Middlesex University, BA (Hons), Education Studies with English Literature

Year 1: The course starts by developing the student’s core skills and knowledge of educational practice and of literature; students focus on close reading of a number of contemporary texts in their literary studies and the historical and contemporary approaches to education policy and practice, and the psychological approaches to learning; the modules are as follows: critical reading; education policy: historical and contemporary perspectives; psychological approaches to learning; travelling genres. Year 2: this year enables the student to explore the development of English literature; the student acquires a broad base of knowledge; modules include: education and equality; literature in the long 19th-Century; 20th-Century literature: modernity to the present; comparative education and related issues (optional); curriculum studies Key Stage 2 and beyond (optional); special needs, disability and inclusion (optional); working and researching in organisations 1 (optional). Year 3: in this year the student investigates more specialised topics; all the modules are optional and are as follows: children's literature; children's rights; disaffection and counselling in education; education rights and the law; gender, violence and the post-modern; literature and otherness: empires and animals, 1880 to the present; proposition module; proposition module; Shakespeare and renaissance drama; working and researching in organisations 2.