English Literature

Course summary

This course encourages learners to develop as critical, autonomous readers with the skills to analyse and evaluate texts from different times and genres. Learners will be expected to read widely and make contributions to class discussion of texts. Over the two years of the course you will study the work of selected poets from both pre-1900 and post-1900. Along with the study of prose fiction novels taken from pre-andpost 2000. Drama texts will include Jacobean and modern 20th century drama, along with extracts from a wide variety of prose fiction and poetry.