WJEC Syllabus Summary
AS English Literature
Unit 1: Prose and Drama (closed book)
Written Examination 2 hours
20% of qualification
Section A: Prose fiction pre-1900
Section B: Drama
Unit 2: Poetry (open book, clean copy)
Written examination 2 hours
20% of qualification
Section A: One poem from the poetry text
Section B: Comparing two poems from the two
set texts.
A2 English Literature
Unit 3: Poetry pre-1900 and Unseen Poetry
(open book, clean copy)
Written Examination 2 hours
20% of qualification
Unit 4: Shakespeare (closed book) Written
Examination 2 hours—one question on an extract; one question on the whole text.
20% of qualification
Unit 5: Prose Study Non-examination Assessment one 3500 word task on two prose texts
from different periods, incl. post-2000.
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Why Study English Literature?
Excellent Employment Prospects
English Literature is a flexible and
adaptable subject that opens up a wide
range of career choices.
Graduates in English and
English Literature possess skills
in written and spoken
communication, working
independently and thinking
critically, which are highly
valued by employers.
English graduates perform well as most
other graduate groups in finding employment and seem better at securing
graduate –level jobs.
Personal Satisfaction and
Development
Two years in the Sixth Form and a further
three years at University is a long time to
study something you don’t enjoy. English
students are involved in, challenged and exhilarated by their studies. They enjoy great
opportunities to debate issues in stimulating
ways.
English Literature courses offer opportunities to develop your personal interests and
enthusiasms—especially a love of reading—
as well as time to think about a range of personal, cultural and historical issues.
Study of English Literature is commonly
combined with other Humanity subjects: history, religious studies; it works well with
social sciences such as psychology and sociology; it supports other language studies and
is often the best subject to support further
studies in art and music. It is vital for analytical study in degrees such as law and politics, philosophy and cultural studies.
Set Texts
Jane Austen: ‘Sense and Sensibility’
Charlotte Bronte ‘Jane Eyre’
Elizabeth Gaskell ‘North and South’
Charles Dickens ‘David Copperfield’
Thomas Hardy ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
Christopher Marlowe ‘Doctor Faustus’
Oscar Wilde ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’
Tennessee Williams ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
Caryl Churchill ‘Top Girls’
Joe Orton ‘Loot’
Seamus Heaney ‘Field Work’
Owen Sheers ‘Skirrid Hill’
Philip Larkin ‘The Whitsun Weddings’
Carol Ann Duffy ‘Mean Time’
Chaucer ‘The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale’
John Donne ‘Selected Poems’
John Milton ‘Paradise Lost Book IX’
John Keats ‘Selected Poems’
Christina Rossetti ‘Selected Poems’
Shakespeare ‘King Lear’, ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’, ‘Hamlet’, ‘Henry IV pt 1’, ‘The Tempest’
Recommended further reading
Contrary to popular belief, teaching is not
the main occupation of English graduates!
Many go into general management,
research and consultancy, and the public
services as well as publishing and the
creative industries such as advertising.
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‘Ways of Reading’ Montgomery/Durant/Fabb/Mills Routledge
‘Leading Questions’ Malcolm Peet and David Robinson Nelson
‘Doing English’ Robert Eaglestone -Routledge
‘The Art of Fiction’ David Lodge -Penguin