English with Secondary Education (QTS), BA (Hons)

Secondary education plays a vital role in students' development, equipping them with essential knowledge and skills for adulthood. As a secondary teacher, you will build specialised subject expertise while fostering pupils' intellectual and personal growth. With high demand for educators, this course ensures a meaningful societal impact. Nottingham Trent University's three-year English with Secondary Education programme enhances your subject knowledge and teaching methods, preparing you for a teaching career. Guided by experts and experienced former teachers, you'll adopt an inclusive approach and gain practical classroom experience through placements in diverse settings.Upon completion, you'll qualify for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) from the Department for Education, enabling you to start as an Early Career Teacher. The curriculum includes core English modules in years one and two, such as literary analysis and digital storytelling, plus optional topics like women's writing and global narratives. In the final year, focus shifts to pedagogical skills and self-reflection for effective teaching. This fast-tracked degree inspires a passion for English and equips you to shape young lives.

In Year One, you will study the following English modules: The Book Group (20 credit points); Reading the Future (20 credit points); Literary Past, Present and Future (20 credit points); Writing in a UNESCO City of Literature (20 credit points); Global Narrative in English (20 credit points); Ways of Reading (20 credit points). In Year Two, you will study a number of English modules, as well as a year long education module which includes a work-based placement. Core modules include: Literary Practices: Writing, Editing, Publishing (20 credit points); Digital Storytelling (20 credit points); Rebel Literatures (20 credit points); Shakespeare and Co (20 credit points); and Learning English: Pedagogy, Progression and Practice (20 credit points). You will also choose from the following optional modules: Women’s writing and Literary Marketplace (20 credit points); Bodies and Minds: Medicine and Psychoanalysis (20 credit points); Ethnicity in American Writing (20 credit points); Black Writing in Britain (20 credit points); Romantic Revolutions (20 credit points); Contemporary Working-Class Writing (20 credit points); Imagining the Sustainable World (20 credit points) and Writing Refugees: The politics of representation (20 credit points) . In the final year of your study, you focus on you developing an in-depth knowledge of the pedagogical skills, assessment requirements and self-reflection required to be a successful Early Career Teacher: Learning to be a teacher; Learning to teach; Learning to teach a subject 1; and Learning to teach a subject 2.