英文和美国文学（荣誉）文学士学位-包括预科课程

预科课程 如果您的学历尚未达到我们三年制课程的入学要求，并且您想要一个可以提高您学科水平的课程，我们的四年制英语和美国文学学士学位（包括预科课程）将非常适合您。知识，并提高您的学术技能，以支持您的学术表现。该四年制课程包括基础年（零年级），然后再学习三年。在您的零年级期间，您将学习与所选课程相关的三个学术科目以及一个必修的学术技能模块，并且为非英语国家的学生提供额外的英语。
Our four-year BA English and United States Literature (including foundation year), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance.<br><br>This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.<br><br>You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.<br><br>After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies.<br><br>Essex has always been a major centre for American Studies, and our expertise across literature, film, art, history and politics allows you to unravel and understand the complexities of US society and the American dream. You explore nationalism and regionalism, as well as conflicts of race, gender and religion at the heart of US history and culture. Through this you uncover the deep interconnections in the evolution of US writing and American identities.<br><br>Discover the literature of the USA from the early realism of Mark Twain and the slave narrative of Frederick Douglass, through the experimental work of Hemingway and Faulkner, to contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison. You also cover the English literary canon from Shakespeare and his contemporaries through to twentieth-century literature.<br><br>Your reading can take you beyond the US and Britain to the rest of the Americas and Europe, at Essex you dont just study English Literature, you study world literature in English.