AS Level English Literature (Edexcel) English Literature is a very popular and high performing A-level course at The Downs. Students engage with challenging texts, develop varied skills, and go on each year to attain outstanding results. It is also popular as a degree choice, and in recent years students have been supported to gain entry to top universities, such as Bristol, Durham, Oxford and Cambridge to read English Literature. English Literature helps to develop skills for university and life beyond – such as discussion skills (the ‘engine’ of the subject), study skills (using sources, effective note making), independent learning skills, and essay writing skills. It naturally complements other ‘essay’ subjects. As well as offering consistently ‘red hot’ results, the study of English Literature provides real variety for students, incorporating as it does issues of history, sociology, psychology, ethics, philosophy – and much else besides. In lessons, therefore, we routinely relate the texts to the nature of society at different times, to Freudian views of the personality, or to philosophical questions about the potential gap between a character’s view of the world in a text – and how it really is. When you study English, you study life itself, in every lesson.
Name: AS English Literature Qualification title: GCE AS Level in English Literature Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment coursework & exam Awarding Pearson Education Ltd (Formerly EDEXCEL) Created 20150928 09:27:18 Updated 20161012 11:37:59
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