Undergraduate degrees in English

2013 Entry Requirements

Our courses are now open and we welcome applications for the 2013-14 academic year. For this year's Entry Requirements, please visit the Entry Requirements page.

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As one of the UK's largest English departments we can offer a wide range of module topics across our degrees. Chaucer's comic tales; film; modern Irish; teaching English to non-English speakers; the use of dialect in songs; creative writing; techniques of theatre production; Renaissance literature; genre; language and power... and many others.

Our 45 academic staff are among the best in the field. They're renowned for innovative research and leading pioneering work with local communities. And they're passionate and dedicated teachers – who believe learning happens when staff and students collaborate.

More about our BA degree programmes

Language & Linguistics | Language & Literature | English Literature
English & Theatre Studies | Theatre & Performance | Dual Honours

Your career

English Literature students will graduate with an impressive array of skills which are prized in many professions. To see what School of English students do after graduating please visit our Careers page.

Meet us and look around

If you're interested in studying at Sheffield, come and meet us at an Open Day. Look around the department and University, see your accommodation, tour the UK's best students' union. There's no better way to get a feel for living and learning in Sheffield.

English students and staff will be around to chat and answer your questions – from employability, studying abroad and tuition fees to South Yorkshire's best spots for rock climbing. We're looking forward to meeting you.

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Sheffield students at work and play

A sense of community: around the department...

For a large department we have a strong sense of community. After lectures and seminars there's always time to chat with staff informally. If you need support with any academic issue, or there's anything else worrying you, your personal tutor will be there to help throughout your time with us.

Or you and other students could join up with your tutors to put on a play, edit a creative writing journal, or visit a theatre or exhibition.

Then sign up with the student-run English Society and enjoy an amazing range of social and cultural events. Poetry readings, pub quizzes, Scrabble contests, football, netball, club nights and city trips away and abroad. It's another way to form friendships and widen your horizons.

Activities and events

...and across the city

Some people see universities as cloistered and closed off from the public. At Sheffield we think universities should get their hands dirty and play an active role in their community. Staff and students from the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics work with people and organisations right across our beautiful city.

We've inspired local schoolchildren with visits from our students and professor of poetry Simon Armitage (pictured below). We run our own festival of music and poetry. We've given a stage to refugee musicians and helped women steelworkers from World War II tell their life stories. Every year there are new events, new ideas, new ways of enriching the life of our city and the study of English literature and language.

Join us and be a part of it. Make your degree mean something special.

Storying Sheffield

Passionate, innovative, forward-looking – that's the School of English at Sheffield. If that's you too, study with us.

What next?

Browse courses in our online prospectus: English literature | English language and linguistics
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