Distance Learning: The University of London International Programmes - English

Goldsmiths has offered a degree and diploma in English through the University of London International Programmes since 1996. There are over 500 students currently registered with us.

The following programmes are available:

• Diploma in English (four units of study, usually taking 2 or 3 years to complete)
• BA in English (eight units of study, usually taking 3 to 5 years to complete)

The Diploma and BA programmes are closely modelled on the programmes followed by internal students at Goldsmiths in the Department of English and Comparative Literature (ECL). The Department has a thriving research environment embracing traditional and new approaches to English studies, covering a range of interests in British, American and Irish literatures since the 16th century.

Currently, Diploma students follow four foundation units of study.

• Explorations in Literature I (literature from Homer to Shakespeare)
• Explorations in Literature II (literature since Shakespeare)
• Approaches to Text (exploring the methods of literary interpretation)
• Renaissance Comedy: Shakespeare & Jonson

On successful completion of these four units, Diploma students can transfer to the BA programme.

BA students also study the four foundation units listed above, and then select eight optional advanced units from the lists below (at least four units from Group A and at least three units from Group B).

Group A: Period Topics

• Literature of the Later Middle Ages
• Renaissance & Restoration
• Augustans & Romantics
• Victorians
• Moderns

Group B: Special Topics

• Literary Theory: Plato to Pater
• Varieties of Language in Conversation & Literature
• Reading Women’s Writing
• Shakespeare
• The Novel
• Modern American Literature
• 19th-Century American Literature
• Drama Since 1860
• Irish Literature in English from 1800 to the Present Day
• Empire & Literature
• Postcolonial Literatures in English
• Modern Literary Theory
• Romanticism
• Advanced Personal Study

If you would like further information about the University of London International Programme at Goldsmiths please visit our contacts page.

For further information about the University of London External System worldwide please visit the University of London International Programmes' webpages.