Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. English with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2022/23 Session

The following must be taken:

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

Students without a Creative Practice pathway should choose one Literature Special Subject module from each of blocks A, B, C and D. Students following a Creative Practice pathway should choose one Literature Special Subject module from either block A or B and one Literature Special Subject module from either block C or D in addition to two modules, one per semester, from their chosen pathway. Students may only take a Creative Practice pathway if they have taken that specific pathway at Level I. A list of the pathway modules available will be provided to students during the module allocation process. Creative Practice pathways are available in Creative Writing, Drama, Film and Language. An indicative list of Literature Special Subjects is provided below:

3: 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 Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1

4: 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 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 1
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

5: 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 1
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

6: 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 The Social Life of Literature 09 34875 20 Semester 2

Students who are not following a Creative Practice Pathway may apply to undertake a placement module in their final year. If successful, they will take this module in place of one of their semester 1 options. 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.

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