BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Canterbury, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 18,600 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Explore the richness and diversity of English Literature from a wide range of periods, cultures, and genres. Strengthen your skills, develop your specialism and expand your critical and theoretical knowledge.
Immerse yourself in your chosen topics and create a bespoke course that suits your interests.
Why study English and American Literature with us
- Cutting-edge literary and theoretical study: You’ll work alongside world-leading researchers with expertise ranging from the medieval to the contemporary
- Teaching new literature and new theories: Explore diverse topics such as new modernist studies, Indigenous literature and decolonial knowledge, global writing and the environment, and the new Brexit novel.
- Make your voice heard: be at the forefront of debate in our lively, confident, and engaged research community
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
We have a range of subject-specific awards and scholarships for academic, sporting and musical achievement.
Curriculum
Stage 1
Advanced Research in Literary Studies
Stage 2
Dissertation: GPMS
Program Outcome
Programme aims
This programme aims to:
- extend and deepen through coursework and research your understanding of a body of literature in English, with special emphasis on modern and postcolonial literature, and literary and critical theory
- enable you to develop a historical awareness of literary traditions
- develop your independent critical thinking and judgement
- introduce you to bibliographic methods and scholarship and foster in you the research methods that facilitate advanced literary study
- provide a basis in knowledge and skills if you intend to teach English and American literature, especially in higher education
- develop your understanding and critical appreciation of the expressive resources of language
- offer opportunities for you to develop your potential for creative writing (where such a module is taken)
- offer scope for the study of literature within an interdisciplinary context, notably that provided by history
- develop your ability to argue a point of view with clarity and cogency, both orally and in written form.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
You will gain knowledge and understanding of:
- authors and texts from British, American and postcolonial literature
- the principal literary genres, fiction, poetry drama and other kinds of writing and communication
- literatures in English from countries outside Britain and America
- traditions in literary criticism
- the challenges of creative writing (where such a module is taken)
- terminology used in literary criticism
- the cultural and historical contexts in which literature is written, published and read
- critical theory and its applications
- literary criticism as a practice subject to considerable variation of approach
- inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to the advanced study of literature
- research methods.
Intellectual skills
You develop intellectual skills in:
- the application of the skills needed for advanced academic study and enquiry
- the evaluation of research findings
- the ability to synthesise information from several sources to gain a coherent understanding of theory and practice
- the ability to make discriminations and selections of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge
- the exercise of problem-solving skills.
Subject-specific skills
You gain subject-specific skills in:
- enhanced skills in the close critical analysis of literary texts
- informed critical understanding of the variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of literature
- the ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to advanced English studies
- sensitivity to generic conventions in the study of literature
- well-developed linguistic resourcefulness, including a grasp of standard critical terminology
- articulate responsiveness to literary language
- appropriate scholarly practice in the presentation of formal written work, in particular in bibliographic and annotation practices
- an understanding of how cultural norms and assumptions influence questions of judgment.
Transferable skills
You will gain the following transferable skills:
- developed powers of communication and the capacity to argue a point of view orally and in written form, with clarity, organisation and cogency
- enhanced confidence in the efficient presentation of ideas designed to stimulate critical debate
- developed critical acumen
- the ability to assimilate and organise substantial quantities of complex information
- competence in the planning and execution of essays and project work
- enhanced skills in creative writing (where the relevant module has been taken)
- the capacity for independent thought reasoned judgement, and self-criticism
- enhanced skills in collaborative intellectual work
- the ability to understand, interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical positions and weigh the importance of alternative perspectives
- research skills, including scholarly information retrieval skills
- IT skills: word-processing, the ability to access electronic data.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching; as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.
Program delivery
How you'll study
Teaching and assessment
Assessment is by a 5000-word essay for each module and a 15,000-word dissertation.