Programme Requirements for 2021/22 Session


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B.A. American and Canadian Studies and English Full-time

Year: 3
2021/22 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Joint Honours Extended Essay 09 20586 20 Full Term

Students should choose 40 credits from the optional modules available. An indicative list is provided below.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Cold War Film (LH) 09 14980 20 Semester 2
LH African American Freedom: 20th Century Literature and Visual Culture 09 29112 20 Semester 2
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century 09 29639 20 Semester 1
LH Film and Television Authorship 09 29109 20 Semester 1
LH Give me Liberty! The Meaning of Freedom in American History, 1776-1900 09 28982 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH PoMo Historical Fictions 09 27046 20 Semester 2
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

English Literature Pathway:
Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) Dissertation in English Literature (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Literature must study Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme)
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.

It is not possible to take more than one English Literature Special Subject from a particular block.

Indicative lists of modules are provided below.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Extended Essay in English Literature 09 27042 20 Full Term

English Literature Special Subjects

Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Mapping the Middle Ages: Cultural Encounters in the Medieval East and West 09 29594 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction 09 30637 20 Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context 09 21681 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1
LH The End of Life As We Know It: The Implications of Digital Technology 09 30688 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 1
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 1
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 1

Block C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH African American Freedom: 20th Century Literature and Visual Culture 09 29112 20 Semester 2
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 2
LH Hidden Romanticism 09 36982 20 Semester 2
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 Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives 09 37007 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 2
LH The Social Life of Literature 09 34875 20 Semester 2

English Language Pathway

Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Dissertation (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme.)

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Language can study

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.
(b) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme).

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

English Language optional modules

An indicative list of optional modules available is provided below:

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 Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 1
LH Business Discourse and Communication 09 31805 20 Semester 1
LH Clinical Linguistics 09 28696 20 Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1
LM Organisational and Personal Development 09 36894 20 Semester 2

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 placement 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.

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