Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session

B.A. English Literature with Drama with Year in Civic Leadership Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

Student Options:

Students taking 80 credits in Drama and 40 credits in English Literature.
All students must take the 40 credit Drama Dissertation AND one Option (of 1-4):
Option 1
• Production Module – semester 1
• One module from English Literature Block C
• One module from English Literature Block D
Option 2
• Production Module – semester 2
• One module from English Literature Block A
• One module from English Literature Block
Option 3
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B • One module from English Literature Block C or Block D Option 4 • One module from Drama Block B • One module from Drama Block C • One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D

Students taking 60 credits in Drama and 60 credits in English Literature (choose from Option 5-10)
Option 5
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block B
• One module from Drama Block C or Block D
Option 6
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
• Production Semester 1
• One module from Drama Block C
Option 7 • English Literature Dissertation • One module from English Literature Block A or Block B • One module from Drama Block A or Block B • One module from Drama Block C • One module from Drama Block D
Option 8
• English Literature Dissertation
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• Production Module – Semester 2
• One module from Drama Block A
Option 9
• Drama Dissertation
• One module from Drama Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from Drama Block C
• One module from Drama Block D
Option 10
• Drama Dissertation
• One module from Drama Block C or Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A • One module from English Literature Block B • One module from English Literature Block C or Block D

Students taking 40 credits in Drama and 80 credits in English Literature. All students must take the 40 credit English Literature Dissertation AND one option (from option 11-14)
Option 11
• One module from Drama Block A
• One module from Drama Block D
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
Option 12
• One module from Drama Block B
• One module from Drama Block C
• One module from English Literature Block A or Block B
• One module from English Literature Block C or Block D
Option 13
• Production Module – Semester 1
• One module from English Literature Block C
• One module from English Literature Block D
Option 14
• Production Module – Semester 2
• One module from English Literature Block A
• One module from English Literature Block B

Core modules:

Optional modules:

Drama Block A:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH 21st Century British Theatre: New Writing	09 29415	20	Semester 1
LH Alexander Technique for Performers	09 27132	20	Semester 1
LH Gender in Theatre and Performance: The Queerest Art	09 29612	20	Semester 1

Drama Block B:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Contemporary Practice	10 27424	20	Semester 1
LH Directing	09 34356	20	Semester 1

Drama Block C

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Popular Music as Performance	09 30684	20	Semester 2
LH Theatre, Philosophy and Emotion	09 30979	20	Semester 2
LH Victorian Drama	09 25042	20	Semester 1

Drama Block D

Production Modules

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Production Module 1	10 21887	40	Semester 1
LH Production Module 2	09 35378	40	Semester 1
LH Production Module 3	09 35379	40	Semester 2
LH Production Module 4	09 35380	40	Semester 2

English Literature Block A:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel	09 30677	20	Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels	09 26673	20	Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context	09 21681	20	Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 1

English Literature Block B:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century	09 29639	20	Semester 1
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books	09 37165	20	Semester 2
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin	09 27598	20	Semester 2
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In	09 37899	20	Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain	09 30727	20	Semester 2
LH Remembering World War One	09 26674	20	Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation	09 32243	20	Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film	09 37091	20	Semester 2

English Literature Block C

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture	09 37089	20	Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets	09 30616	20	Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From	09 30620	20	Semester 2
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art	09 29643	20	Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 1
LH Law and Literature	09 24813	20	Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2

English Literature Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War	09 30646	20	Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy	09 22837	20	Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry	09 29542	20	Semester 2
LH Muslim Women's Popular Fiction	09 31944	20	Semester 2
LH Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century	09 28666	20	Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. Professional Skills Modules: Students taking the Professional Skills Module must also be taking at least 40 credits in English Literature and at least 40 credits in Drama. Professional Skills Modules: It is not permissible to only take the Dissertation in one subject.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Professional Skills	09 36876	20	Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance	09 37013	20	Semester 1