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English Language

English Academy

Enrichment Overview

This enrichment is open to all students of A level English Language or A level English Literature. Students participate in seminars on a range of literature and language topics with members of the English Department and academics from several universities, attend a Royal Shakespeare Company production if possible, and study for an Extended Project Qualification.

This enrichment offers students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of English beyond the A level curriculum. The topics covered by the seminar programme in recent years included Anglo-Saxon literature, Caribbean Gothic literature, Golden Age detective fiction, Gothic literature, nineteenth-century novels, Shakespeare’s contemporaries, and the literature of surveillance. The students also attended a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “All’s Well That Ends Well”. It also offers students the opportunity to study for an Extended Project Qualification supervised by a member of the English Department.

All of Year 12.

One lesson, plus your own independent study time for the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

If students attend a Royal Shakespeare Company production, approximately £25 towards the cost of transport and tickets.

Any student of A level English Language or A level English Literature.

At enrolment. It is not possible to do another enrichment alongside this.