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Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English and Creative Writing with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

Students should choose one of the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Creative Writing Project 09 20340 40 Full Term
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term

Students should choose 80 credits from those modules available in the English and Creative Writing Special Subjects. A maximum of 80 credits may be taken in a single discipline (including independent study). The modules listed below are indicative of what may be available.
A minimum of 20 credits of Special Subjects must be taken in It is not possible to take more than one English Special Subject from a particular block. Indicative lists of modules are provided below.

Creative Writing Special Subjects:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adaptation: Theory and Practice 09 37837 20 Semester 1
LH Creative Non Fiction 09 29732 20 Semester 1
LH Poetry Film 09 39922 20 Semester 2
LH Screenwriting: Film 09 35175 20 Semester 2
LH Sympathetic Texts 09 30731 20 Semester 2
LH The Hatred of Poetry 09 29730 20 Semester 1

English Literature Special Subjects
Block A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1

English Literature Special Subject
Black B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Literature at Sea: 1851 to present 09 30632 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 09 32236 20 Semester 1
LH Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions 09 27596 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Afterlives 09 24790 20 Semester 1
LH Writing/Painting 09 37839 20 Semester 1

English Literature Special Subjects
Block C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction 09 39772 20 Semester 2
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing 09 39959 20 Semester 2
LH The Pre-Raphaelite Circle 09 27755 20 Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects
Block D

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Chaucer: Key Works 09 38956 20 Semester 2
LH Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession 09 39133 20 Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700 09 37352 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at Level I. If successful, this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be agreed with the programme convenor. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Professional Skills 09 36839 20 Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance 09 37012 20 Semester 1