English Literature and TESOL with Foundation Year

The BA (Hons) in English Literature and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) with Foundation Year is the perfect programme if you are fascinated by language and literature and wish to work in the numerous fields that these subjects can inspire, from education to marketing, advertising, librarianship, and more.

You will be supported to study a vibrant, wide-ranging, and innovative curriculum that will facilitate a deepening knowledge and engagement with literatures in English, English language, and language teaching pedagogy. At the same time, you will be developing academic and vocational skills for a career in fields that require high levels of language awareness, excellent written and spoken communication skills, creativity, and analytical and critical skills.

You will study writers from Shakespeare to Bernadine Evaristo and Ali Smith and direct your literary passions through our diverse modules and forms of assessment from creative writing to detective and Gothic fiction, children’s, world, and American literature, from film studies to musical lyrics, Romanticism to Victorian and contemporary literatures in English.

In your studies with an English Language Teaching focus, you will explore language in use, language teaching methods, and key theories of learning and language learning. You will also apply this knowledge by honing your language teaching skills with advice and support from experienced practitioners to prepare you for teaching or non-teaching roles in schools or language schools in England or international contexts.

If you don’t have, or don’t think you will attain, the normal tariff points for studying at BGU, this course will enable you to study for a degree without any UCAS points. The course is delivered over four years and includes a Foundation Year, which gives you a perfect introduction to what it means to be a university student and prepares you for effective undergraduate study. In your Foundation Year, you will study eight modules, all of which are designed to equip you with the necessary academic skills and knowledge to progress successfully in your chosen subject. You will also engage in a series of bespoke subject sessions delivered by experts, designed to introduce you to your chosen subject area.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS