Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English Language and Literature Full-time

Year: 3
2024/25 Session

Students should choose 40 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature 09 27043 40 Full Term
LH Extended Essay in English Literature 09 27042 20 Full Term
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Semester 2

Students should choose 40 credits from the English Language Special Subjects list and 40 credits from the English Literature Special Subjects list. Indicative lists are provided below.

English Literature:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 2
LH Chaucer: Key Works 09 38956 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 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 Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 1
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction 09 39772 20 Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing 09 39959 20 Semester 2
LH Literature at Sea: 1851 to present 09 30632 20 Semester 1
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 2
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 Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2
LH The Art of Translation 09 32243 20 Semester 1
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700 09 37352 20 Semester 2
LH The Pre-Raphaelite Circle 09 27755 20 Semester 2
LH Writing/Painting 09 37839 20 Semester 1

English Language:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 2
LH Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 2
LH Clinical Linguistics 09 28696 20 Semester 1
LH English Language Teaching 09 19606 20 Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Language and the Mind 09 26649 20 Semester 2
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1

Students may apply to undertake a placement 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