Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session

B.A. English Literature Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature	09 27043	40	Full Term

Students must choose two modules per semester. Optional modules: Students must choose at least two English Literature modules. Optional modules: A maximum of one module from each of English Literature Blocks A, B, C and D can be chosen. Optional modules: Students who chose to follow a pathway at stage 2 may continue to follow the same pathway at stage 3. Students following a pathway must choose two modules in their chosen pathway at stage 3, one in each semester. Optional modules: Students not following a pathway may choose one Employability module.

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

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

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

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

Employability Modules:

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

Film pathway modules

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice	09 37837	20	Semester 1
LH Children's Film and Television	09 31701	20	Semester 2
LH Film and Television Authorship	09 29109	20	Semester 1
LH Screen Performance	09 35225	20	Semester 1
LH Screenwriting: Film	09 35175	20	Semester 2

Creative Writing modules

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice	09 37837	20	Semester 1
LH Extreme Fictions	09 29731	20	Semester 2
LH Sympathetic Texts	09 30731	20	Semester 2

English Language modules

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond)	09 31802	20	Semester 2
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution	09 32240	20	Semester 2
LH Business Discourse and Communication	09 31805	20	Semester 2
LH Narratives across Media	09 36984	20	Semester 1