Undergraduate Foundation Pathway in Humanities, Social Sciences and Education - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - English (with Placement year)

LBIC offers University Foundation Studies for candidates who do not meet the direct entry criteria or hold high school qualifications that are not recognised. Upon successful completion of the pathway programme students will progress onto Brunel University London.

Taking the English BA at Brunel is an opportunity to uncover the richness of English literature history – its periods, genres and diverse storytellers – through a set of underlying themes.

Each students' journey will commence with a module on ‘Reading Resilience’ to help equip them with the required skills and competencies relevant to literary studies, so then can approach any topic with confidence.

After a first year of modules that pass through modern literature and formative texts to help develop students' critical reading, their exploration in English is very much down to their own interests and choices.

In years two and three a wealth of optional modules cover every period and genre from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, postcolonial writing to the women’s movement, with plenty of choice in contemporary and genre fiction like