Information for new undergraduate students

This information is for new undergraduate students who are beginning a degree programme in September 2011 in the School of English and Drama

** Update (12 September 2011): Please note that the preparatory reading list below has now been updated. **

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Welcome Week at Queen Mary starts on Monday 19 September. We need you to come to see us in the School of English and Drama to collect your individual timetable and schedule. Please do this on Monday 19 September at any time between 9.30am and 4pm. We're on the third floor of the ArtsOne building. 

News Flash!! If you're going to be starting our single honours English degree, or our joint honours English and Drama degree, you take a module called ESH101 Shakespeare. In the first week of teaching you’ll attend a lecture on Friday 30 September on Much Ado About Nothing. Then, either at 2pm the same day, or 7.30pm the following day (Saturday night) you must also see the Globe production of the play. You need to buy a ticket for this via the Queen Mary online shop. 180 tickets will be available at £5 for 2pm on Friday 30 September and 40 tickets will be available for 7.30pm on the Saturday. You can collect your ticket by bringing a printed receipt from your online purchase to School Reception on Monday 19 September.

If you’re starting one of our other joint honours English degrees with History, or Film, Linguistics or a language, you can choose whether to take ESH101 Shakespeare. If you do, then the information above about going to the Globe production of Much Ado About Nothing also applies to you. You must buy a ticket from the Queen Mary online shop, and bring your printed receipt to School Reception on Monday 19 September.

If you're doing a joint honours degree with another subject, make sure you visit the website of your other Department or School: School of History, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Department of Drama