Programme Requirements for 2020/21 Session


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B.A. English Full-time

Year: 2
2020/21 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 33587 10 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 33588 10 Semester 2

Students without a pathway should choose one module from each of the Histories of Literature lists A, B, C and D.

Students following a pathway should choose either one module from each of lists A and D or one module from each of lists B and C.

The modules listed are indicative of what may be available.

LIST A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Critical Encounters with Medieval Popular Literature 09 36224 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Poetry 09 36225 20 Semester 2

LIST B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 2

LIST C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 1

LIST D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 2

20 credits from the Themes in Literature list. The modules listed below are indicative of what may be available.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A 09 33252 10 Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B 09 33254 10 Semester 2
LI Digital Futures A 09 33258 10 Semester 1
LI Digital Futures B 09 33260 10 Semester 2
LI Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies A 09 33262 10 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies B 09 33264 10 Semester 2
LI Public and Enterprising English A 09 36231 10 Semester 1
LI Public and Enterprising English B 09 36232 10 Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture A 09 33266 10 Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture B 09 33268 10 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare's Sisters A 09 33270 10 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare's Sisters B 09 33272 10 Semester 2
LI The Gothic A 09 33274 10 Semester 1
LI The Gothic B 09 33277 10 Semester 2
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning A 09 33589 10 Semester 1
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning B 09 33590 10 Semester 2
LI Tragedy A 09 33279 10 Semester 1
LI Tragedy B 09 33281 10 Semester 2

Students should choose two modules from those available in the appropriate major. Indicative modules are listed below:

Drama:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Performance Text Workshop 10 29008 20 Semester 1
LI Popular Performance 09 25150 20 Semester 2

Creative Writing:

Film Studies:

English Language:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Discourse Analysis 09 27753 20 Semester 2
LI Language Acquisition and Literacy 09 26651 20 Semester 1
LI Psycholinguistics 09 27523 20 Semester 1
LI Semantics and Pragmatics 09 30668 20 Semester 1
LI Sociolinguistics 09 26680 20 Semester 2