Prep courses
All prep courses can lead to either English 201 or English 202. Direst ambition An investigation into the nature of ambition – from Shakespeare's dire warnings to Andrew Niccol's optimistic exhortations. We find that literature across the last four centuries has a lot to teach us about our fundamental human nature. Prepare to feel discomfort. Alternative reality No sooner do we learn the rules of storytelling: the value of a linear plot, a heroic character and a believable setting – and we find it all upended by authors and directors who ask us to look at the familiar from a new, distorted point of view. This course will bend your mind. In darkness and in light Gothic fiction as a response to The Enlightenment. An exploration of this genre in terms of style – how literature shines a light, or casts a shadow, on the ideas of its time.
Love and paradox What does the world's greatest love story have to teach us about Fate? Select this course and find out how, coded into his robust play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare offers us a chance to examine one of humanity's greatest mysteries: is there such a thing as free will? Text types: Shakespearian drama and film Recommended for everyone who wants to accelerate their learning in English. The sun never sets How did writers respond to a world transformed by industry, science and empire? From charging guns to changing society, the literature of the Victorian era expresses the writers’ hopes, ambitions and confidence of a civilisation at its height, while revealing their doubts about a rapidly shifting world. Explore ideas of duty, honour, social responsibility and morality through some ot the most enduring texts of English literature. Text types: poetry and prose. Recommended for students who like history, classic literature and ideas that shaped the world.
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