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University of the Witwatersrand

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English in Language and Culture Studies is offered by University of the Witwatersrand.

Program Length: 2 YEARS.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English offered by the University of the Witwatersrand

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in the field of English is a 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time degree. The curriculum is diverse, including options in Travel Writing, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Postmodern and Postcolonial Literature.

The Department teaches world literature written in English. Our curriculum is not traditional in the mundane sense of the word, but considers the ongoing dialogue between tradition and innovation, and the conversation among European, colonial and postcolonial writers.

Members of the Department are actively engaged in researching various areas of literary study, including South African literature, maritime fiction, Shakespeare and early modern studies, literary theory, jazz and country music, Zimbabwean literature, English in education (multiliteracies and multimodality), postcolonial conflict, travel writing, South African theatre, contemporary American literature and culture, representations of trauma, and authors as diverse as Henry James, Nuruddin Farah, Chinua Achebe, Ivan Vladislavic, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Damon Galgut, Aravind Adiga, Richard Hughes, Kiran Desai, Dave Eggers and Abdulrazak Gurnah.