is the focus on the environment. Unique in the country, modules such as Literature and the Environment take you into the cultural landscape of Cornwall and Devon and beyond. In doing so, the programme leads you to ask questions about the relationship between cultural construction and the natural world, as well as encouraging you to think about the broader utility of an English degree beyond the University.
