Literature and Languages
Undergraduate Applicants
No Exams
The English Degree is achieved through modular units and periodic assessment, rather than leaving it all to a final-year 'big bang' examination.
Over your four years with us, you will write essays rather than sit exams, each essay returned with detailed comments for further thought and discussion. Your final degree classification is based on the written work you have done over the last two years of the course.
Clear thinking and writing are among the most important skills you will gain whilst studying English at Stirling. Our methods of assessment are designed to foster your ability to construct a solid and persuasive argument, and to effectively express your point of view.
Students often have the option of responding imaginatively to essay assignments. For example, you might have the choice of re-writing a section of a novel or poem from the perspective of another characer, or in a radically different style. You would then spend the remainder of your essay comparing the effect of your writing to that of the original, or analysing the linguistic choices reflected by the two texts. This is a creative and challenging way of enriching your understanding of how writing works.